On Oct 17, 2008, at 2:22 PM, joseph noonan wrote:
> More seriously, what the fuck was Paul Craig Roberts doing on
> Democracy Now this morning? This is the second time in a week or so
> she's had some creepy right-winger on the show -- I can't remember
> the other at the moment, but neither of these recent examples was
> anything like the first time either. It's bad enough having lefty
> wackjobs on there, but Roberts is cretinous and he's one of those
> 9/11 conspiranoids to boot. jezus.
The simple-minded left loves him because he says bad things about Bush and the empire. And because he "used" to be a right-winger, this is thought to give him credibility.
Check this out:
<http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10062008.html>
> A Futile Bailout as Darkness Falls on America
>
> By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
>
> America has become a pretty discouraging place. Americans, for the
> most part, will never know what happened to them, because they no
> longer have a free and responsible press. They have Big Brother’s
> press. For example, on September 28, 2008, a New York Times
> editorial blamed the current financial crisis on “antiregulation
> disciples of the Reagan Revolution.”
>
> What utter nonsense. Every example of deregulation that the New
> York Times editorial provides is located in the Clinton
> Administration and the George W. Bush administration. I was a
> member of the Reagan administration. We most certainly did not
> deregulate the financial system.
No, the Reagan admin had nothing to do with it!
Doug