Chavez and Ashcroft

jf noonan jfn1 at msc.com
Wed Jan 10 09:50:00 PST 2001


On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Christian Gregory wrote:


> Was the Schoor piece on the radio or in print?
>
> Christian

Sounds like the bit he did last Sunday on NPR.


>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 8:20 AM
> Subject: RE: Chavez and Ashcroft
>
>
> > Nobody's mentioned the poop on Rumsfeld and Powell.
> > Daniel Schorr did a piece skewering both of them,
> > along w/Chavez' hypocritical comments about Zoe
> > Baird.
> >
> > Rumsfeld is on the Nixon tapes being yes-man while
> > Dickie rants about black people, and several days
> > before the election Powell took some huge payment
> > from a Middle East businessman for some unidentified
> > service.
> >
> > Naturally these villains will be replaced by others
> > if they fail to win confirmation. But that process
> > ties up the Repugs, puts them more on the political
> > defensive, and reduces subsequent evils.
> >
> > mbs
> >
> >
> >
> > Linda Chavez as unwitting acolyte of the sanctuary movement? Let's see
> > now - you "allow" someone who is at risk of deportation to stay in your
> > house. Out of "gratitude" she cleans your house for you. Out of
> "charity"
> > you occasionally throw her a few bucks. Compassion enabling
> > hyperexploitation in my book.
> >
> > As for Ashcroft, the worst part of that interview in Souther Partisan
> wasn't
> > his formulaic praise of Jackson and Lee. It came when he suggested that
> the
> > pro-confederate Missouri legislature-in-exile was the legitimate state
> > government. That's a remark so obscure, and so unlikely to gain Ashcroft
> > support from anyone but a few crazies with very long memories, that it can
> > only be an expression of what he really thinks.
> >
> >
>

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