[lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Thu Mar 17 09:38:19 PST 2005


I say it again: Churchill is a test and a trap for the left. Thomas Brown has the dead-on right answer in his latest history-net editorial (link from 2 days ago).


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>
> At 11:16 AM 3/17/2005, John Costello wrote:
> > > >The difference is that, on the right wing, it really is a *hate*
> > > >machine
> >
> > > Why can't we have a proper hate machine too? I'm tired of coping with
> > > unmechanized contempt on such a small scale!
> >
> >Well, I wouldn't want to be the one who has to grease all the gears
> >and perform the tune-ups. On the right, that's done by Michael Weiner
> >and Ann Coulter.
> >
> >Maybe Ward Churchill would be willing to take the job.
>
>
> Oh. Dear. I watched a video clip of him on Mahar's show. Uh. Did Max say
> something about feeling embarassed for the guy? I'm not sure I was
> embarassed but he was thrown softball after softball and he just seemed to
> look at Mahar with utter contempt. It was as if he were thinking, "WTF am
> I
> doing on this show with this eeeeeeeeeeediot? And do I really have to
> answer these eeeeediotic questions for a bunch of eeeeeeediotic people?"
>
> Yikes. If he's going to grease the wheels, he'd have to exhibit contempt
> for the rightwing, not the ordinary viewer.
>
>
> s.s.
>
>
> --Bruce Sterling
>
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