I recommend this book:

"Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left"; By Susan Braudy; Knopf, 460 pp. illustrated; $27.95.

A more contemptible bunch of shitheels you have never encountered. See Elvid's post above. Read that book if you want to understand the sixties New Left.

Kathy Boudin recently got out of Bedford Hills. The NYT ran an astoundingly laudatory article on the (surviving) terrorist-bombing Weathermen... ON 9/11/01.

This from Front Page:

Quote:
Perhaps al-Qaeda should have bombed the New York Times. On 9/11 -- on the day of the most heinous terrorist attack on any nation, any where, any time, the "paper of record" profiled and celebrated anti-American terrorists Bill Ayers and his infamous spouse Bernardine Dohrn who had bombed the Pentagon in the 1970s and were still "proud of it." On the front page of today's New York Times, Howell Raines & Co. celebrate the stepson of this wretched couple, Chesa Boudin, whose natural parents -- former members of the May 19 Communist Movement -- are serving life sentences for their role in the cold-blooded murder of two policemen and a security guard during a robbery to finance a war against "Amerikkka." There is no family more symbolic of America's internal enemy -- a radical left that hates its own country and is eager to destroy it.

There is also probably no story more indicative of the debasement of the institutions, honors and traditions which once constituted the foundation of our national life. Chesa Boudin has overcome handicaps of dyslexia and epilepsy to reach his present heights, a Yale education and what were once two of the most prestigious awards a college student could attain. I say once, because one has to wonder what the value of a Yale education is anymore or an honor like the Rhodes scholarship. Named after the famed British statesman to be awarded to scholars who reflected his values, it has been given to a young man who repudiates everything that Rhodes stood for. When you ask how this is possible, the answer tells you just how bad the state of our affairs has become.

Dennis Hutchinson is a law professor at the University of Chicago -- one of the nation's two or three most prestigious law schools. He is a former Rhodes Scholar himself and the chair of the Midwest selection committee that honored Chesa Boudin. Hutchinson had this to say about the recipient: "This is a guy who talks not only with passion but with mature, thoughtful information about the things he cares about. Those are the sorts of qualities that separate good resumes from the people who are willing to fight the world's fight, as the [Rhodes] will says."

Here is how Chesa Boudin characterizes that fight: "We have a different name for the war [America is] fighting now -- now [they] call it the war on terrorism, then they called it the war on communism. My parents were all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I'm dedicated to the same thing."




Of course, the NYT gets it wrong again. Nothing new there.