[lbo-talk] Re: Right Wing Antiwar Sites

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 19 20:21:15 PDT 2003


Michael Pollak wrote:


>Him and Taki Theodoracopulos, who's bankrolling it.
>
>> There can be common cause with libertarian opponents of the Patriot
>> Acts, but not with the close-the-boarders crowd.
>
>At their inaugural press conference, one of the reporters asked Buchanan
>how, given his views, he could justify setting up shop with an immigrant
>like Taki. Buchanan answered "Well, I don't think he crawled in across
>the Rio Grande." The reporters looked at Taki who said "Actually I came
>over on my yacht."
>
>Taki is so far on the right that

...I could swear I remember a column he wrote in the Spectator in the 1980s defending apartheid. His argument was that there was a natural hierarchy in a mining economy - the white man at the top of the mine shaft supervising the black one down below.

Doug



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