#Index Previous Next ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [lbo-talk] RE: Robert Reich media blitz paul childs npchilds at shaw.ca Wed May 26 09:49:35 PDT 2004 * Previous message: [lbo-talk] NPR - leaning right * Next message: [lbo-talk] Re: breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] * Search LBO-Talk Archives ________________________________ Search! Limit search to: (_) Subject & Body (_) Document Size (_) Subject (_) Author Sort by: [Date...] [_] Reverse Sort ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ >The Bush bleat (call that a speech?) indeed fell very flat -- the WH >press office didn't even dare ask the networks to carry it because they >knew the nets would turn them down, and no pundits I saw found anything >in it of greater importance Well, at least one schmuck up here, and a predictable schmuck at that, found it inspiring; http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040526/COGEE26// Contains the usual neocon horseshit about 'staying the course'. I found it inadvertently hilarious as Gee tried to accuse everyone else of sounding desperate, while sounding flat out desperate himself. The only thing that really keeps me from enjoying it is that people are dying as a result of these people's warped dreams of empire. A last observation from a 35 year old Doonesbury cartoon; Mike Doonesbury (to Republican suit advocating 'staying the course' in Vietnam): 'Why is it when you people dig yourselves into a hole you insist on calling it a tunnel with a light at the end?' Suit: 'Touché you little monster'. Welcome to the new hole. PC N P Childs 'I'm Mister Bad Example, the stranger in the dirt, I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt'. -Mr. Bad Example, W Zevon ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Previous message: [lbo-talk] NPR - leaning right * Next message: [lbo-talk] Re: breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ More information about the lbo-talk mailing list