On 4/18/06, RFaussette@aol.com <RFaussette@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/18/2006 4:02:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> rich.blinne@gmail.com writes:
>
> As this has gone waaaay off topic this will be my last post on this
> subject. In the past, I've complained about right-wing conspiracy theories.
> This is the left-wing version. It is so "out there" liberals such as
> Dershowitz have disavowed this. So, who are the friends of this? The PLO and
> the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are passing out copies. David Duke cites
> this as "vindication". Harvard removed their logo from it. Maybe
> left-wing critiques are not good enough. I'll give a right-wing one. Paul
> Johnson of Powerline blog's assessment of this work:
>
>
> > Mearsheimer and Walt are chaired professors, respectively, of political
> > science and international relations at two of America's most elite academic
> > institutions, yet their essay is shoddy almost beyond belief. Among the
> > authorities it relies on are Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein. If it were
> > a student term paper, it might be spared a failing grade in recognition of
> > the effort that went into it. Among other things, its tendentious, highly
> > selective use of evidence marks it as the work of zealots rather than
> > scholars.
> >
> > I could be wrong but isn't Paul Johnson the author of the Gifts of the
> Jews? Hardly a critic...
>
>
You are wrong.
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