[Peace-discuss] Democracy Now! & the Israel Lobby

[Morton K. Brussel]

Incidentally, Bob McChesney has had Rothschild on his Sunday show,  
and Rothschild was here on campus last year.  Too bad we didn't know  
about all this at the time and brought the topic up. .


On Feb 14, 2008, at 1:25 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> [Matthew Rothschild, editor of "The Progressive" [sic], appeared on  
> DN! on Tuesday, and what was amazing was what wasn't said.  Two  
> letters on the subject below. --CGE]
>
>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:19:30 -0800
> From: ehtesham74[at]yahoo.com
> Subject: On Matthew Rothschild
> To: amy[at]democracynow.org
> CC: normangf[at]hotmail.com
>
> Dear Amy,
>
> I was both amazed and amused to see Matthew Rothschild on your show  
> on Monday, February 11. Amazed because this is the same Matthew  
> Rothschild who, supporting his fellow editor Ruth Conniff of The  
> "Progressive", called Professor Norman Finkelstein a Holocaust  
> denier and an anti-Semite. Amused because he practically joined the  
> campaign to suppress Norman his right to tenure and yet he writes a  
> book titled "You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of  
> Repression."
>
> So called liberals like him have their "Progressive" magazines to  
> vent their hypocrisies. But now they are asked to appear on DN too?  
> If you want to find out what this guy really said about Norman, you  
> can follow the link below and see for yourself. I just don't feel  
> like regurgitating the filth he spewed.
>
> All the best,
>
> Ehtesham.
> Ottawa, Canada.
>
> Link to Rothschild's lies:
>
> http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=67
> * * * * *
>
>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:06:45 -0800
> Subject: Matthew Rothschild on today's DN!
> To: amy[at]democracynow.org
> CC: normangf[at]hotmail.com; aaron[at]democracynow.org
>
> Dear Amy,
>
> I'm a little confused by your segment with Matthew Rothschild on  
> Democracy NOW! today. Were you not aware that he helped destroy the  
> academic career of Norman Finkelstein?
>
> Rothschild has agreed with statements made by others that label  
> Finkelstein a "Holocaust denier," and Raul Hilberg and  
> Finkelstien's late mother "Holocaust minimizers" (http:// 
> www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=67).
>
> In spite of his "twenty-eight years" as an editor, he participated  
> in the Alan Dershowitz/David Horowitz (FrontPageMag.com) smear  
> campaign against Norman Finkelstien which resulted in Finkelstein's  
> denial of Tenure at DePaul
> (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1070).
>
> When Finkelstein requested that Rothchild provide evidence to  
> support these claims, Rothschild emailed him the same out-of- 
> context quotes used by Dershowitz to carry out what Noam Chomsky  
> called, on YOUR SHOW (April 17, 2007), a "jihad" against Norman  
> Finkelstein. In his response to Finkelstein's request Rothschild  
> stated that he carefully checked the facts before writing the letter
> (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=3&ar=67).
>
> After Rothschild helped destroy the academic career of Norman  
> Finkelstein he sat there on your show and said things like "it's  
> really frightening what's happening to our democracy here, Amy."
>
> I guess, it's possible for someone like him to be right about the  
> civil liberties issue of the public at large and wrong about other,  
> more specific issues of liberty of speech, but I feel like you  
> didn't do your job as a journalist -- you didn't question him about  
> it. I've come to expect more from you.
>
> I realize that you're busy organizing a Gala with Willie Nelson and  
> Danny Glover, but it'd be nice if you guys didn't do that at the  
> expense of the research you do for shows.
>
> Since you demanded of Lou Dobbs (December 04, 2007) to pay more  
> attention to whom he's quoting on his show, I think it's only fair  
> for you to have to pay attention to whom you're quoting on your own  
> show. Rothschild didn't bother doing so in the case of  
> Finkelstein's tenure, but I expect more from a reputable journalist  
> such as yourself.
>
> Thanks for doing what you're doing and I hope stuff like this won't  
> continue to happen on your show,
>
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