[lbo-talk] Protests being planned around the world in support of WikiLeaks` Julian Assange

[Wojtek S]

[WS:} But then Michael Moore used personal embarrassment and ridicule as the
main toll of his critique.  If memory serves he said something along the
lines that corporate functionaries are immune to factual critique because
for every fact they can manufacture a counter-fact, but they have no way of
responding to ridicule.  Tricky Dick would reportedly get personally upset
when criticized in public. Obama is said to act likewise
http://politisite.com/2010/06/08/obama-cant-take-criticism-from-the-press-nixon-like-hostility/

I have no way of knowing of sure, but I do not think that most functionaries
have super-human, stoic qualities.  I am more inclined to think that many of
them are petulant petty pieces of shit that learned how to hide their
emotions under the mask of officialdom and canned speech.

Wojtek