Jun 20
Alexander Cockburn’s Russert Smear
he didn’t care for uppity blacks.
Why is guy trashing a man just barely dead who was we respected by his trade in the US? Yes, you guessed it because the man was even handed and didn’t suffer from anti-war and Bush/Cheney bias. The piece is pretty vile. He even had a go at Russert for being over-weight.
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[...] Alexander Cockburn’s Russert Smear he didn’t care for uppity blacks. Why is guy trashing a man just barely dead who was we respected by his trade in the US? Yes, you guessed it because the man was even handed and didn’t suffer from anti-war and Bush/Cheney bias. … [...]
To fully appreciate the depraved imbecility of Alexander Cockburn, it is necessary to understand that in the 1980s, he was, under American law, a paid communist agent. A running joke among the Washington press corps had him appearing at midnight at the Soviet embassy whispering “It’s Alexander Cockburn … let me in!”
His much better younger brother Andrew wrote a pretty good, somewhat flawed but very eye-opening and unusually prescient (yeah, I agreed with him at the time based on first and second hand observations) 1983 book called “The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine” which debunked the Pentagon’s inflated threat estimates of the “hordes of unfortunates” as Andrew called them at the time. Sometimes the left is right. But Alexander Cockburn is trash.