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Friday, June 14, 2002  

A READER WRITES . . .
The Mysterious Lisa Edwards

From: Lisa Edwards [mailto:lisa_b_edwards@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:15 PM
To: RittenReview@earthlink.net
Subject: Joshua Muravchik’s book

You’ve been misinformed. Muravchik and Midge Decter are not related.

Lisa

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From: Rittenhouse Review [rittenreview@earthlink.net]
To: Lisa Edwards
Cc:
Subject: RE: Joshua Muravchik’s book

Miss Edwards:

Thank you for taking the time to write to The Rittenhouse Review.

We appreciate your comment regarding Mr. Muravchik and Ms. Decter.

Unfortunately, since your e-mail included only an assertion, an assertion unaccompanied by either an explanation or a means of verifying the claim, it was not useful in our effort to resolve the confusion over the matter.

Rather surprisingly, yours was the only message we received concerning Mr. Muravchik and Ms. Decter before we were contacted by Tapped. I say surprisingly because gossip columnist Lloyd Grove of the Washington Post today published a piece in which he asserts that “the younger Podhoretz e-mailed the Rittenhouse Review that the nepotism charge was false.”

I wonder how Grove came upon that misinformation.

Again, thanks for writing...and for reading.

Best regards,

James M. Capozzola, Editor
The Rittenhouse Review
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com

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From: Lisa Edwards [mailto:lisa_b_edwards@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:15 PM
To: RittenReview@earthlink.net
Subject: Joshua Muravchik’s book

If you are seriously interested in resolving the Decter-Muravchik nepotism claim, I suppose you could always contact Joshua personally. Since the basis of your writer’s critique of Midge’s favorable review of Joshua’s book is that she gave him high marks because she’s his aunt, you really should be falling all over yourselves to get this resolved. I hope my comments served one useful purpose - that of alerting you to a possible error. I regret that I am unable to provide verification for my information.

I don’t know anyone from the Washington Post as I am a mere unix sys-admin from Charlotte, NC and not a journalist. I happen to be a huge fan of blogs - even if I disagree with the viewpoint.

Maybe Pod’s email went astray............

Thanks for reading and good luck resolving this issue.

Mrs. Edwards

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From: Rittenhouse Review [rittenreview@earthlink.net]
To: Lisa Edwards
Cc:
Subject: RE: Joshua Muravchik’s book

Mrs. Edwards:

You must be behind in your reading.

We have had extensive correspondence with Mr. Muravchik in recent days as has been documented at The Rittenhouse Review.

Moreover, the matter has been resolved without our having had to fall all over ourselves.

Best regards,

James M. Capozzola, Editor
The Rittenhouse Review
http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com

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James Martin (Jim) Capozzola launched The Rittenhouse Review in April 2002, TRR: The Lighter Side of Rittenhouse, HorowitzWatch, and Smarter Andrew Sullivan in July 2002, and Bulldogs for Kerry-Edwards in October 2004. He is also a contributing member of President Boxer.

He received the 2002 Koufax Award for Best Post> for "Al Gore and the Alpha Girls" (published November 25, 2002). Capozzola's record in the Koufax Awards includes two additional nominations for 2002 (Best Blog and Best Writing), three nominations for 2003 (Best Blog, Best Series, and Best Writing), and two finalist nominations in 2004 (Best Blog and Best Writing).

Capozzola’s experience beyond the blogosphere includes a lengthy career in financial journalism, securities analysis, and investment research, and in freelance writing, editing, ghost-writing, and writing instruction.

He earned his bachelor's degree in political science from the University at Albany and a master's in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.

Capozzola lives in Philadelphia with his bulldog, Mildred.
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