From "Plain Sailing" to "Where the Hell Are We?" to "Up the Creek"

[C. G. Estabrook]

Cockburn is not using Bill White as a source, as you imply.  But I suppose
it does reveal his fascist tendencies that he mentions that a Guardian
(UK) article was "re-run gleefully by LSN"...

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Michael Pugliese wrote:


>    Cockburn in Counterpunch...>Re-run glefully in
> LSN...
>    LSN is the news-service of loon, Bill White, from
> the 'burbs in Bethesda, Maryland. LSN can be found at
> htp://www.overthrow.com where I just confirmed a
> moment ago that the LSN ("Libertarian Socialist
> News.") Alex was referring to, was the same one I,
> immediately thought of. Bill's politics are friendly
> to the neo-fascist National Alliance, he was in 2000,
> on the central committee of the Buchananite Reform
> Party of Maryland, until he was thrown off by their
> chair.
>   Several years ago, on Counterpunch, a free-lancer
> who had previously written for the defunct NYC
> alternative rag, The Eye, quoted respectfully, Bill
> White, in a story. Within a few hours, Jeffery St.
> Clair, had told me that inadequate
> vetting/fact-checking had occurred and Bill White was
> never going to be used as a source again.
> Michael Pugliese, with a new DSL line that has almost
> never up and running, since installation on the 17th.
> Harumph.
>  
> 
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