ace confesses?

[Bradford DeLong]

>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>  But this use of "the Israeli lobby,"  without any mention of Israel's
>>  relevance to U.S. imperial policy, underscores how close this is to the
>>  conspiracist explanation of U.S.  behavior.
>
>I don't think he's aging gracefully, but to be fair to AC, I think he was
>personally subject to one of the worst campaigns of anti-semite baiting
>I've ever seen.  It was arguably the very height of his career and
>influence.  He was writing two columns a week for the Village Voice in the
>early 80s, Press Clips and one of his own stuff, back when it was still
>the widest circulation left weekly in America.  His reportage and press
>criticism on the Lebanese war was absolutely top notch and he seemed to
>have the influence in the city of a modern Karl Kraus.  And as I remember
>it, the New York Jewish establishment pretty much ran him out of his job.
>I think the pretext was that he had taken a $10,000 or $20,000 advance to
>write a book on the Middle East from an organization with Arab
>associations and he hadn't disclosed it to his readers.  It struck me at
>the time as a completely contrived charge, and outrageous and racist, but
>it was fanned into a big scandal, as proof that he really was an
>anti-semite and an unethical man...

And now he writes that "...the Times['s]... front-page piece[s] 
rubbishing the Catholic Church as a nest of molesters" can be seen 
"...as a preemptive strike against papal criticism of Israel's 
actions..."

Seems to me that he has looked into the abyss, and the abyss has 
looked into him.

Brad DeLong