"Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Am I the only one who doesn't get the Lerner flap? Let me
> get this straight. Lerner goes around bashing ANSWER
> publicly. ANSWER returns the favor by not inviting him to
> speak at their San Francisco rally Feb 16 (and Lerner
> himself says he never even *wanted* to speak). ANSWER
> then get depicted as totalitarian Kim Jong Il wanna-bes,
> with implied charges of anti-Semitism thrown in for good
> measure.
>
> Lerner's weakness for anything that puts him in the
> spotlight isn't news. But the way this has become a
> rallying cry, including a letter demanding Lerner be
> allowed to speak signed by all sorts of lefty luminaries,
> is baffling.
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0211-09.htm
Simple, really...Why should ANSWER be the be all end all for deciding who speaks and who doesn't.
(as an aside, I usualy can't hear speakers at these rallies anyway..sound system is usually sub par to begin with) --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]