[lbo-talk] "I like rightists"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 5 13:06:08 PDT 2009


On May 5, 2009, at 3:59 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> At 03:39 PM 5/5/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> On May 5, 2009, at 3:30 PM, SA wrote:
>>
>>> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>>
>>>> I await commentary from Cde Cox on this passage.
>>>
>>> Haven't you heard? It doesn't matter because the truth is the whole.
>>
>> Either that or Nixon was lying.
>
>
> I'm confused as to what this is a reference to? Or is this some
> convo going on at Pen-l?

Here. It started when I posted a quote from the libretto to John Adams' Nixon in China (by Alice Goodman). In it, Mao said he liked rightists. I asked if this was true. Apparently it is. Since Cde Cox loves Mao and hates rightists, well, you can guess the rest.

Doug



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