[lbo-talk] crazy? No, actually.

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Oct 8 19:02:00 PDT 2003


On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:41:13 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


>
> Most Americans cannot understand what the issues are all about, let
> alone form an opinion for or against them. What they react to is merely
> media appearance - if the guy looks tough and talks like us, good, if he
> uses them 5-dollar words and looks sissy, he is too pointed-heady and to
> hell with him.
>
> Wojtek

Marshall Frady, a Southern liberal, 'sez the same as the Birchers here, in his bio of Wallace, about his originally progressive stance on the "race question". Limousine liberal was a NYC politician's phrase, first though. Oy vey! "Limousine Liberal - The Magazine For Those Who Know What's Best - For Everyone!" "Katrina vanden Heuvel is your typical limousine liberal..." http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1539 http://www.flashbunny.org/content/limoliberal.html http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no23/vo14no23_wallace.htm
> ...Wallace’s frequent barbs at "limousine liberals," "limp-wristed
> pseudo-intellectuals," and "pointy-headed professors" energized millions.
> His constant insistence that "there’s not a dime’s worth of difference"
> between the top rungs of the major political parties made sense to tens
> of millions. When he targeted the huge foundations that used "tax-free
> monies to promote socialism or revolution," he knew he was taking on the
> core of the nation’s enemy from within. And he turned the tables on the
> liberals who wanted him to be known as a racist when he correctly
> attacked forced busing programs, attributing to them "the cattle-car
> racial lusts of a bunch of jack-booted guideline writers in Washington."

-- Michael Pugliese



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