>Why isn't anyone asking for the head of Ms. Barbara Ehrenreich, the
>NYT editorialist in favor of Mr. Nader?
>
>She uses her leftist authority bestowed on her by the several
>leftist publications which have featured her writings to divert in
>practical terms the vote to Mr Bush?
>
>She has implicated every journal which has used her and which she
>has used for her jejune leftism in the victory of Mr Bush, whose
>irrationalism, coupled with a pliant Congress, suggests the darkest
>times ahead for this country.
>
>If she had made an argument for abstention on the basis of the
>development of extra parliamentary opposition, she would have been
>on strong ground. But by encouraging participation in the electoral
>system as way of making progressive change--vote for my xenophobic
>nationalist man Nader--she implicitly serves to legitimize its
>results. And in this case she has done much harm in guaranteeing the
>that results are a setback for humanity.
>
>In my opinion, Ms Ehrenreich should never be allowed top billing in
>a leftist magazine.
Wow. I just had her on my radio show. Good thing I hadn't read this ukase before I booked her. A setback for humanity. Wow. I feel so guilty now.
Doug