--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:06 AM 1/30/2004 -0800 Davd Brin wrote: > > Yet you defend people who > >regularly spread genuine libel like RAPE and MURDER > at > >the (then) president of the United States? > > But Dr. Brin, aren't you engaging in exactly the > sort of left-right > dichotomy that you have earlier rejected? The > people who raised the > "rape" and "murder" charges were a tiny minority by > almost any measure. > Yet, by painting myself and Gautam as being of the > same stripe as the > Vince-Foster-was-murdered conspiracy nuts, aren't > you justlumping all of us > into the "right?" And by the same token, aren't > leftists just as > responsible for the ravings of Cynthia McKinney and > Howard Dean, and those > who beleive that Bush let the attacks of September > 11th happen?
I agree, there's a spectrum. The difference is that there is a huge industry of such garbage spilling out of Limbaugh and Fox News and CNN, round the clock. > And out of curiosity, does Anita Hill count as being > "genuine libel" as > much as Kathleen Willey in your book? Interesting you should mention that. 1) Willey is a liar. Pure and simple. Everyone who knows Clinton knows he is a sex hound, but an exaggeratedly COURTLY sex hound. Gennifer Flowers, who should know, says that Paula Jones and Willey are baldfaced liars because he would never do such things. 2) I sound lefty to you because I am opposing YOUR foolishness. My lefty friends accuse me of being a rightwing nut and here's one example. Even though I believe every word that Anita Hill said, I think SHE is the grotesquely evil figure in the Thomas case. The actions she described as 'harrassment' were dopey crap of the sort addled nerds like CT will always do. It was her job as a feminist then to gently but firmly set him straight. If anyone on the planet was qualified to do that it was a beautiful young black attorney working for the EEOC! SHe betrayed women by letting it all slide then, in order to ride CT's coat tails. Fine, her choice. But to attack him later was pure opportunism. Fie on her. ===== . . * Please note. My email address of many years is changing FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... (Or else use [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
