History Note: C-Span chief Brian Lamb was once asked by a caller, who objected to a guest on a C-Span program, whether he would have, or would have had, Adolf Hitler as a guest. Lamb responded immediately that he would.

 

Index to items documenting the March – April 2005 media scandal surrounding Prof Deborah Lipstadt’s attempt to browbeat C-Span and stifle a history debate

• Irving – C-Span correspondence, with accurate prediction that Lipstadt will drop out
• Mr Irving’s Radical’s Diary reveals that C-Span wish to film his talk
• Another Radical’s Diary: “Deborah Lipstadt has set up her own Web diary: but can she cut the mustard? Let alone the crap she says she walks in”
• Lipstadt “appalled” at C-SPAN
• Radical’s Diary: Mr Irving’s March 15, 2005 talk at Atlanta, briefly described
• Lipstadt’s web diary reports remarks by Mr Irving in Atlanta | David Irving writes A Radical’s Diary: “Deborah Lipstadt has set up her own Web diary: but can she cut the mustard? Let alone the crap she says she walks in”
• Richard Cohen’s fury in Washington Post that C-SPAN grants equal air time: to silence David Irving, Lipstadt cancels her consent
• The self-important Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies cackles loud approval
• Irving – C-Span correspondence, with a prediction
• History News Network publishes ‘C-Span’s Mistake,’ the first public explanation by Deborah E. Lipstadt of her attempts to censor Mr Irving’s broadcast
• New York Times: C-Span’s Plan to Cover Talk on Holocaust Is Criticized
• Israel National news – More than 200 historians Protest Planned Holocaust Denier Program A list of the 200 “historians and social scientists” 
• Orchestrated pressure mounts on C-Span to silence Irving film: Media Matters secretly circulates its clique
• The stain spreads to Canada | Atlanta Journal Constitution reports
• Chronicle of Higher Education | a note on Lipstadt’s web diary
• The Jerusalem Post: [Lipstadt], a woman of valor 
  [Fairness note: in a statement on C-Span about the Lipstadt flip-flop, CEO Brian Lamb furnished the URL of Lipstadt’s blog but not of this website.]
• Deborah Lipstadt cuts off nose, spites face: Richard Cohen’s fury in Washington Post that C-SPAN grants equal air time
• To silence David Irving, Lipstadt cancels her consent
• The self-important Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies cackles loud approval
• Jewish Press: C-SPAN Falls Over The Edge
• Los Angeles Times: C-SPAN Hit for Plan to Air Holocaust Revisionist’s Views: Lipstadt will now air on Fox’s Bill O’Reilly Show
• Dan Markel, of The Jerusalem Post calls Lipstadt a woman of valor
• JBooks website does not know what to think: Read the internal debate, necessarily rather one-sided, in JBooks. Sample: “Can C-Span be sued? or somehow forced to issue an apology and make amends?” – Professor Gila Perach Hirsch, Vienna, Austria | Readers report that the JBooks discussion of Lipstadt book has suddenly disappeared | No matter, we archived it
• All the usual suspects: American Jewish Committee urges C-Span to drop program | ADL insists C-Span must apologize to Lipstadt
• The blog that an appalled Prof Lipstadt junked
• Lipstadt explains on her website why, unlike David Irving, she will no longer invite comments
• Los Angeles Times: C-SPAN Hit for Plan to Air Holocaust Revisionist’s Views
• David Irving: Radical’s Diary Deborah Lipstadt interviewed by Bill O’Reilly, and comments
• San Francisco Chronicle on the C-Span dilemma: “Sometimes the consensus changes over time”
• Fresh from Gadarene More Than 500 Historians Protest C-Span Broadcast of Holocaust- Denier  500 Historians Protest C-Span Broadcast of Mr Irving | List 1 (200), List 2 (300). – Total is now said to be 600. Objectivity note: Every corrupt “neutral expert” hired by Lipstadt for her defence has signed | Letter-writer investigates who the 500 are
  Note that when the pamphlet ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’ was published, the great Albert Einstein remarked: “if I were wrong, one would have been enough”.
• David Irving: Radical’s Diary Deborah Lipstadt interviewed by Bill O’Reilly, and his comments
•  Deborah Lipstadt huffs and puffs on Bill O’Reilly’s program (7.5MB, wmv)
• Prof Barry Steiner chides the Los Angeles Jewish Journal on Lipstadt: “The writing of Irving that I know and have consulted in my work is not fraudulent. It … shows not a shred of any linkage to Nazi sympathies.”
• Troy NY Record has second thoughts: “Can there be any reasonable person in the western world who disputes the breadth and depth of the Holocaust?”
• Lipstadt writes a paid OpEd in New York Sun: ‘Why I said No to C-Span’
• Holocaust Denial, C-SPAN and Ward Churchill
• Lipstadt slams 1. Prof Barry Steiner for supporting Mr Irving, 2. Emory Univ newspaper for accepting Mr Irving’s statement that she is obsessed with his being a Holocaust denier and that he finds the Holocaust “boring”
• Lipstadt’s fury that C-Span won’t now reply to her
• 3000 protestors intimidated C Span – Self anointed “Wyman Institute” gleeful as C Span apologises for filming Mr Irving’s talk and shows excerpts only — with insulting remarks 
• The C-Span program broadcast  [C Span claim they only ever intended to show the two brief clips of Mr Irving’s Atlanta talk: Yes, for which they sent an eight-man crew with full lighting equipment, two cameras, and video editing console; they filmed for three hours including arrivals, departures, and discussion — in line with the regular C-Span format]
• Note: This C-Span page is now blank. The Memory Hole has swallowed again, but live links can (or could) still be found on these sites [1] [2] [3].
• N Y Times: C-Span Regrets | Eighteen Harvard professors were among those who signed the anti-C-Span petition | Lipstadt, a yappy little Jewess with an obsession, says ‘C-SPAN and I must occupy different planets and speak different languages’ — Yes, precisely
• Lewis Regenstein comments on the C-SPAN broadcast about Deborah Lipstadt | Letters to this website and C-Span | New York Sun’s report | Lipstadt wasn’t happy with broadcast
• Atlanta’s Creative Loafing: Throughout the three-month trial, Lipstadt’s lawyers would not let her testify or even talk to the press
• Lewis Regenstein reports in Jewish Press on the uproar among Jewish groups about Mr Irving’s talk, with much of the coverage “inaccurate, misleading, and incomplete”
• More we’re-not-trying-to-silence-Mr-Irving news Traditional enemy piles pressure on Atlanta’s Landmark Diner to ban future Irving events there after their C-SPAN fiasco

