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Personally, I think debating the substance of such a strange accusation against someone like Amy Goodman is bizarre. Obviously anyone can level any accusation against anyone and then demand a response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elRxbGJuCw8 The article that Clay wrote appears to suggest that anyone who second-guessed US government reports that the Syrian regime committed the Ghouta attack is a regime apologist, and that is apparently Amy Goodman's crime. Since that attack took place, individuals who have independently established their longtime credibility on issues of reporting war and peace, independent of Syria, have questioned that narrative, Seymour Hersh being the most prominent. Others have pointed out very serious flaws in Hersh's argument, in particular that he relied on secret government sources that may very well have preferred having the US government continue to work closely with the Syrian regime in the name of counter-terrorism. I don't think there is anything wrong with someone like Amy Goodman reporting on a diversity of perspectives on the left about an unfolding tragedy, when it is not clear, especially at the time of reporting, who was doing what. To say that such questioning makes her an Assad mouthpiece is little more than a smear. It also means we are not allowed to question the stated position of a sitting US president who was fronting as though he was ready to advocate for regime change, even if that was not in fact the Administration's actual intention. This is, to put it lightly, a touchy subject. We should be able to disagree on it without being labelled neocon interventionists or regime apologists. - Amith On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On 5/4/15 1:49 PM, Ron Jacobs wrote: > >> Actually, Louis. I'm used to you and Clay doing your thing. My skin is >> plenty thick. Given your often over-the-top responses to those who >> disagree with your take on events makes me wonder about your epidermis, >> though. >> >> > Well, look. Clay wrote an attack on Democracy Now. If you wanted to defend > Amy Goodman, you could have written a substantive reply. Instead you just > referred to "McCarthyism" on Marxmail. The floor is still open for you to > defend Amy Goodman. I rarely check out Democracy Now but would welcome a > debate on the ISSUES. > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
