05/10/2013
Someone named Jamelle Bouie at The Daily Beast has committed a gross and outrageous libel against me:
Last year, National Review fired two writers, John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg, over racist rhetoric, and in the case of Weissberg, ties to a white supremacist organization. But that rhetoric wasn’t as unusual as you might image. It’s not at all hard to find examples of conservative figures — politicians, activists, writers — who have had to apologize for racist remarks. Last year, for example, the president of the North Carolina-based Locke Foundation had to apologize for posting a graphic of President Obama eating fried chicken.
I attempted to respond in an appropriate fashion to this scurrilous innuendo, but could not be bothered to navigate The Daily Beast’s comment sign-in procedure. I shall therefore post my comment here instead.
Editor
The Daily BeastSir:
I very much resent your writer Jamelle Bouie yoking me in the same paragraph with "conservative figures — politicians, activists, writers — who have had to apologize for racist remarks."
I have never apologized for my own remarks, which no doubt are indeed racist on current definitions — what isn’t?
Nor would I ever grovel to the preening, lying, innumerate, smug hypocrites of political correctness, however much of the public discourse they control. A pox on them all!
To associate me in this way with cowards, grovelers, ninnies, office-seekers, careerist triangulators, and bogus "conservatives" is a foul libel on my character.
Please publish a retraction, prominently placed, at your earliest convenience.
Yrs. etc.,
John Derbyshire
I and my attorneys anticipate a speedy response.
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