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Real History and Censorship by its Traditional Enemies The index to this Lipstadtscandal your Deborah Lipstadt index your Lipstadt Trial index [images and captions added by this website] The New York Sun Wednesday, April 6, 2005 C-Span Off Balance By Deborah E. Lipstadt Photo: Lipstadt, a Yappy little Jewess with an obsession C-SPAN and I must occupy different planets and speak different languages. But more on that in a moment.

Let me start by saying that “Book TV” is a national treasure. The only thing wrong with “Book TV,” the 48 hours that C-Span devotes to serious discussion of non-fiction books, is that it does not run all week. This is especially true today, as most TV news networks are more interested in infotainment. With wall-to-wall coverage of Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Scott Peterson, we need C-Span more than ever.

I cannot, however, figure out what they were thinking when it came time to cover my book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving.” First of all, as readers of this page already know, after inviting me to appear on the show they insisted on giving Holocaust denier David Irving a slot parallel to mine, in order to “balance” my presentation. I told them that I did not debate deniers and that, by putting us