Berg's political pot-pourri

Posted by MG on July 16, 2004 at 19:05:43

Picking apart or listing the wide variety of contradictory positions Berg took over the years could be fun way to talk about the subject of politics.

--He was a Castro fan, and made socialism sound great.
--He praised Mao.
--But he called Martin L. King a communist and said that when he spoke his words were smooth as butter but war was in his heart.
--He said the same thing about Nelson Mandela.
--He didn’t sound very liberal when he slammed the ACLU and Amnesty International.
--Sometimes he sounded liberal, pro-environmental, anti-American and ranted about America's being the main worldwide industrial polluter.
--Other times he sounded like a red white and blue flag waving member of the John Birch Society.
--And on other occasions he went on like a member of a Nazi skinhead movement, especially when he got onto the subject of the Jews.

What more?