>> Only the ideologically blinded could fail to see how
>> stupid Miller's work was. And yet here we are at this
>> late date, reading a torrent of words from luminaries
>> who bring their late-to-the-party analyses and send
>> ups as if none of this was do-able seconds after
>> Miller put fingers to keyboard.
>>
>> .d.
>For me the sweetest anti-Miller moment came when she had the nuts to engage
>Edward Said on the Nation's ltr's page. Phew. Instant Miller stew served
>cold by the late Palestinian intellectual.
>DP
And let's not forget what was engaged -- Dr. Said chastising Miller for having the nuts to contribute to an Israeli "interrogation" of a prisoner and then having enough nuts/shame deficiency to write about it in _God Has Ninety-Nine Names_. Even before an invasion of Iraq was a mote in the eye of a whitepaper on Richard Perle's desk, La Miller was far better at embedding herself (some pun intended -- cf. SPY magazine's profiles) in order to serve the interests of power and her own career, as opposed to, you know, stuff like investigating, reporting...
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