[lbo-talk] more noxious crap

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 2 08:55:49 PDT 2009


On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Eric Beck wrote:


> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, shag carpet bomb
> <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> yeah. but the point in contention is doug's argument that liberals
> would
>> never get to the point of dogging _any_ democrat out of principle,
>> no matter
>> how unpopular.
>
> I didn't see that as being the point of contention, but I completely
> agree with it. Conservatives at least had the nerve to eventually
> jettison Bush, but liberals stuck to Clinton to the very end.

The official, if not always explicitly stated, editorial directive at The Nation is that you can criticize Dems on individual policies, but you can't globally denounce them as the scumbags and tools they are.

Doug



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