Alexander Cockburn RIP

[Madeleine Maudlin]

"Denialist"?

God that's pathetic.

What an awful, degenerate human Kathleen Geier must be.


On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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