> From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chomsky is generally repulsive - but people who claim > the dissent is marginalized should remember that this > anti-Semitic, anti-American bigot is the most cited > scientist in the world, and not just because of his > linguistics. When he spoke at Harvard while I was > there he spoke to a packed and laudatory house, while > Harvard professors introduced him as a legendary > "American dissident". Being an apologist for > totalitarian dictators gets you brownie points on the > modern left, apparently. > > Katha Pollitt, among many other things, famously > forbade her daughter from flying an American flag > after September 11th because it was a symbol of, IIRC, > jingoism and hate. > > If that _doesn't_ bother you, then it explains why the > left has no traction in the United States. If it > does, remember that the right's extremists are policed > by the right as much as by the left, and it might be > worth thinking why someone who believes that edits > _The Nation_, the most influential magazine of the > Left in America. Pat Buchanan doesn't exactly run > National Review.
No but Pat buchannan did give indorsement to _The new american_ a john birch publication, with extremist views, like defending dictators like augusto pinochet: http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/pinochet/index.htm _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
