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February 23, 2006
More Metro Nonsense
Of course, he's got his usual to-the-right-of-Michael-Savage rantings:
The "mess" in New Orleans is the fault of "enviro-nazis."But in this issue, there's more!"The AIDS epidemic everyone is so worked up about in Africa" may not be "real," but instead evidence that "[s]cience is too often the political tool for the advancement of bogus causes."
"The Episcopal Church of America, now in its final days as a credible religious institution," makes Reeves's "Notes from La La Land" for "considering consecrating former US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall a saint."
The issue includes a story (scroll down) on the background of the Communist Workers Party, five of whose members were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina in November of 1979. At two criminal trials, all-white juries acquitted the gunmen.
In introducing the story, Reeves says this of the criminal trials: they "found that the CWP purposefully set up the confrontation as a group suicide in order to martyr themselves to the cause of world socialism."
A complete fabrication. No such thing was "found."
Posted by Eric at February 23, 2006 5:22 PM
Comments
ugh. eric, damn you. i read through the entire rant about the weathermen (i must admit i share reeves' dislike of ayers & dohrn, although for reasons quite distinct from reeves') before scrolling down to the AIDS in africa bit.
you really should post the paragraph in its entirety unless you think there's a copyright issue -- the total lack of a coherent argument is beautiful in its simplicity. i may have to send it to my mother, who is as i type in mozambique working on that "bogus cause."
Posted by: jenny at February 24, 2006 8:10 AM
Bernie owes The Weekly Standard some money, I think, for ripping off the magazine's article of a month and a half ago about environmentalists and dams. The other thing he and his compadre at The Standard ought to get straight is the difference between levees, floodgates, and dams. I think that's all that needs to be said about Bernie's astonishing "new" insight, which would strike most people down here in New Orleans (even his ideological fellow travelers) as preposterous.
Where yat,
d
Posted by: Duncan Murrell at March 1, 2006 8:54 PM