Horowitz flip-flops, decides Obama's a Manchurian candidate after all

September 14, 2009 5:35 pm ET by Terry Krepel

On June 2, David Horowitz wrote a post on his FrontPageMag blog denouncing inflammatory anti-Obama rhetoric, such as claiming that President Obama wants to take advantage of a "Reichstag fire" type of incident to "terminate our Republic as Hitler did the Weimar Republic in the 1930s" (as WorldNetDaily's David Kupelian had claimed the day before). Horowitz wrote: "Obama is a machine politician and whatever dangers he represents (and as I see it there are many) are dangers because they reflect the heart and soul of today's Democratic Party, not because he is a Manchurian candidate or a closet Islamist, as more than a few conservatives seem to think."

How times change. A Sept. 11 FrontPageMag article by Horowitz carries the headline "The Manchurian Candidate." The front page of FrontPageMag promoted the article with this image:

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So when does Horowitz start touting the "new Reichstag fire"?

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- by mk3872 (September 14, 2009 5:41 pm ET)
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  Has a single politician ever created so much fear, uncertainty and hate from conservatives before in U.S. history?
  
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  - by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 15, 2009 9:44 am ET)
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    Yes. FDR.
    
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    - by mk3872 (September 15, 2009 12:06 pm ET)
      
      Was he from Kenya, too?
      
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- by bintx (September 14, 2009 5:59 pm ET)
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  It's simply because he's black and he has a funny name. He's an easy target for the low information voter . . . he looks like a "furriner" and he's got a "furrin" name; therefore, he's GOTTA be bad for the country. Never mind the fact that his policies are actually pretty moderate. It's ridiculous.
  
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- by National_Insecurity (September 14, 2009 10:27 pm ET)
  
  They keep trying different lines to find one that resonates.
  
  You have to be pretty old (over 55?) to even know the reference to The Manchurian Candidate.
  
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- by pbrauer (September 14, 2009 10:53 pm ET)
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  David Horowitz was once a radical Marxist, he hasn't really changed, he is just as radical in the opposite direction. How anyone could call him "conservative" is beyond me.
  
  Thom Hartmann had Horowitz on his show today and exposed him for what he really is.
  
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