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Appendix: Correspondence
Mr. Irving's comments on the pamphlet, June 1998.
From
Diary of a Nobody:
Several coloured students are there, mostly training to become
teachers. They are bright and friendly; one tall, doleful man who
identifies himself as a Jew takes over the floor microphone and tries
to berate me using a handbill issued by an ADL-front
organisation. He calls me "racist, anti-Semitic," and all the other
tired old clichés. I correct him on these and other points, but
it seems clear that nobody believes him anyway.
From
The Pit:
Dredged Up From the Cess-Pit...Specimens retrieved from the
Cyber-Pit
Jamie McCarthy smears David Irving in Web pamphlet, "Who Is David
Irving?" April 12, 1998.
From
More Lies:
The New McCarthyism
ON APRIL 17, 1998, Jamie McCarthy posted the following display on
his Website. It repeats the usual foul-mouthed and petty-minded smears
against David Irving. Although McCarthy has been aware of the existence
of this Website since February 1998 (see correspondence) he has been
careful not to extend the usual courtesy of offering his readers links
to this site to enable them to check his fictions against the facts.
Mr. McCarthy's email, July 2, 1998.
Mr. Irving,
I have just found your
"McCarthyism" directory
in the
Cyber Cesspit;
it was up for two weeks before I noticed it, I'm afraid. I'm flattered
that I have a whole folder to myself. Not so flattering was the
comparison to Tail-Gunner Joe. No relation, I'm pleased to say.
I have a number of questions for you about these pages, but I'll limit
myself to two in this email, so as not to overwhelm you, and I'll get
straight to the point:
1) In your
"Diary of a Nobody,"
you describe the Holocaust History
Project as "an ADL-front organisation."
My question: would you describe making things up as a habit of yours,
or was this just a one-time thing?
2) Your title on your
reproduction of the pamphlet
is "More Lies," and you refer to the "fictions" I have written therein.
But you don't actually point out anything I wrote that was false.
The question: could you please point out a few of these lies and
fictions, so that I may reply and/or correct them?
Thank you.
Mr. Irving's email, July 3, 1998.
Objections noted and I will respond either here or on
Web page
Mr. McCarthy's email, July 3, 1998.
Thank you. Please note that I have incorporated all your comments
that I could find on the pamphlet webpage itself. I will continue to
do so as time permits (or will make a separate page if I run out of
space).
Mr. McCarthy's email, January 6, 1999.
Mr. Irving,
To refresh your memory: you had attacked the Holocaust History
Project's pamplet, entitled "Who is David Irving?" as being or
containing "lies" and "fictions." You had also stated that the
pamphlet was issued by "an ADL-front organisation." While many of the
statements that you made about my modest work were false or misleading,
these were the two which best lent themselves to direct questioning.
I therefore, last July 2nd, asked you two questions:
1) In your "Diary of a Nobody," you describe the Holocaust History
Project as "an ADL-front organisation."
My question: would you describe making things up as a habit of
yours, or was this just a one-time thing?
2) Your title on your reproduction of the pamphlet is "More Lies,"
and you refer to the "fictions" I have written therein. But you
don't actually point out anything I wrote that was false.
The question: could you please point out a few of these lies and
fictions, so that I may reply and/or correct them?
It has now been over six months since you stated you would respond to
these two simple questions. I have seen no response.
I assume you're not put off by the facetious tone of question number
one; if you find my sense of humor grating, please accept my apologies
and consider it rephrased as "why did you describe the Holocaust
History Project as 'an ADL-front organisation'?"
In any event, it seems I was quite right to limit myself to two, so as
not to overburden you. Other questions come to mind as well. I'd also
like to ask, for example -- all these points are raised in the pamphlet
and you've been free to address them at any time:
- why you changed Eichmann's words around to fit your thesis;
- how you think the Nazis would have buried "Judaism" in a ditch;
- why you claimed that Goebbels' diary and Himmler's Posen speech
contained no reference to liquidation (extermination);
- whether you've learned anything about coke consumption of the
Auschwitz ovens;
- why you continue to give speeches to neo-Nazis;
- why you've lied about speaking to neo-Nazis;
- why you can't decide between 600,000 and 4,000,000 and 1,000,000
as the Jewish death toll;
- and whether you can name a single historian, exclusive of Holocaust
"revisionists," who agrees with your controversial views on the
extermination of European Jews.
But at this point, it looks like I shouldn't expect even an answer to
the first two. Should I keep waiting?
Mr. Irving's email, January 7, 1999.
Hello Jamie,
by the fact that I am still working at 6:10 a.m., you will see I am
very, very short of time to handle e-mails. But to do the fair thing,
I'll post your letter prominently, though without answers, on my online
newsletter.
Of course our site will never be as beautiful as Nizkor's
but then they and you don't battle against the Filters, do you.
Regards
David Irving
(Mr. McCarthy has "battled against the Filters" since before
Mr. Irving knew they existed; he is a founding member of
The
Censorware Project.
Mr. McCarthy is not associated with the
Nizkor Project.)
Mr. Irving's email, January 9, 1999.
Okay, here's the link. [to a reprint of the above email]
http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/Rightwing/McCarthy060199.html
David Irving
Email forwarded by Mr. Irving to Mr. McCarthy,
January 10, 1999.
From: John Boyle <[email protected]>
To: David Irving <[email protected]>
Subject: Jamie McCarthy and Nizkor
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999
His letter to you shows just how ignorant he is. Not only that but,
for an Irishman, and this comes from an Irishman, a complete and utter
fool! It is obvious he cannot read nor can he think, because if he were
to read your books, especially Goebbels but including Hitler's War, he
would, then at least, have the facts of where you stand plainly in
front of him. Plus his lies about the backing by the terrorist group ADL, make me sick. He should be forced to read the
Talmud, of which English editions are in existence, of course he would
have to be tought to read, wouldn't he?
continue to the pamphlet...
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