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Re: Invective



old EVD used some anti-Indian rhetoric there. But no matter, what did
GG say about Hitch?

On 6/10/05, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... or Eugene V.
> Debs used against Teddy Roosevelt in 1918:
> 
> "This political pet of the plutocrats, this bogus reformer, this shrieking
> charlatan, this raving mountebank, this crazy-horse of Oyster Bay ranch,
> this blood and thunder prophet, this opera bouffe ghostdancer, this blatant
> quack hero, this freak of froth and foam and buncombe, this nauseating
> moralizer, this dysenteric scold, this chattering midwife and meddler and
> all-around nuisance has buncoed the people long enough and they at last
> know him for what he is, at least those of them who have mentality above a
> shell-fish, and who can tell a jibbering fraud after he has exhibited
> himself to them daily for a score of years."

-- 
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.



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