There is indeed some serious ambiguity about Huffington, as there is about Camille Paglia. I agree with Doug's remark a few weeks past about Paglia being a recycler of media cliches, and I don't follow her closely, either -- deliberately.
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 11:06:14 -0800
>Chip --
>
>As someone who has criticized Huffington often for her desire to
>"scrap SSI" the disability benefit for low income persons, I
>could not agree with your assessment more.
>Marc Cooper's head is between his legs.
>Marta
>
>Chip Berlet wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) is a classic right-wing
>> populist. If you read her book and then cruise her website,
>> she supports tax cuts for the rich, privatizing welfare and
>> turning it over to "faith-based groups," and railing against
>> government and wealthy elites, which is what the John Birch
>> Society has been doing for years.
>>
>> Talk about Gonadal Politics, if we castrated some of her
>> worshipful male leftists, they probably would wake up and
>> smell the rat. (speaking in metaphor, of course) :-)
>>
>> Not all anti-elite "serve the people" rhetoric comes from
>> the left.
>>
>> This is SO ANNOYING!
>>
>> Read the book:
>>
>> http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/more.htm
>
>--
>Marta Russell
>author, Los Angeles, CA
>http://disweb.org/
>Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract
>http://www.commoncouragepress.com/russell_ramps.html
>