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24691 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood & Levy -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Do you think he >suffers from lack of exposure? Are there no more >interesting people to have on than BHL? What about all >the Monde Diplomatique crew like Ignacio Ramonet or >Serge Halimi etc? Or people from the Manifesto in >Italy and so on... Heavens, I spend most of my radio life trying to expose the underexposed - academics, thinktankers, journalists, etc., who get little attention from any broadcast media. Take a look at the guestlist at <http://www ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 10 07:40:01 PDT 2003

24692 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Is the measure of one's worth how amusing one is? Oh come on. The more I think about this the more it annoys me. Does every interviewee have to have an Amy Goodman seal of approval?

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 13:14:08 PDT 2003

24693 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood & Levy -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Any particular reason Levy is on? Why not? He's a celebrity, he's written a weird and occasionally interesting book, and he says stuff that's not often in the American media. I don't approve of everyone I interview, you know. I've interviewed Wanniski and Hitchens too. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 13:04:13 PDT 2003

24694 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Are self-promoting-hack or charlatan occupational >categories? Who cares which imaginary American >category fits him? Does everyone who doesnt fit into >American categories get points? In France he is the >very epitomy of opportunism. Can you read French? Do >you want examples? I've heard all this. He's not a wind-up neocon, and he's pretty amusing. I'm sorry I didn't get to see his hair. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 13:00:42 PDT 2003

24695 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On BH Levy, ask him about French maoist and PCF intellectuals. Too late - I did the interview two weeks ago and just edited it for broadcast. His declamatory style strained the phone lines and my minidisc recorder! Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 12:59:37 PDT 2003

24696 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Right-wing or not, I am driven by love of a well >turned phrase and stylish insouciance to have some >degree of affection for a fellow who can say such >things and inspire such strong and clever reactions. I just finished editing the interview. He's very entertaining - a real performer, and not without substance. He would not fit easily into any American occupational or ideological category. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 12:44:59 PDT 2003

24697 [lbo-talk] Re: crazy? -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >Saw this down the page for the second link: > >--A portrait of Sam Smith, the most honorable of America's liberal >voices. > >I wonder what "most honorable" means in this context... Most anti-Clinton and most friendly to right populism, I suspect. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 12:42:50 PDT 2003

24698 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > I noticed in the footnotes to the Napoleoni, she cites the >(unfootnoted) work of Y. Bodansky on Osama. Bodansky is a hard right >source. So? How important is that? Is what Napoleoni quotes inaccurate? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 12:23:50 PDT 2003

24699 [lbo-talk] radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today, on my radio show - 5-6 PM eastern U.S. time, WBAI, 99.5 FM New York and <http://www.wbai.org>. Two authors who think the "war on terror" is aimed at all the wrong people: * Bernard Henri-Levy on his new book, Who Killed Danny Pearl? BHL has the rep of being a right-wing hack, but he opposed the war on Iraq, supports a Palestinian state, thinks the real problem with jihadism is in Pakistan. * Loretta Napoleoni on the economics of terror, focusing on Saudi Arabian ideologica ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 11:50:46 PDT 2003

24700 [lbo-talk] prop 54 exit poll -- rank: 1000

Demographics of the Prop 54 ("racial privacy initiative") vote: >According to our Edison/Mitofsky California Exit Poll the Prop 54 >vote broke out this way by race/ethinicity: > >Whites - 58-42 No >Blacks - 79-21 No >Hispanics/Latinos - 70-30 No > >By Education: >High School Grad - 69-31 No >Some College - 59-41 No >College Grad - 59-41 No >Postgraduage Study - 64-36 No > >By Region: >L.A. County - 68-32 No >Southern California (Not L.A. ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 11:44:36 PDT 2003

24701 [lbo-talk] the Terminator wing of the GOP -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 9, 2003 RUDY AND THE STRONGMAN BRING MUSCLE TO GOP By DEBORAH ORIN IT'S the Terminator wing of the Republican Party and it's growing. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani are now the nation's top Republican stars, after President Bush. They're both pro-choice, pro-gun control and pro-gay rights, but what they really share is a take-charge, optimistic belief that scary problems - street crime, terrorism, economic messes - can be fought and defeated. Rudy and Arnold are ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 09:02:38 PDT 2003

24702 [lbo-talk] recall punditry -- rank: 1000

[from ABC News's daily political commentary, The Note <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html>] >Here is the harsh-but-spot-on analysis of what happened from a >Brilliant Democrat: > >1. Optimism trumps pessimism. > >2. Referendum on hated incumbent will produce defeat no matter how >flawed challenger is (see: Florio versus Whitman, 1993) > >3. Democratic Party does not have moral platform to attack sexually >harassing candidates (notice ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 08:59:49 PDT 2003

24703 [lbo-talk] Gallup: 45% of Americans think media too liberal -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Liberal means: unpatriotic, America-hating, homo >pedophile-tolerating, criminal-loving, n*gg*r-loving, >faggy, soft, weak, socialistic, pansy, wimpy, >overeducated, impractical, unrealistic, Jewish, >antiChristian, secular-humanist, God-hating, New >York-San Francisco-Massachusetts, commie pinko >pretentious, condescending, pro-abortion, anti-family, >free-loving, sodomistic. Most of these things sound pretty good (though some families are ok, ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 07:37:48 PDT 2003

24704 [lbo-talk] An invitation to join an international anti-US bases network -- rank: 1000

AN INVITATION TO JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-US BASES E-MAIL NETWORK Dear friends, The United States maintains military bases and other forms of military presence in over 100 countries. This network of bases is crucial for the US to project power around the world -- in pursuit of its economic and strategic interests. In order to prevent the US from waging its illegitimate wars, the global peace and justice movement must campaign for the shutting down of these bases or ending other forms of mili ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 07:35:13 PDT 2003

24705 [lbo-talk] Fresh Air traumatizes O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >What. A. Weenie. > >http://freshair.npr.org/ > >-- Shane The site's not responding. What happened? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 07:25:44 PDT 2003