[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn is funny

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 16:09:03 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:19 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A reminder that Cockburn has taken many unpopular stands: against the ADL and SPLC, and exposing the childcare witch-hunting hysteria of the 1980s. He despises liberal hypocrisy worst of all, especially when it combines repression of "hate speech" with war-mongering. He's particularly got Proyect's goat in relation to Libya, without which one can't understand the current affair.

It would be more interesting if it didn't come across as reflexive contrarianism, like he's a badass or something.

-- Andy



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