[Marxism] Reasons to avoid Alexander Cockburn, politically and personally

[Fred Feldman]

http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn08302008.html

Alexander Cockburn wrote:

"Who would not wish to take off Sarah's spectacles and liberate those rich,
heaped-up tresses? It's that librarian look so reminiscent of  Laura Bush in
happier days, back among the stacks in the Public Library in Midland which I
made [SIC] visited in 2001, mostly to view the crossroads where 17-year
Laura broadsided her boyfriend in that so-tragic "accident". (The  police
report says that Laura ran a stop sign in her Chevy and struck the Corvair
of 17-year old Michael Douglas. He was thrown from the car and broke his
neck. Some accounts have claimed Michael and Laura had been dating. Laura
was with a 17-year old girl friend at the time. It was a clear night, with
unobstructed views,  shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963. )"

In my original comment, I focused on Cockburn's frankly bizarre sexualizing
about Sarah Palin, but failed to take note of the continuation of his
bizarre charge, here by hints but more directly previously. that Laura Bush
intentionally caused the death or at least the injury of her youthful Texas
heartthrob, driven by hormonal violence. I assume from this that the Secret
Service's main task would be to keep an enraged, jealous and homicidal Laura
Bush from depriving us of George. The facts available recommend giving up
such reformist illusions.

Let me point out that there is qualitatively less evidence, to put it mildly
(there is actually none), to support this claim than there is for global
warming. Yet Cockburn has no hesitation to treat the alleged Laura murder as
proven, while declaring global warming a big lie of big business. 

Of course, Laura Bush is the subject of another Cockburn crush.

My advice to women who find themselves in this situation: RUN!