[lbo-talk] David Brooks: sad, lonely, pathetic

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 1 14:40:46 PDT 2004


---- Original Message ---- From: John Lacny To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] David Brooks: sad, lonely, pathetic


> Doug quotes:
>
>> Brooks is a tad sensitive about his
>> Stakhanovite literary output.
>
> This is the second hard-left reference I've seen
> regarding Brooks in the course of a day. A friend
> of mine was telling me that he watched Brooks on
> McNeil-Lehrer last night, and that Brooks was
> outraged that most members of the public didn't
> know that many of the demonstrators at the RNC
> were Maoists and "members of the Spartacist
> League." Now, the first instinct of people on this
> list is to laugh at how empirically untrue this is (I
> mean, how many Sparts are there, anyway?) but
> can you imagine what most listeners were
> thinking when they heard Brooks talk about the
> Sparts? They probably thought it was a reference
> to the Olympics. Similarly, who the fuck other
> than us knows what a Stakhanovite is?
>
>
>
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> John Lacny
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>
> People of the US, unite and defeat the Bush regime and all its
> running dogs!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stakhanovite: Sta·kha·nov·ite (st?-kä'n?-vit') n. A Soviet worker honored and rewarded for exceptional diligence in increasing production.

[After Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov (1906-1977), Soviet miner.]

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