> > � � So her rhetoric is over-the-top, but her basic > > position > > doesn't seem too far out. > > The prosecution rests. >
Huh? What does that mean? How does what he said prove the case? It seems to me the opposite. She has been put forward as an example of an extremist whom liberals should denounce. But the examples given make her seem somewhat less extreme to me than, say, a person writing a book essentially accusing every liberal in American history of being deliberate traitors, or of a religious leader blaming Americans he disagrees with for a terrorist attack on our country. If you want to argue that the left needs to police itself the way you claim the right does, I would respond that I don't know of too many left-wingers who get the kind of attention that Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson do. Noam Chomsky is an extremist, but he has about as much influence in world politics as I do. It's a simple matter of who is listening - Coulter and Robertson get more attention because they get more attention. They SHOULD be denounced, by everyone. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
