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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">That's Henwood's word, but I agree.<br>Have you read what she's written and think we're wrong? --CGE<br>
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<div>I hear her on Bill Moyers' show all the time, and think she's right most of the time.</div>
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<div>Even if you disagree with certain of Lacewell's positions, "execrable" is about 50,000 times too harsh a term. It loses all meaning when bandied about so cavalierly. What term, then, do you use for some of these right-wing warmongering Zionist nutjobs whom you love to hate?</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">John W. wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">So now Melissa Harris-Lacewell is "execrable", Carl? I daresay reasonable<br>minds might disagree.<br><br><br><br></div>
<div class="im">On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" target="_blank">galliher@illinois.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu" target="_blank">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br><br><br>The Nation magazine has moved steadily to "the center" from an earlier<br>left-liberal position for some years now. They embraced neo-liberalism in the<br>days of Bill Clinton (delicately referred to as a "DLC Democrat"), and some<br>
of us condemned them for doing it.<br><br>But it keeps getting worse. As Doug Henwood of the excellent Left Business<br>Observer points out, now not only has The Nation "given a column to the<br>execrable Melissa Harris-Lacewell, they've cut Alexander Cockburn back to<br>
once a month ... These moves together have the net effect of moving the<br>magazine to the right and reducing the quantity of stylish prose close to<br>zero."<br><br>With The Progressive joining the Israel Lobby in its condemnation of Norman<br>
Finkelstein, the current mode of official liberalism in the US continues on<br>its regime-supporting way, providing only token opposition ("We have free<br>speech!") as the Democrats (and the Republicans) move ever further right.<br>
Toadies.<br><br>--CGE</div></blockquote></blockquote><br>
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