Here is a correspondance between Irving and the producer at CSPAN after Lipstadt protested/pulled out and the controversy ensued.
NOTE – CSpan has still not renwed the offer for Lipstadt to come on so apparently their apology is meaningless? And as the email below shows they are/were apparently contemplating having Irving on himself when he comes to the US!
From a webposting -
NOTE THE FAWNING BY CSPAN!
Infamous Holocaust denier David Irving has seen fit to publish – on his website – his odious correspondence http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/05/03/Lipstadt_CSpan.html with sycophant Amy Roach of C-Spam – ooops I meant C-Span. He must think this stuff makes him look good.
Dear Amy,
that is very civil of you to want to balance your coverage. More on that in a minute. But: How come you never covered such items as Lipstadt’s pressurising St Martin’s Press in April 1996 to violate their contract to publish my Goebbels biography, the result of eight years’ work by me in the Moscow KGB and other archives (Prof Gordon Craig subsequently described that book in the most glowing terms in a six page review in the NY Review of Books — a book you could not, and still cannot, buy anywhere in the USA!)
And on and on and on ….
By the way Deborah L will do all she can to dissuade you from giving me a fair hearing, even if it means losing publicity for her book. Just to warn you of what you will let yourself in for.
Nice touch. The amazing powers of Carnac, http://www.johnnycarson.com/carson/entertainment/carnac/index.jsp this man has.
Roach’s fawning reply:
Thanks so much for your quick response. Great to hear that you are planning a US tour. The timetable sounds perfect, actually. Are you promoting a new book, or is your lecture topic-driven? I’d love to see a copy of your tour schedule, so that we can consider taping one of your events or arranging an interview during your visit to the states.
I had Naomi Ragen’s email on it as well but lost it. Lipstadt apparently appeared on O’reilly immediately as the controversy came out and CSPan withdrew their invite.
Mike
