>> Some conservative pundits have gone so far as to celebrate
>>the triumph of mob rule over democracy and rule of law. Paul Gigot,
>>a commentator for PBS's "NewsHour" and the Wall Street Journal
>>editorial page, praised what he termed the "bourgeois riot." Gigot
>>reporting from the scene, witnessed John Sweeney, a visiting GOP
>>monitor, telling an aide, "Shut it down," and thereby inspiring
>>what he called the "semi-spontaneous combustion" that forced the
>>counters to "cave in."
Oh, right. You gotta admire Gigot for calling this a bourgeois riot and then celebrating it. It's why he's an interesting writer, even if his politics are fucked. Of course, Eric Alterman isn't about to call for a proletarian riot, so he criticizes riot itself.
Doug