Alexander Cockburn RIP

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_07/alexander_cockburn_rip038739.php

I was saddened to hear today about the passing of left-wing
journalist/provocateur Alexander Cockburn, who
died<http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-jc-alexander-cockburn-has-died-rip-20120721,0,3038441.story>
of
cancer at the age of 71. Cockburn was a difficult, frequently exasperating
figure. First, some of the awful things: as
this<http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2012/07/21/rip-alexander-cockburn-leftist-global-warming-heretic>
right-wing
website gleefully notes, the man ended his days as a climate change
denialist. Throughout his career, he took great delight in viciously
attacking Democratic politicians, which is something that I’m not against
in principle, but it never made any kind of sense to me that the very
people he went after most ferociously were often stalwarts of the most
leftward precincts of the Democratic party, such as his perennial punching
bag, Bernie Sanders, who is after all probably the closest thing we have to
a genuine fire-breathing social democrat in the U.S. Congress.
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