DH:
>You just got the ballot? What a nightmare. They used the wrong mailing
list and sent it bulk mail. Apparently they did the same >with the
replacement - is it first class or bulk?
>That ACE mailer is a deceptive piece of crap put together by direct
marketing whiz Steve Brown, a man who got rich through late >night TV
ads, selling junk to the gullible. He laid out the thing to make it
look like I was endorsing the slate - and not just me, but >Noam
Chomsky too. He quoted something I wrote and used my pic without ever
asking me. He doesn't say it's an endorsement - >it's just supposed to
look that way, which is how everyone takes it. He used a DVD of
Chomsky speaking as a come-on in that >mailer without Chomsky's
approval, and to his great annoyance. When I complained, Brown's
response was basically, "tough!" Same >to Chomsky's agent.
>So fuck 'em. Just stick with the people that Esther & I & the rest
endorsed.
Meanwhile the conspiracy zanies are accusing you of laying down in the sack with the corporate takeover gang! Arrrrgh... double jeopardy indeed.
But look on the positive side, you are regarded as a left celebrity in the same pantheon as Chomsky...
FROM AN ERSTWHILE QUASI-NEW YORKER TRANSPLANT WHO IS NOT A WBAI MEMBE
_________________________________________________________________ Find the right PC with Windows 7 and Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/pc-scout/laptop-set-criteria.aspx?cbid=wl&filt=200,2400,10,19,1,3,1,7,50,650,2,12,0,1000&cat=1,2,3,4,5,6&brands=5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16&addf=4,5,9&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen2:112009