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| It Wasn't Churchill |
| 2007-03-13 |
| John Podhoretz, National Review This weekend, a furor erupted when a British academic charged that Winston Churchill had written an anti-Semitic article in 1937 that was very nearly published in 1940 until Churchill pulled it. Turns out that Churchill didn't write it but that a man named Adam Marshall Diston, who occasionally ghosted articles for Churchill, did — and that when Churchill discovered its contents, he insisted it be killed. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 re: the Great Winston Churchill We should remind each other of at least three examples to watch for anytime we see an accusation. 1) Richard Jewell 2) Character assassination commited with a purpose by the left, MSM and the Clintonista attack machine. 3) Holding Historical figures to standards and values of another epoch. which I grant is not simple and fraught with sink traps but... Holding Jefferson to measure up to and account for our 21th century values on slavery for instance. Civilization, all it's history, laws and social values accumulate, we all stand on the shoulders of our forefathers and the evolving rules laid down before. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-13 19:27 |
| #5 I retract my snarky statements I added inline to the Churchill story yesterday, at least inasmuch as they would have applied to Sir Winston. I am not holding the actual author in very high regard, however. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-03-13 13:25 |
| #4 Quotes from Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. |
| Posted by: SwissTex 2007-03-13 13:10 |
| #3 Common Jackal. You don't really think Chief Chickenshit could write a grammatical sentence in English. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-13 11:15 |
| #2 I'm glad to hear it. Really glad, since I've long admired that man. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-13 11:12 |
| #1 But Ward Churchill... |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-03-13 08:21 |