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2911 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > The grassroots wing of the Tea Parties is a social movement. Trying to > analyze it as a political campaign organization is asinine. Washington Post: > But at least two uncertainties remain. First is the finding, > in an extensive Washington Post canvass conducted last month, > that local tea party groups are less organized and > politically active than previously thought - and that much of > the grassroots organization that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:35:03 PDT 2010

2912 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 1000

[cue the liberal fearmongers to refute this, since they need the TP - via The Awl] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110201301.html> But at least two uncertainties remain. First is the finding, in an extensive Washington Post canvass conducted last month, that local tea party groups are less organized and politically active than previously thought - and that much of the grassrootsorganization that swayed primaries was coordinated and financed by large n ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 14:41:38 PDT 2010

2913 [lbo-talk] comment on WBAI's programming -- rank: 1000

[a Facebook commenter writes...] George Carlin unintentionally nailed WBAI s lame programming when he joked about ...a guy who tells you the King of Sweden is using his penis as a radio transmitter to send anti-semitic lesbian meatloaf recipies to Soupy Sales and Marvin Hamlisch.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 2 09:05:47 PDT 2010

2914 [lbo-talk] prose morsel -- rank: 1000

http://www.theawl.com/slug/what-a-world-2 Well, I mean, really, how do you top this? "Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of suffering from an "uncontrollable sickness" in his relations with women, as the Moroccan teenage belly dancer at the heart of Italy's latest sex scandal said she is writing a book about the affair." @12:20 pm

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 19:04:26 PDT 2010

2915 [lbo-talk] the end of Behind the News -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2010, at 9:36 PM, SA wrote: > This is terrible news...... You've said before that it would be hard to do the show without the support of a station. What would you need to keep doing it? Or would it just not be worth doing without the listenership a station can provide? The listenership of WBAI is a shrinking thing. It's mainly having a studio and an engineer - and the credibility that broadcast provides when trying to get guests. "I do a podcast" won't get me into the Coun ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 1 18:45:59 PDT 2010

2916 [lbo-talk] the end of Behind the News -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/01/the-end-of- behind-the-news / I just got a call from Tony Bates, WBAI s interim program director, informing me that as part of changes to the schedule, my show would be moved from Thursdays at 5 PM to every other Saturday at 10 AM. This is clearly a considerable marginalization, so I m going to quit. The rot of WBAI has been wearing on my nerves, and this change would bring the cost/benefit ratio into seriously negative territory. It s remarkable that an interim pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 14:42:12 PDT 2010

2917 [lbo-talk] Stewart: we're here to sell beer -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Stewart_-Colbert-refuse-to-get-political-1400254-106416218.html> Stewart, Colbert refuse to get political By: Katy Adams and Nikki Schwab Washington Examiner 10/31/10 9:00 PM EDT More than 210,000 people attended Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall on Saturday afternoon according to Comedy Central, and while sanity and/or fear may not have been restored to rallygoers, Stew ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 1 11:17:57 PDT 2010

2918 [lbo-talk] Protest in SF -- rank: 1000

On May 31, 2010, at 5:11 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > There were about 1000 anti-Israeli protesters, which isn't bad > considering the short notice. > > There were about half a dozen pro Israel people. In my interview with him, Norman Finkelstein said that on his recent book tour of the U.S., the only pro-Israeli protesters were at UC- Riverside - and they looked like they were from the Bingo hour at the senior citizens center. Israel's popular support in the U.S. is eroding ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 14:22:06 PDT 2010

2919 [lbo-talk] Israeli propaganda -- rank: 1000

From: "The Israel Project" <press at theisraelproject.org> Date: May 31, 2010 9:37:38 AM EDT To: "Doug Henwood" <Dhenwood at Panix.Com> Subject: Protesters attack with guns and knives, Israel Regrets 10 dead Reply-To: <press at theisraelproject.org> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 31, 2010 Contact: Marcus Sheff: 011-972-2-6236427, marcuss at theisraelproject.org Leah Soibel: 011-972-2-6236427, leahs at theisraelproject.org www.theisraelproject.org Protesters atta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 31 13:24:42 PDT 2010

2920 [lbo-talk] More "school reform" nonsense -- rank: 1000

On May 30, 2010, at 1:06 PM, W. Kiernan wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > Dunno. My guess is that he was speaking from some > > sort of experience, but I didn't ask him for references. > > Yeah, when I read that post I wondered, what was the context for > that remark He was commenting on the somewhat sloppy installation of the a/c filter.

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Date:	Sun May 30 10:41:07 PDT 2010

2921 [lbo-talk] Ha, ha! The US has turned into Third World Country -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2010, at 8:56 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > he EU is a superpower, has its own > central bank, and can print the money to bail itself out. If the sadomonetarists of Frankfurt feel like it.

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Date:	Sat May 29 18:05:41 PDT 2010

2922 [lbo-talk] Kagan, having it both ways -- rank: 1000

> Harvard isn't filled with altruists. The majority of Harvard people > I've encountered have been real assholes -- smug, condescending, > clannish. Especially its comedians. Yalies are generally much nicer > -- haughty, but approachable. Why, thank you. You may approach, young man. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 28 09:49:58 PDT 2010

2923 [lbo-talk] Chomsky regards himself as a supporter of Israel -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Chomsky regards himself as a supporter of Israel and brags about > meeting Walid Jumblat. (Thanks Raed) > > PS It is an extremely disturbing interview (forget about the Israeli > reporter here) but the reference to Israel "harming itself" as Chomsky > put it, is telling enough. No it's not. This is pretty much the same line that Norman Finkelstein took when I interviewed him the other day - Israel is destroying two so ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 09:49:29 PDT 2010

2924 [lbo-talk] Kagan, having it both ways -- rank: 1000

[What an ambitious creep she is.] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052705686.html > Kagan, as Harvard law school dean, pursued two courses on 'don't ask' policy By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 28, 2010 Elena Kagan picked up her phone just before Christmas 2004 and, in an uncharacteristic moment as Harvard Law School dean, dialed the home number of a third-year student. She asked him, a leader of a tiny club of military vet ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 08:48:54 PDT 2010

2925 [lbo-talk] beaches, erosion, etc. -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Gar Lipow wrote: > There is another source of opposition to, ideological opposition. > Something I would describe as seeking "strength through despair". > There various positions across the political spectrum that are based > on the premise that we are doomed that there is nothing we can do. And > for someone holding that position the idea that we can produce > non-polluting electricity is just false hope that distracts from the > on-co ...

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Date:	Fri May 28 08:22:40 PDT 2010