Pro-wars envy anti-wars' "deep pockets"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 31 13:54:13 PST 2003


Dennis Perrin wrote:


>I ran into this all the time, esp in debates with AIM and MRC (two far right
>media groups). These people truly believe that the mass media, the corp
>press, whatever you want to call it, is left wing and that it promotes
>socialism. And no amount of evidence to the contrary ever sways them.

They're like this about everything. I remember having a chat with some dude from the MRC in the late 1980s and mentioning that income inequality had increased in the U.S. during the previous decade. He said it hadn't. I said the Census Bureau stats proved my case, but he would hear none of it.

Doug



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