Horowitz and Poe promised "full-blown" rebuttals to Media Matters' debunking of The Shadow Party -- so what's taking so long?

August 8 marks the official release date of David Horowitz and Richard Poe's new book, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). In separate responses to Media Matters for America's August 2 item exposing the doctored and misrepresented quotes, misstatements, and false and previously debunked claims in The Shadow Party, Horowitz and Poe both promised to provide complete rebuttals to Media Matters' work. In an August 4 article on FrontPageMag.com, Horowitz responded to "a sampling of one particular set of charges," noting that it was "not a full-blown response to these slanders -- that will come." Poe, in an August 2 entry to the weblog ShadowParty.com (which also appears at two other Poe-authored blogs, Poe.com and Scribe and Scroll, that largely repeat the content at ShadowParty.com) offered "just a quick rebuttal to a single minor -- yet richly illustrative -- point," promising that "an exhaustive, point-by-point refutation" is "in the works." Read more