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Monday, January 09, 2006

Bosco Finally Outed: He Is a "Fellow Traveler," and Probably Worse

5:52 PM

Whether you hate me and what I stand for, like me, or don't give a damn one way or the other (obviously, the larger category), I am certain you will enjoy an article I link to below. But, first, a bit of explanation is in order.

If you make your living in the public eye, Google has an invaluable service called Google Alert, which will notify you via e-mail when something is written about you and published on the Internet. It is quite handy. Sometimes it is an absolute hoot, which is the case in this instance.

Without much comment from me beforehand, I am going to excerpt and then link to a wild-eyed Cold Warrior's wonderfully scathing critique of this reporter's writing and politics.

An American 'Fellow-Traveler' of Chinese Dictatorship

Lev Navrozov

From time to time, I read on-line the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's Pravda and from its Pravda-like propaganda. I often learn more than from studies published by Western scholars with strings of degrees.

Thus, the other day I saw in it an announcement: "Featured Articles," and one of these was entitled, "The Greatness of China," which I clicked.

It was authored not by a top member of the Chinese Communist Party, but by Joseph Bosco, introduced by the People's Daily as a "widely published American nonfiction book writer, novelist, poet, and veteran journalist."

As far as his income in China is concerned, the dictators of China pay Bosco as a professor of a Chinese university and probably for his articles in their People's Daily.

Please continue reading at NewsMax.com:

There are a few amazing aspects to this phenomenon, one of the most salient is that I had no idea that People's Daily was grabbing stuff off of my site, and perhaps elsewhere, and publishing it on theirs. I am certainly not offended, mind you, but a modest payment would be appreciated.

Also, I am not sure if I am prouder of this distinction or being named Italian-American of the Year, 1997 in Los Angeles; L.A. Weekly's award as Muckraker of the Year, 1996; or establishing new law that book authors are journalists and protected by Reporter's Shield Laws, 1994; directing David Sheffield's play "Cenna Cycle" as an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans, 1976; being a New York cab driver, on and off from 1969 to 1973; or losing only one football game in three years as an Ocean Springs Greyhound from 1963 to 1965...or being the son of Frank A. Bosco, who some 50 year's ago was attacked in much the same manner by McCarthyites for simply stating the reality that the world's most populous nation should be in the U.N., etc., ...

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3 Comments:

Considering that this is Newsmax, you should be very, very proud.

By richard, at 9:51 PM

Sorry for laughing, but NewsMax just made asses out of themselves again.

By Tom - Daai Tou Laam, at 6:02 PM

Dear Richard & Tom,

You folks had heard of NewsMax before? I guess my media savvy needs some serious updating.

Thanks to both of you for helping to make me chuckle all the more.

All the best,

Joseph

By Joseph, at 3:27 PM