[lbo-talk] BHL defends DSK

[Andy]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:32 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 1:09 AM, brandelune at gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>> On 18 mai 2011, at 13:42, Mark Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> BHL's piece is a load of shit.
>>
>> Surprise ?
>>
>
> I continue to be fascinated by the mutually reflecting mirrors being held up
> in this French-American story, and how distorted those mirrors are.
>
> In the imagination of most of this piece's American readers, this is a
> showcase for the irretrievably corrupted moral values of the anti-American
> French left. In fact, BHL is neither anti-American (in France he's known as
> the great Atlanticist and scourge of anti-Americanism) nor left (he's close
> to Sarkozy, without even mentioning the 70's anti-left
> "anti-totalitarianism" which made his reputation).

What exactly is BHL's status in France?  Somehow I got the impression
that it was sort of like that of Thomas Friedman's here, but with more
people sharing Matt Taibbi's views.

-- 
Andy