--- Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> wrote: >
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!
They din't have 500 years of democracy and peace either. Graham Greene was very annoyed by that line being in the film, as he thought people would think he was responsible for it.
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