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Cockburn says, “Because Paul had deprecated the ADA, on Democracy Now! on Friday morning Amy Goodman even fished some spavined old nag from that dismal body to join her in execration of the Slouching Beast that is Rand.” http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05212010.html. Here, Squire Cockburn brings his knowledge of horse ailments to the aid of another sexist assault, following up on last weekend's heehaw about thick-jawed dykes. But he is lapsing more and more into incoherence: this ADA is not a “body,” but an act (the Americans with Disabilities Act), and the spokesman for the A.D.A. on Democracy Now! was a stallion, not a nag: Mike Ervin, “a freelance journalist and a longtime activist with the disability rights groups ADAPT.” Could Cockburn be confusing this A.D.A. with Americans for Democratic Action? Different things altogether, old chap. The rest of Cockburn’s piece lurches incoherently from one position to another, including the blissful counterfactual that, if Rand had wanted to, he could have moved away from Rachel Madow’s questions about the 1964 Civil Rights Act to a discussion of “what has happened to blacks since that glorious day, from an appalling school system, to blighted housing, constricted employment possibilities, shriveled share of the national income and most recently the great transfer in US history of money and assets from African Americans to rich white people by the mortgage speculators, given free rein by Democrats and Republicans.” Yes, he could have, if he’d been Bernie Sanders (excoriated in this piece) or Kevin Gray. But he isn’t. He’s Rand Paul, and he wants Lester Maddox to be able to refuse service to whomever he damned well pleases. The weed up Petrolia way seems to be excellent this year. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
