[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Jun 17 15:08:30 PDT 2009


On Jun 17, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:43:04 -0400
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Is a white hick who voted for Bush or McCain at all duped?
>
> Isn't Huey Long maybe a better analogy?

No, no, no. Huey Long was the most radical, least racist, American politician of the past century and more. That's why he was killed (and slandered by all the Rooseveltians as well as the "Southern" novelist, Robert Penn Warren).

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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