[PEN-L:11252] Re: bingo

["William S. Lear" <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, July 12, 1997 at 08:43:22 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes, quoting
 the execrable Paul J. Isaac:

> [one big fat SNIP]

What a whining, pathetic, and cowardly review---just what you'd expect
from a Wall Street toadie, I suppose.  This pastiche of Henwood's book
predictably avoids addressing the issues raised, preferring to point
fingers elsewhere.

Henwood cites Marx approvingly and cogently, and Isaac pulls his
wrinkled thumb out of his mouth for the classic misdirected response
of the criminal thumbsucker, pointing to ghosts of the past that
Henwood himself disdains: "But *they* abused the world, you see!".

His faux concern for workers (for some reason, he feels the need to
put this word in quotes, perhaps because to him, as in discourse among
the similarly privileged, there is no such creature---just firms,
their management, and shareholders---as Henwood himself points out) is
disgusting, as is his Captain America approach to describing the
economy with empty emotional scare phrases and the standard gurgling
of the corporate shill ("American prosperity", "modernity",
"regulation initiatives", etc.).

He might as well get out the flag and wave it around, call Henwood a
Commie Symp, and save Barron's the expense of printing such a demented
and trivializing "review".


Bill