> One of these days I am going to collect all my crank letters to the liberal muck-a-mucks of the world--and their replies--and try to get it published as "Crank Letters from a Marxist Upstart".)<
with _The Lazlo Letters_ and _Citizen Lazlo! The Lazlo Letters Volume 2_ by Don Novello (Workman Publishing Company, New York, 1977, 1992), it could make a triology.
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:30782] An exchange with Jonathan Alter
> (Newsweek editor)
>
>
> (This was prompted by Alter's column at
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/814574.asp which states, among
> other things, that
> "Divestment may be only a fall fad on college campuses, but
> it's political
> nitroglycerin." One of these days I am going to collect all my crank
> letters to the liberal muck-a-mucks of the world--and their
> replies--and
> try to get it published as "Crank Letters from a Marxist Upstart".)
>
> To: "'Louis Proyect'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Anti-Semitism
>
> good points, except the suck up part (I guess you didn't hear
> me call him
> an "easy lay" last week after he turned tail and began
> kissing up to jack
> welch)...i'm jewish and i don't like his occasional comments
> about jews.
> i'm not black but i don't like his skits (he doesn't make
> racist comments
> himself) about blacks. if i was on the show when he made one of those
> comments, i would call him on it. but on balance, it doesn't
> seem worth a
> boycott, or suddenly going on the attack over something he might have
> broadcast weeks earlier. he makes fun of
> everyone--southerners, italians
> etc. it is a politically incorrect comedy show (often quite funny),
> intermittently informative (you obviously listen), and
> getting too bent out
> of shape doesn't seem to me to be worth the time. thanks for
> writing...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Anti-Semitism
>
> It doesn't take a lot of guts to attack campus activists.
> Let's see you
> take Don Imus to task the next time you're on his show.
> Challenge his use
> of the epithet "penis-nose" for some Jew he doesn't like.
> While you're at
> it, you suck-up, ask him why all the black politicians he
> parodies sound
> like Amos n' Andy.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
> www.marxmail.org
>
>
