David Corn: Counterrevolutionary?

Tim Cavanaugh | February 3, 2005

Trouble on the left: On his mailing list, Mark Crispin Miller, NYU's own Mr. Furious, has been busy denouncing this David Corn column, which asserts that President Bush did a pretty good job in his State of the Union speech. Since the author of The Bush Dyslexicon knows that it is theoretically impossible for the president to deliver a decent speech, Corn is clearly insane for making such a claim, depending as it does on bourgeois "empirical" evidence.

However, it turns out that Corn may be guilty of more than just inadvertently expressing imperialist sentiments or indulging in introspective thinking. As measured by his objectively chauvinist attacks on Gary Webb, International ANSWER, and Greg Palast (who we know is a great reporter because he wears a fedora), it appears Corn is an unreconstructed violator of socialist morality, a mole seeking to sow dissension among the laboring class, even a running dog for the forces of reactionary capitalism. We can only hope that, having identified the traitor within their midst, Miller and others inspired by the true revolutionary spirit can either re-educate him or have him disappeared before he can infect any more workers with the toxin of disbelief in the victory of socialism.