Regarding the American Enterprise Institute in general, and Goldberg andBuckley in the specific, I've had enough personal experience with paid propagandists to pay any more attention to their belchings than I would, say, Pravda during Stalin's heyday. I've also had enough experience in both show business
and politics to recognise a front man for (not so) hidden interests when I see one, and when I see Don Rumsfeld coming out of his musty gate proclaiming the need for an unworkable, unnecessary, and massively expensive program such as the SDI "Ballistic Missile Defense Umbrella" in an age of suitcase nukes and biowarfare I see hundreds of billions of tax dollars disappearing down a rabbithole. When I see
a bought and sold Christian Right advocate in the shade of John Ashcroft given a position of real power
(as opposed to the Vice Presidency) I see a slap in the face to free thinkers the world over. To you, Richard, I'd say don't gloat too soon, as we're not dead yet. Even if Ashcroft is confirmed it'll be hard won, and a lot of precious political favours will have to be burned to get him in that office. Your party has placed a straw man at the front desk, and "canny aides" aside, he will have ample opportunity to embarrass all who've supported him, both at home and abroad. We're an international joke now, which we werent six months ago.
I haven't heard the Nonesuch recording of Music For Eighteen Musicians, but I bet it's grand. The ECM version does me right, though. It's so.... warmly frozen.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
AEI, Nonesuch
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Regarding the American Enterprise Institute in general, and Goldberg andBuckley in the specific, I've had enough personal experience with paid propagandists to pay any more attention to their belchings than I would, say, Pravda during Stalin's heyday. I've also had enough experience in both show business
and politics to recognise a front man for (not so) hidden interests when I see one, and when I see Don Rumsfeld coming out of his musty gate proclaiming the need for an unworkable, unnecessary, and massively expensive program such as the SDI "Ballistic Missile Defense Umbrella" in an age of suitcase nukes and biowarfare I see hundreds of billions of tax dollars disappearing down a rabbithole. When I see
a bought and sold Christian Right advocate in the shade of John Ashcroft given a position of real power
(as opposed to the Vice Presidency) I see a slap in the face to free thinkers the world over. To you, Richard, I'd say don't gloat too soon, as we're not dead yet. Even if Ashcroft is confirmed it'll be hard won, and a lot of precious political favours will have to be burned to get him in that office. Your party has placed a straw man at the front desk, and "canny aides" aside, he will have ample opportunity to embarrass all who've supported him, both at home and abroad. We're an international joke now, which we werent six months ago.
I haven't heard the Nonesuch recording of Music For Eighteen Musicians, but I bet it's grand. The ECM version does me right, though. It's so.... warmly frozen.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
and politics to recognise a front man for (not so) hidden interests when I see one, and when I see Don Rumsfeld coming out of his musty gate proclaiming the need for an unworkable, unnecessary, and massively expensive program such as the SDI "Ballistic Missile Defense Umbrella" in an age of suitcase nukes and biowarfare I see hundreds of billions of tax dollars disappearing down a rabbithole. When I see
a bought and sold Christian Right advocate in the shade of John Ashcroft given a position of real power
(as opposed to the Vice Presidency) I see a slap in the face to free thinkers the world over. To you, Richard, I'd say don't gloat too soon, as we're not dead yet. Even if Ashcroft is confirmed it'll be hard won, and a lot of precious political favours will have to be burned to get him in that office. Your party has placed a straw man at the front desk, and "canny aides" aside, he will have ample opportunity to embarrass all who've supported him, both at home and abroad. We're an international joke now, which we werent six months ago.
I haven't heard the Nonesuch recording of Music For Eighteen Musicians, but I bet it's grand. The ECM version does me right, though. It's so.... warmly frozen.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
