Crazy Davy Is The New Reed Irvine

Crazy Davy Horowitz has penned a touching tribute to the late Reed Irvine. Davy fondly recalls the evening in the early 90s when Irvine repeatedly phoned Davy, pestering him to call into Larry King's show and confront "fellow-traveller" King and his guest, Carl Bernstein, the son of a commie. Davy finally phoned in, and got hung up on. Nevertheless, says Davy, "I have no regrets about making the call."

Should've saved that one for the funeral, Davy. That's pure anecdote gold.

The best part of Davy's reminiscence:

So unlike a reign of terror was McCarthyism that when Bernstein the younger told Ben Bradlee his editor at the Washington Post about his father's Communist Party membership, Bradlee kept him on the Watergate story and the hunt for President Nixon. As far as the Washington Post was concerned it was okay for the son of a Communist to bring down a sitting American President in the middle of the Cold War.

Bec1ause if McCarthyism had been an actual reign of terror, 20 years after it ended, Bernstein, Bernstein's father, Bradlee and Larry King all would have been swinging from lampposts instead of bringing down Nixon by exposing his Administration's crimes.

Some people say that Irvine passed the torch of drooling lunacy to Horowitz the fateful day when Davy called Larry. I say Davy was a fruitcake long before then.