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2010-01-28 -Obits-

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Turd...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-01-28 00:10|| 2010-01-28 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 you are more generous than I. Turds have a use on occasion.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-01-28 00:32|| 2010-01-28 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Equal parts Mao, Stalin, and Goebbels, this creature was one of the creators of the academic Hate America cult. Good riddance.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-28 00:44|| 2010-01-28 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 the real tragedy is not his passing, but that it is over 60 years too late.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-01-28 00:55|| 2010-01-28 00:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The Boston Globe obit that Fred linked was basically a tongue-bath from start to finish for this communist a$$hat. Amazingly, the NYT's version was considerably more balanced. Here's an excerpt:

"Even liberal historians were uneasy with Professor Zinn, who taught for many years at Boston University. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. once said: 'I know he regards me as a dangerous reactionary. And I dont take him very seriously. Hes a polemicist, not a historian.'...In a 1998 interview with The Associated Press, Professor Zinn acknowledged that he was not trying to write an objective history, or a complete one."

Good riddance, dirtbag, and I feel sorry for the worms. Now if only Chomsky will join you...

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-01-28 00:56|| 2010-01-28 00:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Now, if Chomsky and Ramsey Clark will kick the bucket, the not-so-grim reaper will have given us a triple play.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-01-28 01:07|| 2010-01-28 01:07|| Front Page Top

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-01-28 01:23|| 2010-01-28 01:23|| Front Page Top

#8 If there was a serious community of historians around, they would celebrate by subjecting Zinn's work to the bonfire of criticism and moral odium it deserves. But my expectations are WAY too high- I do not think such a community exists.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-01-28 06:13|| 2010-01-28 06:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Front Page Magazine review of Howard Zinn:

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=17914

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-28 06:26|| 2010-01-28 06:26|| Front Page Top

#10 There is an upside to this. Because of Bambi's SOTU blather, Zinn will be pushed off center stage, and there will be far fewer Chris Matthews type syrupy epitaphs to him.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-28 06:29|| 2010-01-28 06:29|| Front Page Top

#11 As I ponder Barry's angry lecture, I'm really wondering if watching 'Chris Matthews type syrupy epitaphs' would have been a better expenditure of time. The lad is in some serious denial and those talking head comments about him "pivoting".... not a chance.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-28 06:41|| 2010-01-28 06:41|| Front Page Top

#12 International and National Socialism - 100 million dead in the 20th Century and still counting. Mr. Zinn's real world alternative.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-28 18:58|| 2010-01-28 18:58|| Front Page Top

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