Cockburn and Militias

[William S. Lear]

On Tue, June 2, 1998 at 14:56:38 (+0000) Alex LoCascio writes:
>Katha, Doug, your comments about Cockburn and his militia fetish are
>right on target.  A NetPal of mine in Seattle got me turned on to the
>Anderson Valley Advertiser so I could get everything Cockburn writes
>(after the Nation chopped his column up).  The editor, Bruce Anderson,
>seems to suffer from the same strain of faux-Populism that Cockburn does.
> I dunno if it has something to do with the West Coast or what.  He likes
>to hurl around the term "pwogwessive" and calls feminists "gender
>nationalists."   According to the same NetPal (Tresy Kilbourne, he's over
>on the Marxist list), Cockburn's latest intellectual fav is Christopher
>Lasch.  

I think some of Katha's advice would be well-taken here: "Let's have
some concrete citations -- not anecdotes ... or some vague
impression."

I'd like to see some concrete citations from Cockburn himself in which
he exhibits all of these supposedly vile characteristics.

Bill