Every time a new edition of Naming Names comes out, his introductions get worse and worse, ... The blacklist was unnecessary, and unwarranted, but what Navasky does is that he makes everyone who was blacklisted into major moral heroes just because they were blacklisted ... This is all a holdover from Navasky's roots in the old left. He defends and identifies with the communist left and the fellow-travelling left. It's the post-Soviet era, but the Nation continues to identify the world in terms of the United States being an evil force. So they will say 'we were against Saddam Hussein', but it's still the US that is the evil power.
Quotes about blacklist (6 Quotes)
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.
Agencies don't care. They put a label on you if you complain. They blacklist you, say you're hard to please.