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[I think this was intended for the list.]
I guess PB waited for Cockburn to drop dead before throwing mud on him.
I guess he didn't want to attack Cockburn while he was alive and
possibly get a reply in return. From PB's New Republic article:
"My greatest sin, in his eyes, was to write critically about the
Sandinistas and their revolution in Nicaragua, where the Spanish Civil
War seemed never to have ended. Soviet machinations, cynical propaganda,
fanatically deluded international volunteers—
everything from the 1930s
that Orwell describes in Homage to Catalonia was all too visible in
Nicaragua fifty years later, naturally in different versions. Sometimes
in the same version: at the Soviet Embassy in Managua, elderly veterans
of the Spanish war formed part of the military staff. My reports from
Nicaragua hinted at these developments."
[...]
"[Cockburn's] readership appears to be, in short, a potpourri of sulky
university students, nursing-home Bolsheviks..."
Whatever they are, I'm sure PB's audience can't hold a candle to them.
I doubt PB has much of an audience, but publishers like NR and so forth
probably like his drivel...
"But credibility was also not [Cockburn's] thing. His thing was
vilification....Cockburn’s feats of vilification"
I guess PB doesn't see the irony in repeatedly accusing Cockburn of
vilification, in a piece which is nothing but vilification of Cockburn.
I mean, it's supposed to be a book review, but he spends most of the
time vilifying someone who can't fight back any more (and then to pour
it on, he spends a few paragraphs vilifying Cockburn's father as well).
Barf!
-- AVL
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