Chronicle coverage of speech biased
By David Horowitz | April 22, 2008I thought I gave a good speech at Duke until I read the garbled account of it in The Chronicle. The story-April 18, "Horowitz sounds off to small crowd"
I thought I gave a good speech at Duke until I read the garbled account of it in The Chronicle. The story-April 18, "Horowitz sounds off to small crowd"
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