>I was talking to him this morning, since I brought him out for the
>"Rebellious Lawyering" conference here at Yale to talk about the whole
>anti-corporate agenda. And we privately happened to discuss all the left
>attacks on Medea. I think he justifiably thinks the critics are a bunch of
>macho, sexist sectarians who choose to trust the New York Times and libel a
>committed left activist because it makes them feel so superior.
It was sad to see her defending Niketown's windows against breakage, and cleaning things up the day after. That's not libelous, is it?
I've asked Kevin to explain this bit from Alex Cockburn's response to him in The Nation; I hope he answers.
>I should say straight away that Danaher's nineteen identical,
>sexist, patronizing faxes from a "husband" to a "fellow
>Anglo-Irishman," urging that I have a man-to-man chat with him while
>laying off the "skinny little woman," i.e., his wife, Medea
>Benjamin, have scarcely endeared me to his political outlook.
Doug