Yes, I had the same impression of the interview. His mind is working so
quickly that you have to try to sort of fill in the blanks while you're
listening to him in order to understand what he's saying. In that interview,
though, he did have a cogent response to the article that Sylvie posted.
Well, sort of cogent, if you could keep up with him.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Reminder about book
Focused is certainly the key to listening to Seymour Hersh. In his recent
interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, he was so disjointed, and
jumped from subject to some incidental point, that I had to sit up in bed.
I listen to the program at 5:00 A.M. as I'm waking up. Sometimes I turn on
the radio, start listening and wake up again, half way through the next
program.
I get the feeling that Seymour Hersh's brain is processing dozens of ideas
and issues all at one time, and he is rushing to get them out.
He certainly writes more clearly than he speaks.
That's not a criticism. I really appreciate his contributions.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/25/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because Seymour Hersh was interviewed on Democracy Now today, I just
wanted to remind anyone who might be interested, that his new book,
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden is on Bookshare. It covers the true
facts about the murder of Bin Laden, as well as all of the information
about the 2013 Sarin attack in Syria. I haven't quite finished it yet
so I'm not sure if it covers other issues. However, it is a short
book. I'd read two of the articles on line, but there's more detail in
the book. During the Democracy Now interview, Hersh also pointed out
that during Jeffrey Goldberg's recent interview with Obama in the
Atlantic, (and I did read that interview and remembered the
reference), Obama said that he'd been told by one of our generals that
the conclusion that the Syrian government was responsible for the
sarin attack was not a slam dunk. I was really eager to read this
book. But be aware that Hersh's writing is very dense, filled with
consequential facts and unless one is completely and constantly
focused on the text, it's easy to miss important material.
Miriam
