Posted on 01/05/2014 4:33:04 PM PST by driftdiver
I remember Elmer Keith and Charles Askins both bitching about eastern dandies who would edit their articles and change things from facts to fiction. Dick Metcalf seems like he could play the part of an eastern dandy editor. Elmer lived down the road and I have met many people who knew him.
‘Bottom line is simple ... the bill of rights were written to protect the people from the Federal government, not the government from the people and not from people from each other.’
A very fine summation of Colonel Geo. Mason’s views. This knowledge is part of what the progressives are determined to send down the Memory Hole.
He’s a pariah. So who cares what he has to say.
*snort!* I am reminded of when I was forced to attend a court-ordered 'mediation' wherein the 'mediator' stated that the difference between two views was always really some "compromise" between the two.
My responce was something along the lines of: "So I tell the complete truth, and she tell nothing but lies, then nonetheless automatically half of truth is ignored but half of lies is legitimized? THAT is a COMPROMISE?"
What about Masaad Ayoob? (sp?)
“No offense AT ALL. This happened two months ago, and only today the media are picking up on it. I am pretty sure that FoxNews wasn’t the first to report it today, so it seems they are following others in the media ... big surprise, huh?”
The New York Times ran a front page story sympathetic to Metcalf on Sunday. That’s what made it news again.
I would not put Ayoob in the same class as the great writers of the past. He is apparently a competitive shooter and seems to make testifying in court one of his main claims to fame but he is no writer and he always struck me as just a little bit of a low life.
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