[lbo-talk] Chavez to Speak in NYC's Riverside Church on Sep. 16th

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 9 06:24:14 PDT 2005


John Lacny wrote:


>Marvin, you give Pugliese too much of the benefit of the doubt. What
>you say would be true if he were at all honest or if he ever said
>anything even remotely interesting. In this case, he's the one who's
>guilty of precisely the polemical crimes you criticize. He calls
>members of a black church "useful idiots" for hosting the
>democratically-elected president of Venezuela.
>
>Wojtek -- despite his relentless and often tiresome misanthropy --
>is at least interesting and honest. Michael Pugliese writes the
>stuff he writes without any consideration of the consequences,
>because he does not think that any form of political truth or
>argument is all that important anyway. It's just a game for him. And
>it's a game that he appears to play solely online, and then only
>when he's drunk or high -- which is admittedly most of the time.

Michael does too much red-baiting for my taste, but drop the personal insults.

Doug



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