response to the response to Mike Eisenstadt's critique
Frances Morey
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Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:09:10 -0500 (EST)
Okay, Wayne,
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I can well imagine a fish riding a bicycle, but a parrot? What gives?
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--- On Jan 22, 2002, Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
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> Well, Jonster...yuk, yuk...it takes one to know one.
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>
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>
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> Meanwhile, my bicycle has developed a parrot.
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>
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> B
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Jon Ford [mailto:jonmfordster@hotmail.com]
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 12:06 AM
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> To: cadaobh2@brgnet.com; paramod@club-internet.fr; michaele@ando.pair.com
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> Cc: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
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> Subject: Re: response to the response to Mike Eisenstadt's critique
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>
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> Wayne-- this is an uncanny post-- it is as if you have penetrated the
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> deep
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> unconscious raving sub-mind of moronic Texans and other right-wing idiots
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> everywhere! And of course, Mike fits in there somewhere-- even though,
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> ironically, he is in some ways quite the francophile!
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>
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> Jon
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> >From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>
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> >To: "Joseph H. Rowe" <paramod@club-internet.fr>,
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> "Michael Eisenstadt"
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> ><michaele@ando.pair.com>
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> >CC: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
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> >Subject: response to the response to Mike Eisenstadt's critique
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> >Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:59:32 -0500
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> >
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> >Those Frenchified deGaullistas, fluer-de-lis yellow journalistic
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> >anti-American Papists are NOT to be trusted. Who can take any man
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> >seriously
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> >whose name is Honore or Pierre for that matter. Real men have at
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> least two
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> >MANLY names like Joe and Bob and Billy and Butch, not Jean-Paul or
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> Lucien
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> >or
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> >Auguste. What a bunch of poofs! Our British cousins no better and,
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> after
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> >many, many, many generations of warfare and intra-club breeding (when
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> not
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> >co-mingling with Germans) have come to think of the French as
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> "Foreigners"
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> >if not simply...frogs. Like who wants to read a
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> "newspaper" named for an
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> >Italian opera? You can't be serious.
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> >
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> >As we here in the Old Dominion well know, only the Rev. Moon's
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> Washington
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> >Times kind of newspaper can be trusted to tell the Truth and the
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> Whole
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> >Truth
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> >just like God and Jesus and Martin Luther and Father Coughlin and Pat
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> >Robertson intended it to be told. I mean, come on, can you have any
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> >respect
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> >for a culture that eats snails? Yukk. Real culture eat cattle
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> testicles
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> >and brains. How do think the Bush Family (in all there
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> Minionesqueness)
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> >got
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> >to be so darn smart? How do you think it was that Ken Lay was able to
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> fool
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> >all those people and run off with their money? Not from eating slugs
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> and
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> >snails, I'll tell you. Nosirree, these men ate VERTEBRATES and drank
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> beer
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> >(back before GWB found Jesus, he had found Bud & Coors & Lone
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> Star & Shiner
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> >& Falstaff and other REAL AMERICAN beers. No St. Pauli ale for
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> him.
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> >Nosir!) Only Frogs and
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> >California-limp-wristed-quiche-sucking-commie-tree-huggers drink
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> wine.
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> >(Unless, of course, it is real German-American-Texican wine from New
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> >Braunsfels. Or Killeen. As in the treasured 1997 vintage Chateau
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> du
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> >Goethe Gewurstramminer! )
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> >
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> >No sir. You are better off digging out your old Fulton Lewis Jr.
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> tapes and
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> >listening to them.
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> >
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> >Bubba
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> >
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> >(Life time subscriptions to the Star are available at really good
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> rates.
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> >There are still a couple of hundred issues with the Hubble photographs
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> of
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> >Heaven available at lowered cost to you, dear readers.)
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> >
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> >-----Original Message-----
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> >From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
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> >[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Joseph H.
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> Rowe
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> >Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 11:51 AM
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> >To: Michael Eisenstadt
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> >Cc: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
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> >Subject: response to Mike Eisenstadt's critique
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> >
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> > >I wouldnt take what Joe Rowe forwarded very seriously. The
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> > >Figaro is not itself a very serious newspaper and the notion
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> > >that Osama would check in to the American Hospital in Dubai
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> > >for a procedure last summer beggars belief. At least my belief.
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> >
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> > >Mike Eisenstadt
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> > Mike, I'm not sure what your criteria for a
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> "serious:" newspaper
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> >are. Le Figaro is one of the top establishment dailies in France, and
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> >whether or not you agree with its politics (which I generally don't),
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> it is
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> >at least as "serious" a paper as any big American daily
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> owned by a giant
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> >media corporation. It has a highly professional staff of
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> international
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> >correspondents and reporters. Major writers have occasionally written
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> >articles for it, including Jean Paulhan, André Malraux, and others.
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> > Le Figaro can be criticized for many things, but it is
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> absolutely
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> >not a scandal-sheet or sensationalist tabloid, as you seem to
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> insinuate.
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> >And if you suppose for one moment that the TOTAL BLACKOUT of this
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> story in
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> >the mainstream American press is due to the wise discrimination of
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> >American editors, who agree with you that Le Figaro is "not
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> serious" (and
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> >their rags supposedly are!), then either you are incredibly naive ---
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> which
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> >I know not to be the case --- or else you are rationalizing your own
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> >reluctance to admit that you, too, mon cher ami, are capable of
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> being
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> >misled and fooled by the American media. I say this because you
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> curiously
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> >had nothing at all to say about the essay's _other_ important
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> evidence
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> >that the CIA had ample, serious warnings about an impending suicide
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> >airliner attack, and did nothing about it. This evidence is
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> thoroughly
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> >documented, and there is even more of it at the websites mentioned.
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> This
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> >would support the thesis that the CIA was uninterested in going after
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> bin
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> >Laden until the time was "right" ---- whether or not Le
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> Figaro's source
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> >turns out to be reliable.
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> > I personally don't believe in an active conspiracy, but the
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> >evidence seems to indicate a passive one: "OK, if those damn
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> democrats
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> >won't give us a proper military budget, we'll let them find out what
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> >terrorism is really all about!" Nevertheless, such a passive
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> conspiracy
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> >would be almost as heinous and criminal as an active one, at least in
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> my
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> >system of ethics. If such a conspiracy of deliberate negligence does
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> exist,
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> >as the evidence suggests, then it has certainly achieved its
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> objective, in
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> >spades: a blank check from terrified taxpayers to the
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> military-industrial
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> >complex, a devaluing of dissent and civil rights, and a very
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> promising
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> >replacement for the Cold War.
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> > I recommend that you (or any other reader of this) visit the
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> >website http://www.copvcia.com and inform yourself, before engaing in
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> more
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> >polemics about a whole area of current events of which you are bound
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> to be
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> >ignorant, if you depend only on the likes of the New York Times, the
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> >Washington Post, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, etc, etc..... to find out about
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> >current events.
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> >
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> >
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> >Joseph
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> >
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> >Joseph Rowe
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> >chez Arcosud
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> >1, rue Constance, code porte 0118
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> >75018 Paris, France
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> >
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> >tel. (331) 42 55 18 92
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