"Hanoi Jane" Meg? Really? "Hanoi Jane"

[Perky]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43555.html

In an e-mail sent Wednesday, the state party points out an Oct. 13, 1981, Los Angeles Times story about Brown’s defense of a spate of controversial 1979 appointments he made in part to generate left-wing support for his nascent primary challenge to then-President Jimmy Carter.

This year, Brown, a Democrat, is running for his old job as governor against former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a Republican. Brown held the governorship from 1975 until 1983—and the GOP’s reminder, 29 years to the day after the clip appeared in print, is part of an ongoing campaign to paint Brown as a retread with decades of irredeemable baggage.

More than three decades ago, in 1979, Brown named Fonda to the California Arts Council but the state Senate rejected her appointment. “By all standards by which I was raised, Fonda was guilty of having committed treason,” one state senator said at the time, according to a September 1979 account of the flap in TIME Magazine.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43555.html#ixzz12HdU7bjn

[maxsolomon]

1. they'll keep putting that dog out on the trail until it's proved it won't hunt

if the iraq war showed us anything, it's that america still can't take an honest look at its own militarism. though the public SEEMS tired of the iraq war now, a certain percentage of reactionaries rah-rahs never will.

[maxsolomon]

2. dupe