[lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement

Chuck chuck at mutualaid.org
Wed Sep 12 20:36:33 PDT 2007


bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:


> oh! you could raise funds by having a show, "How not to Revo" -- sponsored
> by Citibank Card. You could secretly tape a person who claims to be a
> leftist. Interview their leftist friends, family, and comRods about how
> sucky they are at revolutionary leftism. Then, get all their comRods
> together ($1 to Paula) and surprise them, doing a kind of intervention on
> them with a showing of the videotaping of their horrible revolutionary praxis!

That might work. Kind of a leftist take on "What Not to Wear"?**

How about combining Top Chef with the Pick-Up Artist?

Today's elimination challenge! Recruit several cute college students to your socialist group while socializing at an Amnesty International benefit.


> Imagine it with me: the look of shame on their face. Their lower lip will
> tremble and they'll fight back tears to be confronted with their
> inadequacies like one is confronted with their inadequacies in the face of
> Cialispam. How fucking awesome! Every good revolutionary needs to be hazed
> into humiliation. It R0x3rz!

Just wait until Stacy and Todd get you into that closet with the mirrors! The Booth of Revolutionary Self-Criticism.


> in exchange for five thousand -- badabingbadaboom -- clams, the lefty cum
> liberal cum Hitchens agrees to come to Kansas, towing their station of The
> Nation, Z Mag, and other pwog wags.

Yikes! Now this is starting to sound more like Survivor.


> Ooooo. I can picture it now. It'll be a hit I tell ya! A hit!

Just leave Brett Michaels out of it.

Chuck

** Note that "How do I Look?" once had an episode where they made over Morgan Spurlock's girlfriend. Kind of like: "My boyfriend ate McDonalds food for a month and I got a makeover to do the red carpet at the Academy Awards."



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