[lbo-talk] Style and Politics, was RE: Libya

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 22 15:00:55 PDT 2011


On Mar 22, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> But Left Forum -- or any other such gathering --
> only has so many up-front spots available. It doesn't
> inspire confidence when they put somebody so silly
> and useless into one.

But the point is, as Alex Cockburn said of the bourgeois press, to fire dense volleys of cliche into the prejudices of the audience.

Doug



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