tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post1129655692513500487..comments2024-03-28T21:42:44.372-04:00Comments on the daily howler: ROSA PARKS AT 100: Sullivan buys the whole pile of piddle!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42334193688178075942013-02-16T15:12:29.067-05:002013-02-16T15:12:29.067-05:00Bob is right.
Many journos have debunked the Al ...Bob is right. <br /><br />Many journos have debunked the Al Gore invented the internet meme. Surely Howell Raines did so in a book at least a couple of hundred people read.<br /><br />Therefore, there is no need to debunk it again, even though countless numbers of people still believe the meme.<br /><br />The need never to debunk the myth again should be worth half a dozen blog posts.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17803231988989969133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68113731537560414892013-02-12T20:44:44.539-05:002013-02-12T20:44:44.539-05:00"Andrew Sullivan swallowed it whole!"
P..."Andrew Sullivan swallowed it whole!"<br /><br />Pun intended, Bob?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73882928544625895152013-02-10T18:48:04.004-05:002013-02-10T18:48:04.004-05:00In sympathy with the fatigue here -- really, peopl...In sympathy with the fatigue here -- really, people don't know this? -- but I think Ifill can and should be read more generously (though I am no Ifill fan).<br /><br />The question, who are the "we" here? Ifill does not identify her own own voice with that "we," from which she (obviously) immediately dissociates herself. Rather, that "we" is the larger populace, no matter how many historians and others have long debunked myths about Rosa Parks for (some of) "us," a populace that gains its impressions (at best) from nightly news and from who gets national holidays (with associated thumbnail sketches presented in schools). Malcolm X is not honored with a national holiday. MLK is. Most important, the notion that Black people have rhythm (though can't read music), can jump (because they have special "natural" physical abilities), and have never had a strong working- or middle-class (they all have always lived on welfare in inner cities, right? or lounged about in shacks on what were once Alabama plantations, right?): that mythology is still very much with "WE," I think. Not as much as it used to be, but still with "US."<br /><br />I think Ifill has a point to make and, from what's quoted here, makes it well. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89857426417463108852013-02-10T18:21:44.641-05:002013-02-10T18:21:44.641-05:00Important Correction: Gwen Ifill is utterly fatuou...Important Correction: Gwen Ifill is utterly fatuous. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44065792790626739212013-02-10T11:12:52.714-05:002013-02-10T11:12:52.714-05:00The answer to the question, who wants to believe t...The answer to the question, who wants to believe these things? is lots of people who know very little about the history of the civil rights movement, especially young people. Why pick on Ifill for setting the record straight?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-14493290094202962522013-02-09T18:38:28.970-05:002013-02-09T18:38:28.970-05:00And now Sullivan wants us to pay for his recycled ...And now Sullivan wants us to pay for his recycled drivel, too.<br /><br />Don't ever forget Sullivan was the one who printed Betsy McCaughey's lies about the Clinton healthcare plan in the New Republic, which helped tank the plan. He knew they were lies but ran it "as a provocation to debate." (See her Wiki page.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17637257756185357012013-02-09T18:19:13.794-05:002013-02-09T18:19:13.794-05:00Well, the answer to Bob's questions of "w...Well, the answer to Bob's questions of "who" and "why" and "who is we?" would require some mind reading. <br /><br /> First, we should note that a cliche corrected (with a dollop of self congrats) can often become a cliche itself. Look how sharp I am explaining that George Washington didn't say I cannot tell a lie re the cherry tree. Even if you already knew that. <br /><br /> Then, to speculate, passive resistance isn't "bad ass." They have never made a movie, i don't believe, of Dr. King getting hit with a brick and then getting up and marching on. We like the bad ass FBI men of "Mississippi Burning" a lot better. Gwen Ifill probably screwed a lot of people over on her trip to TV star, you think She has much respect for passive resistance? <br />She hangs with shock and awe hotties like Condi! <br /><br /> White liberals love there bad asses too, and one day Quentin will probably make a movie where Rosa Parks forces George Wallace to eat his own filth, and then cuts his head off. And then Roger Ebert will write a glowing review about how someone has finally told the truth about our sordid history. <br /> Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288008924419574934noreply@blogger.com