Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:36:27 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Cockburn


Hear Cockburn talking about how lefties should work with militias - this 
in front of a classic Ann Arbor left crowd.  His eyes were shining and 
his mouth on the verge of laughter at every point.  Fun to hear the 
previously-friendly audience stop breathing, too.



Bryan Alexander					Department of English
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, rakesh bhandari wrote:

> >    I think you are a bit heavy handed. Most of what you say is probably
> >true--but not really relevant to Cockburn, who is probably just
> >pulling the toes of the large mushy audience of liberals who sub*scribe
> >to the Nation.
> 
>  It is obvious that Cockburn is teasing his readership, just trying to be a
> bad boy to the eco-pacifist-CISPES types who must read his every word.    I
> just felt like harassing him--I don't know why.    I have a friend who
> listens in to the this line, just to have Louis and Ralph crack her up. 
> She doesn't find me funny, she tells me that it takes years of exchange
> with very sharp-witted people to be that funny.  I've been on this line for
> over a year now and I am just going to throw in the towel.  
> 
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