[lbo-talk] Robert Fisk

[J Cullen]

>C. G. Estabrook writes:
>
>>  I don't think these quotations are as contradictory as
>>  they may seem.  In each case Fisk speaks of the
>>  coming of a civil war that does not now exist, provoked
>>  by the advent of the American troops.  That such a thing
>>  could be the conscious policy of the US and/or its
>>  collaborators seems to be regarded as unthinkable by
>>  some on this list.  I don't see why
>
>I agree. It seems to me that people are a little glib on this list 
>in trashing people who don't deserve it. For instance, I have no 
>idea who that Michael Ruppert character is, but Cynthia McKinney 
>doesn't deserve the walloping she got today from some on this list. 
>She was a terrific, progressive Congresswoman -- an outspoken, 
>progressive black Congresswoman, to be more specific -- and she was 
>buried by the Democratic establishment via the use of someone who 
>had only recently been a registered Republican. The piling-on on 
>McKinney by the punditocracy that followed the piling-on by the 
>powers-that-be -- in standard fashion -- was grotesque, though well 
>within the tradition of public lynching of influential black people 
>who step out of line, going back at least to Paul Robeson and 
>probably well before. It's unseemly for left-wingers to join in on 
>that kind of thing, particularly when they employ the same candards 
>about how McKinney was "crazy" or prone to "conspiracy theories,"!
>   etc. The country is worse off for her hounding from the political 
>scene, and there is no two ways about it.
>
>
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>John Lacny
>

McKinney is said to be mounting a comeback campaign for her congressional seat.