• Dining out on the Holocaust Deborah Lipstadt visits Berlin (but can’t speak German): defends WW2 massacre at Dresden; is asked why she never took the stand during the Lipstadt Libel Trial | In 2002 she wrote in Nova Law Review a revealing survey of the months before the Lipstadt trial
• Still dining out on it: Lipstadt writes on The future of Holocaust denial in that objective daily, The Jerusalem Post, and worries that Arabs who have taken up the cry |and sells the same article to The Atlanta Journal : Lipstadt reminisces in the International Herald Tribune about her famous victory in the London High Court (she took the Fifth) and mentions her new book – it was going to be called My Struggle (no kiddin’). Mr Irving’s lawyers are among those eagerly awaiting it
• Still bragging Lipstadt recounts her legal battle with historian David Irving to audience at Univ of Texas at Dallas
• In article for domestic student consumption (Emory University) Lipstadt claims to have been the kingpin in Lipstadt Libel Trial (not so: she never even spoke!) | What really happened: Mr Irving talks in Atlanta, March 12
• Another skeptic bites the dust French far-right politician suspended from teaching duties over gas chamber remarks
• More reviews by Lipstadt’s friends of her new book on the Trial (has she no enemies?): Emory University (“The British press was nasty, seeing it as a battle of class — an English gentleman against an American Jewish woman upstart”) | Jewish Journal of Los Angeles
• Kirkus reviews Deborah Lipstadt’s turgid new book on the 2000 London trial (“it has dry patches” – like the Sahara): she has abandoned first choice for a title, My Struggle (no kiddin’)
• President Bush sends Lipstadt, Lantos, Wiesel to Auschwitz  – Not Van Pelt? Historic first: As battleship slowly sinks, rats go aboard?
• Impressions of the Trial of David Irving’s libel action against Deborah Lipstadt, by Michael Kustow