[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Essential misreading

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Essential misreading
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1187902281.shtml


   In my earlier post on Andrew Anthony's essay, [1]"The day reality hit
   home", I failed to mention that Anthony gave a short critique of
   Seumas Milne's post 9/11 America-hating diatribe, [2]"They can't see
   why they are hated". Since Stalinists like Milne are a dime a dozen at
   the Guardian, he was hardly worth mentioning.

   It is worth noting that, after reading a few of Milne's rants, I
   imagined him as a old embittered Marxist, a puffy, shaggy-browed
   intersection between the aged Richard Burton, Lewis Black and Albert
   Finney.

   In my mind, the dissolute wheezing Milne spent angry, tobacco-stained
   days cursing America and angry beer-soaked nights reminiscing about
   the good old days sipping kvas at the Dacha with Walter Duranty and
   Uncle Joe. The barmaid would remind him every night about his liver
   and his high blood pressure, and she'd send him staggering home to a
   sleep filled with bedbugs and nightmares about Ike.

   Imagine my surprise when I followed the link to [3]his response to
   Anthony's criticism. - and his [4]picture*. If he's this bitter now,
   god help him when he gets older.

   * (I got the eyebrows right, though)

References

   1. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2151530,00.html
   2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,,551086,00.html
   3. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/seumas_milne/2007/08/essential_misreading.html
   4. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/site_imagery/seumas_milne_140x140.jpg