Boring Lefties

loupaulsen at attbi.com loupaulsen at attbi.com
Tue Feb 18 12:24:13 PST 2003



> Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> >rom a NYPress review of my old comrade Norman Solomon's new book:
> >
> >"There's a reason why the left, or what America calls the left, has
> >an image problem, and it's not all due to right-wing propaganda. It
> >has an esthetic that turns off ordinary Americans. The Left won't be
> >caught dead eating at Jack in the Box. It doesn't know how to make
> >dick jokes and it doesn't know what the blue line is for. It writes
> >long pseudo-literary articles about boxing, but it's useless in a
> >bar fight. [etc.]

Who the fuck is this guy writing about? Since when is that the 'left'? This reminds me of the idiots who write in alt.politics.socialism and think that Bill Clinton is socialism. I should read that out loud in a coalition meeting and get a big laugh.

If the idea is that people think that that's what the left is, whose fault is that?

Doug writes:
> You should have said it was by the excellent Matt Taibbi!


> >you're not going to convince some frustrated cubicle slave in
> >Lawrence, KS, with a fat wife and forty grand in credit card debt
> >and a spare tire that makes him sick with self-loathing every time
> >he sees the cover of Men's Health, that he doesn't want to bomb the
> >shit out of somebody, anybody, at the earliest conceivable

Yeah, Doug, I saw "Falling Down" too, but you know what? We've got cubicles in my office, mostly occupied by women I might add, and even the men are hipper than this, and this is not some particularly trendy hangout I assure you. And what is this 'spare tire' business? A little 'fat-baiting' here?

lp



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