On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Fifteen years earlier, Laura Flanders occasionally interviewed her uncle (yes, Alex Cockburn was Laura's proud uncle!) on her show, WBAI -- out of sheer stupidity -- never featured Alexander Cockburn or provided regular access for this most stunningly wide-ranging and incisive radical voice. Cockburn would regularly eviscerate Empire in his weekly "Beat the Devil" columns in the Nation and delighted in slicing up the "sacred cows" on the Left as well, and his writings had influenced two generations of activists -- but management could not make room for his rapier wit and scathing commentary on WBAI's renowned and finely-tuned humor-filled schedule. (ahem!)
I interviewed Alex about a year before his death. WBAI didn't get to broadcast it, alas, though KPFA did.
Doug