Re: [Marxism] Bizarre nationalist outburst

[Jon Flanders <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's nothing bizarre about it. Every SB has some patriotic effusion
or other. I must say I got a kick of hearing Jefferson's defense of
revolution coming out of the mouths of NFLers.

Jon Flanders


On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:04 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
> As I sit in bed reading Simone De Beauvoir's magnificent "Coming of 
> Age", I have one eye on the television. The Stupid Bowl is about to 
> begin and my home-team NY Giants are about to be annihilated by the 
> New England Patriots. As you might expect, Fox TV used the beginning 
> of the game to run a 5 minute advertisement that consisted of a 
> number of professional football players, both active and retired, 
> reciting the Declaration of Independence in its entirety, which was 
> dedicated to the brave men and women defending our freedom overseas. 
> It was all I could do to stop myself from capsizing the television 
> set in the spirit of Robert DeNiro (Are you talking to me?) in "Taxi Driver".
> 
> 
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