[lbo-talk] Tuesday evening report from OWS

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Oct 27 19:00:54 PDT 2011


On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> But clearly, Doug, she too has really annoyed
> some of us. You can't seriously think this
> comes out of nowhere? She's taken a strong
> position, which is very much to her credit as far
> as it goes. But good Lord, how old is she?
>
> One has the sense of a person still groping
> her way, and badly handicapped by a glib
> pomo vocabulary and perhaps also an elite-college
> feeling that she's got to be smartest person in
> the room, ex officio.

This from a guy who goes around correcting people's Latin?

Really, there's a vitriolic edge to the critiques of Jodi that I don't get. It seems to go beyond substance to some sort of personal animus.

Doug



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