David
Irving bashes Internet for telling the truth
Date:
13 Sep 1996 Organization:
Unaffiliated Fans of Nizkor,
http://www.nizkor.org/ Rich
Graves wrote: At a sparsely attended appearance in
Oakland this evening, David Irving, author
of a number of critically panned books
attempting to exonerate the Nazi leadership for war
crimes, blamed "the traditional enemy," "powerful
organized groups," and "a secret conspiracy" (none
of which he would name, or give specifics about)
for his unpopularity as a writer, but he reserved
special scorn for the Internet, described as "a
cesspool."
Please quote at least the entire sentence in which
David describes the internet as a
cesspool. I am
sending Mr. Irving a letter seeking confirmation of
several quotes. I believe he used the word
"cesspool" in relation to the Internet at least
twice, and he did not object when I queried him
with the premise that he had so characterized
it. I
tried my best to get a copy of the audiotape
Irving's friends were making of the event, so that
I could verify my notes -- I told them price was no
object -- but they just gave me the runaround.
Perhaps you could call Aftab and try to
negotiate. Mr.
Irving, in the context of describing his lifelong
dedication to studying the Nazi era in a
sympathetic light, and his efforts to get himself
taken seriously, suggested, presumably without
intended irony, that Jamie McCarthy, a
Macintosh and web programmer who webmasters for the
Nizkor Project part-time on a volunteer basis,
should "get over his obsession and find something
better to do with his life" and stop writing
"garbage" such as the letters posted to
http://www.nizkor.org/people/i/irving-david/correspondence/
I
still haven't seen anything unreasonable, or even
inaccurate, in Irving's Oakland speech so
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