Edith Bunker’s place

New York Post ^ | 6/4/13 | NY Post Editorial

[NJRighty]

Jean Stapleton, a born-and-bred New Yorker immortalized in pop culture as the iconic Edith Bunker, died Friday in her Manhattan home at the age of 90.

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Today’s Queens is arguably America’s most diverse county.

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But what of “All in the Family” creator Norman Lear? Well, according to the ZIP code listed on his political contributions, Lear lives in the Brentwood hills of Los Angeles — ZIP code 90049, to be exact. That neighborhood’s population? It’s 84 percent white, 1.4 percent black, 8.7 percent Asian, with the remainder “other” and multiracial. That almost looks like Archie Bunker’s dream spot.

[tanknetter]

That's because he got the "Bush-hitler" treatment by the Democrat party that wanted to take his place. He was used as a whipping boy for all the evils since the Fall of Rome by all four terms of the commie-infested FDR cabal.

Sound familiar?

Indeed it does.

When people bring up Hoover (ok, I run with a pretty historically-aware crowd, a lot of whom are unrepentant New Dealers) I like to mention that he was so incompetent that FDR actually appointed him to position(s) of real power and authority (not just token jobs) regarding war production during WWII.

OTOH, FDR's treatment of Charles Lindbergh was pretty much despicable. Just tonight I was in the local B&N and a new book titled "Those Angry Days" about the pre-war conflict between the FDR cabal and the America Firsters.

I'm a bit of a Lindbergh aficionado (fully acknowledging that the whole "America First" movement was wrong and wrong-headed), looked at the back of the jacket and saw glowing comments on the book from Maddie Albright, Chris Matthews and several other unrepentant Liberals.

So I decided to page through it (not about to spend any $$$ on it ... maybe when it hits the used bookstore)

The chronicling of FDR's blatant abuse of power and outright vindictiveness under color of authority when it came to "dealing" with America First and Lindbergh is ... breathtaking. We're talking serious police-state tactics here. Right down to the exercise of the 1917 espionage act to intimidate news outlets that were publishing leaks from members of the military opposed to FDR's policies.

I would LOVE to be in the audience when someone like Albright or Matthews or one of the other Libs on the back of the jacket were speaking and during the Q/A ask them whether - given that they'd read and provide positive reviews for the book - they saw any similarities between how FDR dealt with his political enemies and how Obama seems to have done so (IRS targeting of Conservatives and Conservative orgs, AP wiretappings, etc).

Ok, I think that represents a genuine thread hijack. Sorry ...

[Albion Wilde]

...The chronicling of FDR's blatant abuse of power and outright vindictiveness under color of authority when it came to "dealing" with America First and Lindbergh is ... breathtaking. We're talking serious police-state tactics here. ...

A most interesting post. How different things would be if they had succeeded -- perhaps no Vietnam War for us at all. Looking forward, it's daunting to think we can ever elect a group of men as principled and strong as we will need -- strong like our Founders -- to turn back the disgusting mess being promulgated now.

Stick a fork in us.

I did not know about this movement per se, nor Lindbergh's involvement in it. The Wikipedia and Conservapedia pages don't explain what FDR did to Lindbergh; but here is a most interesting chart from the Conservapedia page. It shows that, indeed, " politics makes for strange bedfellows."