--- Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com> wrote:
> It's so irritating when people feel they can respond
> to articles that they
> haven't really taken the time to read. Not a single
> sentence in my article
> has anything to do with a "conspiracy theory".
Agreed. I CHALLENGE Carrol Cox to demonstrate where in that article Liza puts forward a "conspiracy theory". Where Carrol? I just re-read it and see only that Liza praised Answer on its organizing abilities while criticizing IAC/Answer's integrity. She criticized them not on hearsay evidence, in this instance, but on an attempt they made to compromise her integrity.
Of course, political expedience always is more important than the truth to stalinists, as is demonstrated by WWP/IAC's efforts to "make a deal" with Liza.
Carrol admits that he doesn't much about Workers World Party ("I know nothing about WWP really"), yet he will defend them and attack Liza, because the WWP are his fellow stalinists and no one should be allowed to air their dirty laundry.
Excellent article Liza....thank you. I am sure that most of us appreciate it.
-Thomas
And
> nowhere did I say that
> ANSWER was sectarian. I call them liars because I
> heard them strategizing
> about how to lie effectively to the press; I don't
> know how much more rooted
> in the "observable world" one can be. The other
> statements about them are
> based on extensive discussions with activists who
> have worked with them. The
> point of journalism is to go beyond "publicly
> available evidence." I'm a
> journalist, not a writer of press releases. Nothing
> wrong with writing press
> releases, but it's not my job.
>
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