I've gotcher Gabriel Ice right here:

[Fiona Shnapple]

Muckraking of this sort does damage, not good. It keeps people ignorant and
feeds them the same old mush. It is lazy and stuffed bloated pronouncements
about some evil thing called Wall Street. Jesus. Where do these people
live? On the Moon? Occupy a space between your ears. Pay attention to the
people.

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I am so pleased that Pynchon, though sympathetic to those who now call
> themselves Left of the NY Times (how Left is that? Ptnchon asks in BE),
> satirizes them in BE. While the muckraking is important, and we can't
> expect the NY Times, the Voice, Mother Jones, to do it without, at the same
> time, turning off anyone with half a brain---who see how the yellow fog
> journalism, frecked with red, now brownish blood, drips down the drain into
> the waste counterpunching its shadow boxing partners.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Robin Landseadel <
> robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> "When Republicans make their pilgrimages to Wall Street for money to help
>> take back the Senate next year, there may be no hotter ticket than a party
>> at Paul Singer's. The 69-year-old hedge fund billionaire's co-op apartment
>> at the Beresford, a hulking Italian Renaissance building on Central Park
>> West whose celebrity residents have included Jerry Seinfeld, Glenn Close,
>> and Helen Gurley Brown, can draw scads of high-finance players. The haul
>> for a dinner event has been known to run to $1.4 million, and Singer
>> himself has no trouble writing a $1 million check to a super-PAC. He's been
>> described as a "fundraising terrorist" for his persistence in twisting
>> arms, a skill that has helped drive a major strategic shift among Big
>> Finance donors, who favored Obama in 2008 but now overwhelmingly back the
>> GOP."
>>
>> http://www.motherjones.com/**politics/2013/07/paul-singer-**
>> elliott-republican-fundraiser<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/paul-singer-elliott-republican-fundraiser>
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?**list=pynchon-l<http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l>
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