Reply #29: The Scuttlebutt from BROCK

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*****QUOTE****from "Blinded by the Right********

p. 260. ...Barbara Ledeen, a neoconservative operative who was the executive director of the Independent Women's Forum, the antifeminist group Ricky had formed, in part with Scaife money, from Women for Judge Thomas. Ledeen was married to Michael Ledeen, a shadowy intriguer who was involved in Iranian arms deals during the Iran-contra scandal. Referring to herself asn an 'ex-hippie,' she displayed the same zealousness of 1960s left-wing extremism, now from the other side. Like many neocons I knew, Barbara had remained in the same emotional state of all--out war for the past thirty years. If only for the hell of it, Barbara was boiliing mad. ....

p. 318. ...Barbara Ledeen, director of the antifeminist Independent Women's Forum, whose husband, Iran-contra figure Michael Ledeen, I had criticized, not in the Esquire piece, but in the followup discussion on-line with Tucker Carlson, had threatened hyperbolically to 'firebomb' my house. Such feelings of betrayal were understandable. The article was a betrayal. It was not a betrayal of friendship, though I had once considered the Silbermans and the Ledeens to be friends. It was a betrayl of the only thing that had forged our bond: the conservative movement. ....
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