Scandal: Pelosi Tied to Tony Blair

[JCWisc at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/14/2002 4:58:15 AM Central Standard Time, 
nathan at newman.org writes:


> Scandal: Pelosi Tied to Tony Blair 
>  http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000558.shtml#000558
>  Okay, this red-baiting of Pelosi gets sort of funny, if you ignore the 
evil 
> intent. (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/788312/posts)  The 
chain 
> of guilt by association goes like this-- Pelosi is a member of the 
47-member 
> Progressive Caucus of Congress members. The Democratic Socialists of 
America (
> DSA) support policies of the Caucus (although not necessarily the other way 
> around, notably.) 
>  
>  And, horrors, DSA is a member of the dreaded SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

Something I hear occasionally from people who derive their view of the world 
from talk radio is that "x number of Democractic Congressmen are members of 
the 'socialist party.'"  Apparently, the chain of "reasoning" disseminated by 
right-wing publicists is, x Democrats in Congress are members of the 
Progressive Caucus, the policies of the Progressive Caucus are supported by 
DSA, ergo members of the PC are also members of the "socialist party."

Jacob Conrad