I suspect the editorial page gang are afraid that Murdoch will back Clinton (which I don't think is excluded at all). After all, the issue is who can best continue the Bush course at home and abroad? The Bushites candidate (the Law and Order and Love Boat ham actor Fred Thompson) is the most likely Republican nominee. Who else but Clinton -- or even The Clintons -- can pick up the fallen banner. Who else can block expanded medical care, further segregation (maybe in the name of multi-culturalism each in their own separate but as equal as is realistic schools? Above all, who else can continue the war in Iraq (maybe turn it into a war against the Shia who have failed so many federal tests, they really should be pushed out of high school)?
Above all, who else has a chance to carry the war to Iran and destroy those semicolonial countries who provoked their fate by trying, on their limited resources, to compete as equals with imperialism. (Mustn't have that, theorists of subimperialism and neoimperialism and too-close-to being-imperialism agree. Vewy destabilizing. REAL semicolonial countries go along with the program or have simon-pure socialist revolutions -- the only legitimate responses theorists of sub- or neo-imperialism are prepared to countenance.) But I am convinced that if HE tried to continue and escalate the Iraq war, or invade Iran, he would quickly disappear without a trace. lists -- many of whom know a thing or two and let it be known to others -- have good reason to fear. Maybe O'Grady will become Editor in Chief. Maybe after OGrady goes upstairs, they will give the Latin American bureau to that Miami Herald columnist who KNEW that Castro was dead as soon as he knew that Castro was said to be sick, and who is still pushing his classic work, "Castro's Final Hour", which was published in 1990. For it is always Castro's Final Hour, is it not? And are we not all mortal? This is the kind of news coverage Murdoch thinks is right on top of things. Fred Feldman -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] quote du jour Jim Devine wrote: > > "I would complain about him taking over the Wall Street Journal, but > its editorial line is already so wacky that Mr. Murdoch's may actually > be an improvement." -- Juan Cole. That's true -- but I think irrelevant because it is the news pages of the WSJ that count, not the wacky opinion pages. Those are merely material for the student of social pathology. Carrol
