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Article: Democrats need to win patriot game Todd Gitlin believes the American left must win back the flag in order to reclaim power
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- April 16, 2006
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ACCORDING to David Horowitz, a "rightwing firebrand" (copyright
The Guardian), Todd Gitlin is a spewer of violent antiAmerican
propaganda and a preacher of anti-Semitism, who cheers on the killing
of American soldiers and civilians. "Coming to a campus near you",
shrieks the blurb of Horowitz's book, The Professors: The 101 Most
Dangerous Academics In America, "terrorists, racists and communists."
Given such a purple introduction, Gitlin, a professor of
journalism and sociology at Columbia University, cuts a rather
conservative figure in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt, one of those
vertiginous, ostentatious Manhattan hotels built to order for a 20th
century pharoah.
Bearded and dressed ...