From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 22:47:52 GMT
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> From: joedees@bellsouth.net
>
> > Edward Said, Robert Fisk and Noam Chomsky are equally ubiquitous.
>
> really? to whom? chomsky's bar far the most "popular" and he was shut
> out of the NY Times for years and his books, until recently, were
> published in the many small (read: unavailable in major bookstores)
> presses. most americans probably couldn't tell you about fisk or said.
>
> neither of these men have television shows. neither of these is
> available for mass consumption...unless you consider academic books
> about the middle east to be mass consumption.
>
> you're comparing people like rush limbaugh and o'reilly to people
> whose work is made available mostly to academics.
>
> therefore, the ability for the three "ubiquitous lefties" to be
> contagious is limited. in fact, you might say the left is quarantined
> to live in offices on some college campuses.
>
> alfred
>
The biggest problem the anti-war left has is that the most influential
liberals are Iraqi regime change hawks - and for good reason.
See
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/08/magazine/08LIBERALS.html?8hpib
=&pagewanted=print&position=top
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