Brock

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Mon Mar 18 17:58:32 PST 2002


SergioL652 at aol.com:
> I found this to be interesting, though:
>
> "In typical "liberal press" style, publications like "Salon" and the
> "Washington Post" have taken potshots at David Brock's new book, "Blinded by
> the Right," and questioned the motives of the author. It's all too typical of
> the flaccid, overwrought efforts of the allegedly "liberal media" to bend
> over backwards to eat their own. The right-wing Republican media pundits
> march in lock step behind books that bolster their political goals. The
> average so-called "liberal press" book reviewers usually run around trying to
> eat their own tails in a misguided attempt to prove that they are being
> "fair." What results, of course, is just the opposite."
>
> Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and
> bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the
> Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of
> democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
>
> Harry Lyme

Was it not in Switzerland that Albert Einstein worked out the theories of Relativity and published the papers which won him the Nobel Prize? Some cuckoo clock!

-- Gordon



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