Fellow LBO-ers:

Doesn't' this "Statement on Rigoberta Menchu"  from
www.versobooks.com sound like Reagan's reminiscences of his
liberation of Nazi death camps?

"Perhaps Menchu, speaking in a Paris flat in 1982, edited her
own account, identifying with stories she had been told by
others, highlighting her own hardships and presenting a hostile
portrait of her enemies. Those who have worked in similar oral
cultures tell me that the distinction between what has happened
to oneself and what has happened to close relatives or friends
can be easily lost. Likewise, in our culture, we think we have
witnessed something when we have seen it on TV."

Well, there she goes again (avuncular shake of head)....  I expect to see
them publishing a Rush Limbaugh omnibus at this point.