[lbo-talk] Strange bedfellows

[joseph noonan]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> 
>> 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!

That's *exactly* what he said this morning as I was exiting the freeway -- 
I almost plowed into the side of a Big Box Store!  And neither of them 
called him on it either.  Please, I know the sins of Clinton (repeal of 
Glass-Steagul amongst them), but those were final strokes, not the opening 
shots by a long way.  Amy never challenged that.

Although he didn't show these colors on the show today, he's also really 
xenophobic and nativist, with a distinct whiff of gold-buggery (heh, i 
like that formulation) and The Fed, The Trilaterals, and The Queen of 
England Run the World thing going on.  That shit probably increases his 
popularity at Counterpuke.

Sigh.  That's why I listen to wingnut AM radio so much, I am at least
expecting right wing lunacy when I turn it on.

-j