Coalitions against the Vietnam War were regularly attacked by earnest liberals for containing e.g. Communists "with other agendas." Said liberals said that was worth noting and indeed adequate excuse to stay away. --CGE
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Good on them for sure. But Ace - as Cockburn was calling himself last
> year - has a bad habit of ignoring bad stuff that righties do and
> magnifying the bad stuff that liberals do. I'm all for bashing
> liberals - it's one of my favorite indoor activities - but most of the
> people on his list would like to criminalize abortion and homosex,
> force prayer into the schools, deregulate and privatize everything,
> and adopt the gold standard. You might think that was worth noting.
>
> Doug
>