Well, I guess that's why Counterpunch doesn't go out of business - because there are people on the left who worship the dogma more than they give a shit about the truth. Once a Trot, always a Trot.
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the last graf in the Guardian article suggests that Jeff St. > Clair is closer to the mark than you: > > Sanders’ campaign director, Jeff Weaver, told reporters he did not > “anticipate we are going to contest” specific results but hoped there > would be an investigation into what happened. > > You know what they say about hope and change. > > On 2/5/16 8:56 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > Compare: > > > > Lead paragraph, Counterpunch: > > > > "Did Hillary Clinton really win the diversionary spectacle known as the > > Iowa Caucuses by two-tenths of a percent? Probably not. But we will > > never know. Why? Because Bernie Sanders refuses to call the results into > > question and demand the release the raw vote totals, which would likely > > show the senator won the actual vote by a decisive margin." > > > > to > > > > Bernie Sanders wants raw vote count released after tight finish in Iowa > > caucuses > > Dramatic clash with Hillary Clinton for Democratic presidential > > nomination is sign public want change, says leftwing senator > > > http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/02/bernie-sanders-requests-vote-count-tight-finish-iowa-caucus-clinton > > > > This is the problem with Counterpunch. They just don't give a flying > > fuck whether anything they say is true. > > > > > > > > Robert Naiman > > Policy Director > > Just Foreign Policy > > www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org> > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > In reality, the Sanders revolution was over before it started. The > > revolutionary aspiration expired the moment Sanders to run in the > > Democratic Party primaries, instead of as an independent, where he > might > > have proved a real menace to the neoliberal establishment. > > > > Revolutions aren’t led by well-meaning wimps. Revolutions are about > > seizing power. They are about righting wrongs. Revolutions demand > fierce > > confrontation and, as Robespierre might say, sharply-administered > > accountability. But Sanders was never interested in a real > revolution. > > He’s more Hubert Humphrey than Che Guevara–a timid reformer, an > old-time > > liberal ranting in the antechambers of a party that has long since > made > > its Faustian bargain with the agents of austerity. For the Democrats, > > there’s no going back from that deal of shame. > > > > Left and right, the sour mood of the country burns for a true > political > > and economic rebellion. It may well happen. But look for it out on > the > > streets, not in the hollow rituals of these elections. > > > > > http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/05/when-chivalry-fails-st-bernard-and-the-machine/ > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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