Lapham On Impeachment Coming Up On C-SPAN

[cali]

I'm a huge Lapham fan. I can't think of anyone who presents a more convincing and elegant argument than Lapham. He's a beautiful speaker as well as a beautiful writer. I can't wait to see him handle the wingnut calls.

[napi21]

1. I can't believe he COUNTED the # of false statements * made!

He just said they made 237 false statements!

[napi21]

2. I can't wait to hear the Pub calls on this one! n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. that last one...

"you can't go on TV and say the President lied!"

:eyes:

[CottonBear]

16. Oh yes you can and Mr. Lapham did!

I imagine that many RW heads exploded while listening to Lapham this morning. They're simply not prepared to hear the truth.

[cali]

3. I know! Wasn't that amazing?

237 false statements made by members of the admin. I love factoids like that. You can clearly see where the Harper's Index came from.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. "watch what you say" and "you're just getting your facts from

books" says one rw caller.

[cali]

6. LOL

These wingnut callers are so weak.

[cali]

7. "It's a war on an abstract noun"

that's how Lapham describes the war on terror, and that kind of turn of phrase is why I admire him so much.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. Lapham satirical quote and bio:

stolen from trof who posted this in the GDP thread...

“Because God had chosen America as the construction site of the earthly Paradise, America’s cause was always just and nothing was ever America’s fault… corrupt foreigners commit crimes against humanity, Americans cleanse the world of its impurities.”

Born in San Francisco into a family distinguished by service and achievement, Lewis Lapham was educated at Hotchkiss School, Yale and Cambridge Universities. He was marked early for a career in journalism, working first for the San Francisco Examiner and, by age 25, covering the United Nations for the International Herald Tribune.

He joined the staff of Harper’s Magazine in 1975 and has been its editor since 1983. In an interview, Lapham describes Harper’s, which was founded in 1850, “as a journal for people who still read, who like to read, and who look upon reading as a pleasure, not as an acquisition of data.” The magazine demands “imagination on each side of the page: the courage of the writer to try to tell the truth as he or she has seen it—or heard it, or felt it, or guessed at it—and the will of the reader to take seriously, to try to grasp imaginatively, what is being said." Lapham’s own monthly column, “Notebook,” won the National Magazine Award (1995) for expressing an “exhilarating point of view in an age of conformity.”

After the publication of his first collection of essays, Fortune’s Child, critics compared him with H.L. Mencken and Montaigne. A master of ironic wit, he is also likened to Mark Twain. Lapham’s books include Money and Class in America (1988), Imperial Masquerade (1990), The Wish for Kings (1993), Hotel America…(1995), Waiting for the Barbarians (1997) and Theater of War (2002). Lapham’s December 2002 essay, “The Road to Babylon: Searching for Targets in Iraq,” was posted on the Harper’s website the following spring. He has also been the host of a documentary series for television, America’s Century, as well as host and executive editor of the series, Bookmark (1989-91).

When he appeared on television with Bill Moyers, his host said of him: “Lewis Lapham speaks the truth to power and wealth in each issue of America’s oldest political journal…In the essays he writes and the articles he publishes, he opens the veins on issues like class, power, politics.”
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Lewis_Lapham.html

[cali]

12. Thanks for posting that Viva.

He really is a rare talent; sharply perceptive and often prescient.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Weekly Standard guy says Saddam was backing terrorists

in the Philippines?! WTF

[CottonBear]

13. The RW callers are going to love this Stephen Hayes guy.

LOL! A caller from TN just told the Weekly Standard Guy that he's full of crap! :rofl: Now WS guy is all pissy about the caller not "giving specifics."

Lewis Lapham simply didn't respond to crazy RW callers.

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. It's the make-it-true-by-repetition strategery

One set of papers says yes, another says no. Which one...

Frankly, I always thought the 'Saddam was supporting suicide bombers' silly. How do you "support" a dead person? The majority of families of the bombers didn't know what they were going to do, and the bombers certainly weren't signing up with a Saddam Bonus in mind.

But, hey! If that makes them feel better. :eyes:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. The Weekly Standard is the neocon's house organ. Hayes planted

stories given to him by Doug Feith in the run-up to the war, and after. He is the person who propagated he story that the WMDs were sent to Syria.

[cali]

19. Yep. Second verse same as the first

"terra, terra, terraahh" (to the tune of "money, money, money".

[mandyky]

9. I hope Cspan has more of these on

He did great. There are a few others that CSpan should have on, too.

[cantstandbush]

11. When will it be re-aired? Missed it. n/t

[CottonBear]

14. WJ is usually rerun later in the day. Check the CSPAN website schedule.

Did you just hear Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard accuse Lewis Lapham of promoting "revisionist history"?

Hah! Another caller calling bullshit on Hayes and Kristol and mentioning PNAC.

Who the hell has ever heard of a connection between Palestininas, Hussein and the Phillipines? :eyes:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. You can watch it on the CSPAN site...

it will be posted to this page a few minutes after the show is over...
http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=WJE&ShowVidNum=9&Rot_Cat_CD=WJ&Rot_HT=206&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=100&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

They'll replay it sometime today, but it's not on the schedule yet.
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/schedule.csp


:)
well worth watching (again)

[WiseButAngrySara]

20. I share your opinion of Lapham. Thanks for the Heads-Up on this...I

missed it, but will view it later, thanks to you!