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> Check the transcript for last night's show. David Horowitz and Alfre Woodard
> flex their respective mental muscles, and the world sighs . . .
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i actually saw the show and was pleasantly surprised by a part where don bustany talks about US foreign policy et al, which actually drew an applause from the crowd (i hope they did hear him right). from the transcript (thanks for the link dennis):
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Don: Bill, do you want to hear this? You asked for a solution, Bill. Do you want to hear my suggestion for a solution to our problem here with the terrorism? There are two phases. One, pursue the killers. Pursue them without hurting innocent people. Now, that pursuit can take a long time. And let that continue as a part of the project. The other part is, review our foreign policy and change the capitalistic conditions that we pursue against the knowledge and the will of the American people in propping up dictators, to create stable conditions for our big business to flourish. The American people --
Bill: I mean --
[ Applause ]
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of course the response was pretty mainstream (david below is david horowitz):
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David: Have I heard this right? Is this a plea for socialism?
Bill: I don't know.
Alfre: You heard that wrong, baby. That's way off.
[ All talking at once ]
Bill: Arab dictators? I don't think we propped up Saddam Hussein. The problem is that we didn't knock him down.
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--ravi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.