And why should anyone care? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] quote du jour
> I suspect the editorial page gang are afraid that Murdoch will back Clinton > (which I don't think is excluded at all). After all, the issue is who can > best continue the Bush course at home and abroad? The Bushites candidate > (the Law and Order and Love Boat ham actor Fred Thompson) is the most likely > Republican nominee. Who else but Clinton -- or even The Clintons -- can > pick up the fallen banner. Who else can block expanded medical care, further > segregation (maybe in the name of multi-culturalism each in their own > separate but as equal as is realistic schools? Above all, who else can > continue the war in Iraq (maybe turn it into a war against the Shia who have > failed so many federal tests, they really should be pushed out of high > school)? > > Above all, who else has a chance to carry the war to Iran and destroy those > semicolonial countries who provoked their fate by trying, on their limited > resources, to compete as equals with imperialism. (Mustn't have that, > theorists of subimperialism and neoimperialism and too-close-to > being-imperialism agree. Vewy destabilizing. REAL semicolonial countries go > along with the program or have simon-pure socialist revolutions -- the only > legitimate responses theorists of sub- or neo-imperialism are prepared to > countenance.) > > But I am convinced that if HE tried to continue and escalate the Iraq war, > or invade Iran, he would quickly disappear without a trace. lists -- many of > whom know a thing or two and let it be known to others -- have good reason > to fear. Maybe O'Grady will become Editor in Chief. Maybe after OGrady > goes upstairs, they will give the Latin American bureau to that Miami Herald > columnist who KNEW that Castro was dead as soon as he knew that Castro was > said to be sick, and who is still pushing his classic work, "Castro's Final > Hour", which was published in 1990. For it is always Castro's Final Hour, is > it not? And are we not all mortal? > > This is the kind of news coverage Murdoch thinks is right on top of things. > Fred Feldman > > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:42 PM > To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] quote du jour > > Jim Devine wrote: > > > > "I would complain about him taking over the Wall Street Journal, but > > its editorial line is already so wacky that Mr. Murdoch's may actually > > be an improvement." -- Juan Cole. > > That's true -- but I think irrelevant because it is the news pages of > the WSJ that count, not the wacky opinion pages. Those are merely > material for the student of social pathology. > > Carrol >
