'Concern about the left's apetite' for 'these people' sounds like the concern of puritanic matrons that their children are being exposed to say, rock and roll, and can't figure out for themselves what they should like. If the information is not good - it should be evident and should not need anybody's 'concern'. There are already various numbers of 'left' positions on any number of issues. Rather than policing what other people read or hear, researchers are better off producing their own work and offering it instead.
Finally, I'm sure Amy Goodman decided - in her estimable opinion on such matters - that General Thomas Moorer was the best source on the issue of the USS Liberty, his ideological orientation notwithstanding. What I don't understand is why people like you are more concerned about Amy interviewing someone who is affiliated with a marginal group like the Birchers - and don't seem to mind that she more routinely interviews people like ex-DCI James Woolsey. You seem to me more concerned with narrow cliquish purism than open minded discourse.
Joe W.
>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: Re: [lbo-talk] re What does Amy Goodman see in Thomas Moorer?
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:00:08 -0600
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
> > This seems to me an attempt to shift the focus from Mike
> > Ruppert and April Oliver and how they are 'right-wingers'
> > - apparently because that contention is palpably fraudulent.
>
>Yesterday, I posted:
>
> > As for Ruppert, David Corn actually bothered to discredit
> > him because of his significant fan-base among Corn's left
> > readers:
> >
> > To Protect and to Spin
> > The ex–LAPD cop who became a 9/11 conspiracy king
> > by David Corn
> >
> > http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/30/features-corn.php
>
>And the day before:
>
> > Even if the political tags are slightly off, these are loathsome
> > cranks.
>
>Concern over the left appetite for these people was Stephen's original
>reason for raising this issue. There's something seriously f'd up when
>leftist outlets invite Birchers on air.
>
>Always amazed me how nearly all "parapolitical research" comes so quickly
>into focus if you just take a Bircher's POV. Maybe that's not
>right-wing, but it's no left I wanna be a party to.
>
>-- Shane
>
>
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