[lbo-talk] Counterpunch plagiarizes...

[C. G. Estabrook]

The piece <http://www.counterpunch.org/putin.html>, dated
April 17, 2001, refers to "his natural son ... The boy's
mother is now an American citizen," and seems to be a rather
circumstantial account.  It notes that "It was during a time
when it was unclear what was going to happen to the Yeltsin
government."  

How is that "clearly made-up"?  If it is in fact one of the 
"demonstrable fabrications" to which you refer, I hope that
was demonstrated to the editors.  It's hardly evidence for
that, much less for the assertion that the "website publishes

 ... plagiarized material repeatedly."  --CGE

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Man, a few years ago they published a clearly made-up
diatribe about how Putin (and his son) were traipsing
through North America ordering prostitutes. Putin has
no son. It was quite obviously pulled out of the
writer's ass (kind of racist too). As far as I know it
is still on their website. Disgraceful.

--- C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:


> A (corrected) misattribution no more constitutes
> "repeatedly
> publishing plagiarized material" than observations
> which which
> you disagree are "demonstrable fabrications."  But I
> thought
> in fact your objection was the much more incisive
> "they are a
> bullshit outlet"?  
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 07:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>  
> >Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Counterpunch plagiarizes
> the
> Washington Monthly's K. Drum  
> >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >
> >
> >I don't think it calls for much analysis when a
> >website publishes demonstrable fabrications and
> >plagiarized material repeatedly.
> >