Today’s Daily Schadenfreude: David Horowitz, WATB

Q: If you write a book and no one wants to hear you talk about it, do you make a sound?

A: You do if you’re whiny ass titty baby David Horowitz.

Horowitz (right), the formerly-liberal-now-batshit-crazy-wingnutty creator of Islamofascism Awareness Week (now there’s an event just crying out for Hallmark), is beside himself because people don’t want to hear his pearls of wisdom.

“I’m a prominent conservative but no one is inviting me to speak at their campuses,” Horowitz said in an interview with The Hatchet. “I had to create an event.”

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week has been criticized as being unfairly anti-Muslim, and debate ignited at GW three weeks ago when several students hung controversial posters mocking YAF and the event. The posters garnered local and national media attention and were featured on Fox News.

Horowitz was formerly a Marxist and a 1960s liberal but is now conservative. Some of his writings include the book “Unholy Alliance,” which alleges a pact between radical Islamists and American liberals. Another book, “The Professors,” details anti-American academics across the country.

He was last on campus in April 2006, when he debated ethics professor Ward Churchill – one of those listed in the book.

“There’s always a small community of self-righteous radicals who don’t want to hear what the other side has to say,” Horowitz said.

Yo, Dave, put down the Xanax and listen up for a second. The reason no one is inviting you to their campuses is because no one gives a shit about what you have to say. No one, that is, except the drooling, mouth-breathing fanatics who jerk off to pictures of Joe Lieberman in body armor and think Ann Coulter is hot a woman. And “self-righteous radicals?” Don’t make me laugh. Your hero Drunky McStagger sure does a hell of a job listening to the other side, right? Please.

How utterly sad is it that you wrote a book and, because you’re faced with a rousing round of indifference rather than the anticipated (for your bloated ego, anyway) flowers and praise, you have to invent a reason to be recognized? Jeebus, man, you’re taking narcissism to a whole new level.

Maybe people — I mean, normal people, with brains — don’t want to hear you, Dave, because your views are deplorable, radical, and racist:

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week speakers – which include author Ann Coulter and former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum at other schools – have met protests at many colleges in the past week.

Coulter required 15 police officers and personal security to control the crowd of 1,500 people at Tulane University Monday, according to the Washington Times.

That same night, Horowitz was met with some hostility at the University of Wisconsin, according to the Daily Cardinal – the student newspaper. Close to 75 students protested before, during and after Horowitz’s speech.

Horowitz said students were “relatively polite” during his speech but it “became obvious” a number of his opponents were in the audience during the question and answer session.

Adam Kokesh, a graduate student and Iraq veteran, was one of the students responsible for the posters. Kokesh gained celebrity in the past year for vocally opposing the war. He said Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is meant to “dehumanize the enemy.”

“It’s a subtle form of racism that’s inevitable when we go to war with people who are ethnically different from us,” Kokesh said.

Clutch those pearls of wisdom a little harder, Dave, and get ready for the ugly truth: when it comes to your book and your wankfest over “Islamofascism,” nobody gives a fuck. No sentient being capable of more than the most rudimentary bodily functions, that is.

So, you just whine away, Horowitz, while the rest of the world moves forward without you. What a loser. What a whiny ass titty baby. What a worthy recipient of today’s Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude, which, David Horowitz, is for you!

Will the real Steny Hoyer please stand up?

Last week, I was unreservedly critical of the choice to bring House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to Orlando as keynote speaker for this weekend’s Florida Democratic Party convention. Like the rest of the Congressional leadership, Rep. Hoyer in my opinion has been conspicuously prone to rolling over and letting the minority Republicans have their way. So, I chose to stay home and not give the impression that I approve, even tacitly, of Rep. Hoyer’s appearance.

However, yesterday Rep. Hoyer spoke at Georgetown University Law Center in D.C. and said some rather, well, intemperate things … surprisingly so, given the source. To wit:

Here’s the text of the speech, and some of what he had to say; I’m leaving out the terra-terra-terra ass-covering boilerplate to focus on what’s new:

We also swear an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, and to honor the values and principles that are contained therein for example, the Fourth Amendment right that Americans be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and the Fifth Amendment right to due process of law.

Honoring the system of checks and balances carefully established by the Framers of our Constitution will make us more, not less, safe. This was the conclusion of those men in 1789 who had just fought a war, and who faced a very uncertain and dangerous future.

[Here follows a long list of abuses and usurpations; essentially, the same critique we’ve been developing on torture, surveillance, the rule of law, abuse of power, et cetera, et cetera.]

Nor have we helped our cause by dispensing with centuries-old legal concepts such as habeas corpus. And, the Administration s penchant for presidential signing statements that assert a right of the President to effectively ignore all or part of the laws he signs must give all of us pause.

It is long past time for effective Congressional oversight and Judicial review of this Administration’s actions.

And now comes something I personally find amazing:

Hoyer quotes Federalist 47, the same passage we’ve been hammering on for years. (Mainstreaming is hard work! Our hair has been on fire about Federalist 47 since 2005 (here, here, here, and here).

As our fourth President James Madison, wrote in Federalist Paper Number 47 more than 200 years ago: ’The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.’

Whoa. That’s not the Steny Hoyer I’ve come to know and love disdain. Why, this guy sounds almost Beale-esque in his righteous anger! Where did this come from?

Unfortunately, I’ve already made plans for this weekend and can’t be in Orlando. But I’m not ready to jump on the Steny bandwagon just yet. Why, in just the last few weeks we’ve heard loads of similar rhetoric from Harry Reid, Pete Stark, and others, only to be left wanting like Jenna Bush when the keg runs dry.

So, good on ya, Steny, for speaking truth to power. Now will your actions back up your words? I’ll be watching …

Florida Netroots Awards: reminder to vote

If you haven’t already done so, please make sure to cast your votes for the first annual Florida Netroots Awards. The deadline is tomorrow (Friday 10/26) at 12 noon Eastern time.

Please note that you must send your votes by e-mail to quinnelk@hotmail.com. Several people have told me they’ve had trouble figuring out the voting procedure, but that’s because they’re skipping the first paragraph and expecting to see some web-based voting system. It’s being done the old-fashioned way this year. Hey, at least if you print out your sent e-mail, you’ve got a paper trail!