---- Original Message ---- From: philion at stolaf.edu To: lbo Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:29 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Spitting on the troops (the psy-war continues)...
> Leigh, who was that guy on the mp3? He repeats that tired myth of
> Fonda handing over GI's notes to the VC at the Hanoi Hilton...what a
> wierd bunch of confusion...
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> Steve
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> Stephen Philion
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> St. Olaf College
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I think he brought it up mostly to "show how deep the anger runs".
Whether he believes that as a fact, or whether Jane Fonda admitted to it in her book... I dunno. He's been around for a loooong time. He's also from a left journalistic background, 1970s Alternative News Service(ANS), and not prone to fabrication... exaggeration perhaps. Has anyone read Fonda's book yet? She might have verified it.
He's also sort of affectionately fond of the minuteman patrols at the AZ/Mex border, but has kept the news reports fairly balanced with note of the right-wing stupidity...
My best description is Hunter Thompson's social attitude with a serious individualist/leftist streak.
Go to my home page and listen to the way he does his news reports for a fuller look at his basic attitude www.leighm.net .
There's also an archive... he tells interesting stories sometimes, one recently about John Muir, the fellow that wrote The Idiot's Guide to the Volkswagen that was so popular in the 60s because it showed literally *anyone* how to fix their bug... Apparently he was living on an island in the China Sea at the height of the cold war in the 50s waiting to get a sampan built so he could sail around the world, and got to watch the rockets fly overhead everyday at specific times for a couple of years.
As commentary it was a philosophical treatise(in a 5 minute time frame).
The archive is arranged in a very user-unfriendly date format at the moment but I plan to upgrade to an index page with human intelligeble links as soon as I find the time.
Feel free to rummage around.
Leigh