On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:47 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Seems very unfair to criticize a man over his style, but in this case there
> is just this overwhelming effect of fakeness....as you say....
>
> Perhaps he has spent too many years being an official academic radical. Who
> knows? or cares?
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:36:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum
>
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:50:16 +0000 (UTC)
> 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > Well, I don't know what his problem is, but I found I could not watch
> > him more than a few minutes.
>
> Yes. I had the same experience. It was obscurely embarrassing; made
> one squirm.
>
> I was trying to figure out why (apart from West's usual shallow
> platitudinousness, I mean).
>
> Best I could come up with: it was like watching a tasteless and
> untalented parody of, say, Jesse Jackson, performed by a white guy
> in burnt cork, false beard, and fright wig.
>
> The beard in particular looked as if it might have been left
> over from a high-school production of The Merchant of Venice,
> or perhaps a Midwestern Christmas pageant.
>
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>
> Michael J. Smith
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