[Leica] The Economist (WAS: the prime minister of where?)

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

Hey Nat,

Ya gotta remember that Marc is to the right of Attila the Hun.  He 
probably thinks that the  Jonhn Birch Society
are a bunch of flaming liberals/

To him, The Economist is a twin to the Daily Worker.  ( How many of you 
know what the Daily Worker was)

Jerry

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Hey Marc,
>
> Do you get some special Virginia edition of The Economist or 
> something? I subscribe too, have been a subscriber since my college 
> days in the 1980s. I read it despite its consistent right-wing tilt, 
> and I have even forgiven them for endorsing GWB in 2000--because of 
> the consistently high editorial quality.
>
> But I would like to see the version you read, it must be very 
> different from mine. Are you sure you are not confusing it with Mother 
> Jones or something?
And Marc, since you don't run this list, we can discuss politics all we 
want,. until the LUG administrator stops us.

Jerry

>
> Nathan
>
> Marc James Small wrote:
>>
>> Let us let the politics alone.  Yes, a bunch of us know the names of 
>> the Prime Ministers of the various shards of the British Empre -- for 
>> heavens' sakes, I do subscribe to THE ECONOMIST, a dangerously 
>> left-wing journal in my estimation but I read it for the same reason 
>> I read the WASHINGTON POST:  a "dangerous right-winger" is, in 
>> reality, a mushy moderate, and a "strong voice for liberty" is Robert 
>> Mugabe or Fidel Castro or the like.  I understand their cant and I 
>> can interpret and I do appreciate their book reviews and death notice. 
>