Nixon & Moynihan chatting about race

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>
>   Damn, that was a good read of something I can indulge in too much,
>conspiranoia, Wotjek!
>   June 18th, The Nation (btw, last night I saw a long profile of Katrina
>vanden Heuval, the editor on the UPI website), from Alex Cockburn, "Back in
>my days at the Village Voice I wrote a parody of conspiracy mongering and
>awoke to hear it being read out as serious news on WBAI by Samori
>Marksman..."

And why not?  Reality was constantly outpacing Cockburn's attempts at the 
time to engage in hyperbole.  I remember that the cartoon artwork that ran 
with Cockburn's weekly column "Annals of the Age of Reagan" depicted some 
shady character bearing satchels bulging with greenbacks, offer to pursue 
some international or domestic intrigue.  That supposed caricature was, to 
my way of thinking, a pretty precise photographic likeness of the Reagan 
crowd in action.

Carl
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