Quoting from a colleague of mine at (http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents/kpfa_ruppert.html):-
"In a couple previous essays I have written in utter frustration about the dysfunctional, petulantly closed-minded rejection by some on the Left of any information or ideas concerning 9/11 and the "War on Terror" which can be seen from certain hard-wired ideological viewpoints as "conspiracy theory." For a long time I have sensed, at gut level, the presence of a smug and defensive reaction formation on the part of many old-school Leftists and political activists which leads them to disparage any controversial allegations or theories about government corruption which are either outside their safe comfort zone or do not fit neatly within their favored ideological narrative. In addition, I am both amused and appalled to see those types often borrow a tactic which was originally invented by establishment pundits and the corporate media: arbitrarily labeling outspoken whistleblowers against deep, systemic government criminality and conspiracy as "right wing extremists."
Finally a letter from Peter Dale Scott to KPFA:-
A MESSAGE FROM PROFESSOR PETER DALE SCOTT
I am distressed to hear that KPFA, a supposedly liberal and open-minded institution, is denying Mike Ruppert the right to be heard. Have any reasons been advanced for this censorship?
I have known Mike Ruppert quite well for at least two years. He is a zealous seeker after truth; and especially recently, has unearthed a number of important stories which he was the first to break. One of them, about Attorney-General Ashcroft's failure to recuse himself in a DOJ investigation of Exxon-Mobil in Central Asia, is extremely important. I have posted it on my own website at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qfmobil.html.
Mike Ruppert goes after breaking stories. In so doing, he runs the risk that some of these stories will look different with the benefit of
hindsight. However I am not aware of anything he has said, written, or done recently, that would justify denying him access to the airwaves
of KPFA.
If KPFA is to persist in this policy, they should explain their
reasons for doing so immediately. I would request that they send their explanation both to him and to me.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Dale Scott
English Department, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720.
Address: 2740 Belrose Ave., Berkeley CA 94705.
Phone: 510 848-6812. Email: pdscott at socrates.berkeley.edu
FAX: 510 848-5259 (up to 3 pages); 510 642-8738 (For Prof Scott) (4+pp)
Website: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott
I invite you to look at my new webpage on the Al-Qaeda/bin Laden crisis: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html (updated 3/30/02)
>From: Shane Taylor <s-t-t at juno.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] re What does Amy Goodman see in Thomas Moorer?
>Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:51:48 -0600
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
> > Lembcke also labeled Prouty "right wing", as he did
> > people like Michael Ruppert and Jeff Rense.
>
>Stephen E Philion replied:
> > yes, he did. and in all likelihood that's an accurate association.
>
>Even if the political tags are slightly off, these are loathsome cranks.
>It's embarrassing to find avowedly leftist outlets mollycoddling any of
>them.
>
>Besides, it's a generous euphemism to call Jeff Rense "right wing". More
>like a certain Old School conspiracism: http://www.rense.com/
>
>-- Shane
>
>
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