The new isolationist Republicans are now cleaning house…..
How I Got Dumped for Criticizing Coulter

By Alex Knepper

Two days ago, I was unceremoniously removed from the roster of David Horowitz’s newsrealblog.com. The reason, which wasn’t exactly surprising to friends or colleagues, was that I wasn’t enough of a “team player” — that is: that I brought down as much wrath on conservatives as I did on liberals. That didn’t fit with the blog’s mission. Horowitz is not interested in posts that take Ann Coulter to task over the war in Afghanistan, for instance.

Two days ago, I submitted to NewsRealBlog a lengthier version of a blurb about Coulter’s newfound opposition to the war written for FrumForum. My rationale for the piece was simply that Horowitz — and by extension his team and blog — is among the more ardent supporters of the war effort, and that it would be a timely piece that fit our niche. The site’s editor took a look at it and told me that he’d have to personally run it by David Horowitz, since the blog is allied with Ann.

I received an e-mail a couple of hours later: “Sorry…we’re going to have to pass on your Coulter piece…[Y]ou finally did it with [David Horowitz]. He doesn’t want you blogging for us anymore.”

More thought from David Frum…..
David Horowitz’s Own Unholy Alliances

David Horowitz has been a fierce – ferocious! – critic of Western leftists who opposed the wars in Afghanstan and Iraq. In 2004, Horowitz published a whole book accusing the left of being joined to the Islamist cause. He dedicated the book “To the brave young men and women risking their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq for ours.”

And when some voices on the right began to join those left-wing critics of the war, Horowitz denounced those far-right isolationists as well. In a 2007 interview he called Congressman Ron Paul a “disgrace” and in the years since the two men and their admirers have exchanged heated words.

But in recent months, the ideas of the Ron Paul movement have begun to percolate through the more mainstream conservative world. Ron Paul has become a favored guest on the Glenn Beck program. And now Coulter too is giving voice to Paul-ist themes.

This trend has presented Horowitz with a problem.
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Now Knepper’s criticism of Ann Coulter – in exactly the same terms as David Horowitz himself was using only a few months ago – has got Knepper bounced from Horowitz’s NewsReal blog altogether.

There’s beginning to be a pattern here.