[lbo-talk] getting out more

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 2 11:11:51 PDT 2012


On 6/2/2012 10:04 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote:


> Yeah, another great interview. Dery has come up before here. I was
> looking in the archive to see if I posted anything. No, but there were
> often references to him. Can that guy talk or what?

I like when he calls Dylan a "confabulated self-fabricated self" and Doug says "starting with his name".

Here's the Eartha Kitt episode someone mentioned earlier:

[...]

No one in Obama’s entourage would care to see a repeat of the 1968 incident in which singer Eartha Kitt, invited to a White House luncheon, told Lady Bird Johnson—the president’s wife—to her face, “You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed [in Vietnam]. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.”

[...]

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/meda-j01.shtml



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