>St. Clair's snotty response reflects the Cockburn style -- short,
>dismissive, hostile, which is too bad since C-Punch has posted some good
>stuff of late, but they've also grabbed at wild stories, like the CNN "fake"
>footage and now this. (If you read Claud Cockburn's memoirs, you'll find
>that AC's pop had a taste for wild political gossip in the days when he
>edited "The Week.") AC and JSC clearly don't like having their judgment
>questioned, and will lash out at those who dare do so.
The new print CP has a little story saying that Jiang Zemin was the first world leader to get in touch with Bush after 9/11, and told the Leader of the Free World that it'd be ok by him if the U.S. dropped nuclear weapons on the perps. How does CP know this? They don't say - we just have to trust them.
Doug