[lbo-talk] Strange bedfellows

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 17 12:13:42 PDT 2008


On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:00 PM, joseph noonan wrote:


> 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.

As twisted as the right can be, at least they sorta understand political conflict and what's at stake. The "left," e.g. DN, is deeply confused about all this. Pacificans love all that alterna-money nonsense.



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