Tom Lehrer on death of satire

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 8 12:45:56 PST 2003


Carrol Cox wrote:


>P.S. Admiration for how humorous conservatives and reactionaries can be
>is merely a confused recognition of their success in appealing to mass
>prejudice.

I've always wondered why you spent so much time on Pound, and seem to like his poetry a lot. He was a bigot and a fascist sympathizer. So surely you find some merit to him apart from this (which I do). In a lesser way, why can't one acknowledge the wit of pop rightwingers without being "confused"?

Doug



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