Sipping Some Tea
I’m heading to Arizona tonight where I will spend the week reporting on the McCain-Hayworth primary. It should be illegal to get paid to cover this sort of thing. Hayworth just got himself into a jam by comparing gay marriage to having sex with a horse. And the moderate in the race, John McCain, is bringing in no one other than Sarah Palin to stump for him.
Seems like the most rational folks in this row are the Tea Partiers — with whom I’ll be spending some time. So far most have them have refused to endorse either guy.
Will post next from Phoenix.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Good news for John McCain !
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/world/middleeast/17sadr.html?hp
March 16th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
and dont forget Naomi Klein who praised the Sadr militia for its anti-imperialist pro-resistance stand! Good news for al.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
John McCain, is bringing in no one other than Sarah Palin to stump for him.
Well, try not to throw any tomatoes Marc.
And be sure to let us know how much $$$ you made at Morongo on the way back.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
I wont be throwing any tomatoes. I love attending these sort of thingies and I am always extremely polite. I flew here so no Morongo. There is Salt River and Wild Pass however.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
“and dont forget Naomi Klein who praised the Sadr militia for its anti-imperialist pro-resistance stand! Good news for al.”
Yikes, I would have hoped that Marc by now would have abandoned this slur which originated in Eustonian circles and that he helped, sadly, to propogate. Naomi responded conclusively and devastastingly here. The column is very much worth reading
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041018/klein
March 17th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Sorry, Ahmed. I never read the ‘Eustonian” take on her. I wrote my own critique of what she said at that time and I didnt need anyone to interpret it for me. It was very clear what she said originally and her clarifications were after the fact.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:27 am
By the way.. Bring Najaf to New York is the most boneheaded political slogan since the Weathermen came up with “Serve The People, Shit.” You can read her column anyway you please.. in the end it is a clear plea for “conditional support” Sadr as lefties like to say.
Here’s what I wrote at the time and I don’t take back one word:
http://marccooper.typepad.com/marccooper/2004/08/najaf_to_new_yo.html
March 17th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Marc is dispatched to blend in with the USA’s equivalent to the Mahdi Army, trying to impose religious fundamentalism but this time opposing a different President of American Imperialism.
Of course they will say they are trying to impose the Constitution on a trend toward American Socialism.
Ain’t that America.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Marc, I’m headed to Phoenix next week to catch some Spring Training games at Camelback, and would welcome any suggestions on good Mexican restaurants. The couple I’ve heard of that sound interesting are Nino’s, and the Flatbread House.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
This is by now old news but readers can contrast Marc with Naomi quite easily by looking at her piece compared to Marc’s characterization.
Cooper “and dont forget Naomi Klein who praised the Sadr militia for its anti-imperialist pro-resistance stand!”
Klein “It was an instructive lesson about who Sadr actually is: not an anti-imperialist liberator, as some on the far left have cast him, but someone who wants the foreigners out so he can shackle and control large portions of Iraq’s population himself. But neither is Sadr the one-dimensional villain painted by so many in the media, a portrayal that has allowed many liberals to stay silent as he is barred from participating in elections and to look the other way while US forces nightly firebomb the civilian population of Sadr City, where the fighting recently knocked out electricity in the midst of a Hepatitis E outbreak.
The situation requires a more principled position. For instance, Muqtada al-Sadr’s calls for press freedom may not include the freedom of women journalists to cover him. Yet he still deserves to have his right to publish a political newspaper–not because he believes in freedom but because we supposedly do. Similarly, Sadr’s calls for fair elections and an end to occupation demand our unequivocal support–not because we are blind to the threat he would pose if he were actually elected but because believing in self-determination means admitting that the outcome of democracy is not ours to control. “
March 17th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I will make sure that Mr.Sadr becomes aware of your unqualified support for his rights. I’m sure he appreciates it.
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