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Entry: Lies, Ignorance and "Useful Idiots"... Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/lies_ignorance_and_useful_idiots#13306 Post contents: "Remember, this is an English newspaper, and I don’t get out much. They talk and think differently over there on John Bull’s first island." Heh. From Lukacs' "Thread of Years", the chapter titled "1962", about an English journalist visiting New York: "He also recounts to his wife two phrases (or rather, definitions) he learned in New York: John Kennedy is surrounded by an Irish mafia, and literary life in New York is ruled by a Jewish mafia (the latter told to him late one night in a Third Avenue bar by an Irish writer who kept drinking nothing but pints of Irish lager, one after another.)" Sent at: 2008 11 23