Dear '60s editor,
I've just finished, "The Devil and Mr. Hicks "How one of L.A.'s leading
lefties joined forces with David Horowitz and
Southern California's conservative elite" by Marc Cooper May 24 - 30, 2002
posted on the '60s list.
It needs to be put into some kind of perspective. One assumes, from years
past, that Marc Cooper of KPFK and the Nation might be able to deliver some
kind of critique from a non-doctrinaire left. But Cooper, particularly in
his odious efforts to support ceding control of the Pacifica network to
corporatism, has become a bit of a reflection of Horowitz and Hicks himself.
Cooper's personal attacks are more restrained perhaps than the slathering ad
hominem attacks on ancient lefties of Horowitz, but they are base all the
same. For instance, I just read the following statement, printed in an LA
Weekly "rebuttal" to a critique of Cooper by Ed Herman: "Too bad that
Herman, who once had something to say, has become a mumbling sectarian
reduced to publishing on z-net..." Checking Amazon, it appears that Herman
publishes a book about every two years, besides his many commentaries on
Z-Net and other publications. But Cooper seizes the opportunity to not only
trash Herman, but to throw a spear at Z-Net, which critized Cooper's
execrable behavior toward KPFK/Pacifica listeners who valued democracy at
their station.
Finally, the Cooper piece contains an almost grudging admiration of Horowitz
who has to be one of the most successful and loathesome harlots in American
politics. I happened to look up a story about a murder in Wichita today,
and was not surprised to see Horowitz's Frontpage comments about it
mirroring those of four other websites a search turned up, all neo-Nazi
organs. "By their friends..."
Frank Smith
Kansas
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