[lbo-talk] New Republic

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri Oct 2 09:54:49 PDT 2009


How was the NR able to accomodate Ridgeway and Kopkind a few years later?

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:46:14PM -0400, SA wrote:
>
> I think you're right that the original premise of this thread - that NR
> whitewashed Bush the way the Nation does Obama - which I accepted at
> first, is wrong. Any political bloc will have its cheerleading yahoos
> and its intellectuals. Under Bush, the yahoos may have given the White
> House a pass, but the intellectuals never did. But then, the
> progressives don't really have intellectuals, do they?

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