[lbo-talk] re: Chomsky, Nader, and the Green Party

/ dave / arouet at winternet.com
Sun Mar 21 10:45:31 PST 2004


Michael Pugliese fwd'd:


> http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0003/article/000302.html
> < Tikkun Mar/Apr 2000 : Publisher's Notes >
>
> Et Tu, Ralph Nader?
> More Elitist Culture-Bashing From the Left
> Danny Goldberg

...who writes:

"There is one national political leader who instinctively and in every public utterance embraces the masses who enjoy popular culture. His name is Jesse Ventura. It is commonplace among progressives to lament that Ventura, with all of his populist appeal, does not support progressive government policies. How poignant it is that a generation of snobbish political progressives has produced "leaders" who love America but despise Americans and so are doomed to never lead them."

Jesse Ventura (newly bearded) has turned up as a spring-term fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1384/4676163.html

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/ dave /



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