Re: [OT] free Cindy Sheehan!

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Well, almost anyone who is to the left of Pat Robertson and has
gotten her name into the corporate media (or sometimes even just got
featured on an obscure Web site or at a small political rally) can
get onto David Horowitz's list -- even Teresa Heinz Kerry is on
it.  :-0  So, being hated by Horowitz isn't an automatic ticket to
the list of people I would work with.

Modern political communication imposes dilemmas on public speakers.
Those who refuse to be handled by handlers (Ralph Nader) or are
insufficiently groomed by them (Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich) pay a
price; but those who are handled by handlers too much (John F. Kerry,
who in his Vietnam Veterans Against the War days must have actually
believed what he said, whether or not he really wrote his own
speeches even then) just lose their plot (even a capitalist plot) and
become incoherent.  One way or another, political consultants destroy
just about anything left of center, and only Clintons and Blairs
survive.

As for MoveOn Democrats, I could count myself as a MoveOn Democrat,
too, in the sense that I signed at least two of their incessant
petitions (one about the Supreme Court, another about Cindy Sheehan
-- I may have signed something else as well).  But those who pay for
MoveOn and those who manage it -- a very small elite clique, more
tightly and undemocratically organized than any M-L sect -- are no
friends of mine.  Nor are they Cindy Sheehan's (and her supporters'),
I think, if she desires immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq,
as she says she does.

On Aug 26, 2005, at 4:04 PM, tom walker wrote:

> Start here, Yoshie:
>
> http://www.fenton.com/pages/home.htm
>
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12616
>
> There are DLC Democrats and there are MoveOn
> Democrats. The question is, though, who can we work
> with, not who do we trust absolutely. Anyone who lands
> on Horowitz's enemies list deserves at least a fair
> hearing.
>
> Sandwichman

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