Denialist -- a word that could get you run out of Glendale. Hoagland's nomination -- an object of scorn for the ANCA was withdrawn today.

via U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, links by me:

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) expressed his support for the White House’s withdrawal of the nomination of Richard E. Hoagland’s to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. Mr. Hoagland had been nominated to replace Ambassador John Evans who was pushed to retire from his post by the Bush Administration. Congressman Schiff and many of his Congressional colleagues believe Ambassador Evans was recalled for his comments made in February of 2005 in which he publicly recognized the Armenian Genocide.

“The President was right to withdraw Mr. Hoagland’s nomination,” Schiff said. “During his confirmation hearings, Mr. Hoagland continued to deny that the massacre of a million and a half Armenians between 1915 and 1923 was genocide, thereby compounding the injury done to the Armenian people and, especially, the few remaining survivors of the first genocide of the Twentieth Century. I hope that the President will soon nominate a new ambassador who will be more forthcoming in discussing the Armenian Genocide”

Here's more of the release -- and just so you know the score, Adam Schiff is no denialist...

On March 21, at an Appropriations hearing before the Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Schiff pressed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her opposition to recognizing the Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923. In his pointed questioning, Schiff repeatedly asked the Secretary of State if she believed that the murder of 1.5 million Armenians could be characterized as anything other than a genocide. The Secretary did not directly respond.