This is Wednesday. I like Cockburn on Wednesdays. On Thursdays I think he is a pompous conspiracist. On Mondays I think he is a nasty brute. The rest of the time I think he is an entertaining writer.
-cb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:03 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: The case against conspiracy
>
>
> Chip Berlet wrote:
>
> > > 3. The very name "Pearl Harbor," for all but the ignorant,
> >> is virtually synonymous with "a provoked and expected
> >> attack, permitted to happen for the purpose of shocking
> >> the American public into enthusiastic support for a war
> >> that it had previously refused to accept."
> >>
> >
> >This is a novel and dubious definition for "Pearl Harbor," unless
> >you spend your time reading right-wing conspiracy tracts. I have
> >seen this type of rhetoric primarily in the tomes from the
Liberty
> >Lobby booklist and its newspaper The Spotlight. Often this
thesis
>
> Actually, I thought Alex "Ace" Cockburn himself believed in the
> conspiracy theory of Pearl Harbor. Am I remembering wrong?
>
> Doug
>