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'A Man Who Could Have Been Great'
The Pipeline ^ | 12 Dec 2022 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 12/14/2022 7:08:53 PM PST by Rummyfan

One of the best and most poignant moments in the underappreciated 1999 TV movie, RKO 281, about the making of Citizen Kane and the battle between William Randolph Hearst and the brash upstart Orson Welles, comes when Hearst, defeated, broke, and broken, defends himself and the choices he's made in an argument with his mistress, Marion Davies:

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Hearst seemed to have everything: wealth, political influence, multiple homes, a beautiful actress-mistress in California and a wife and five sons back home in New York. And, of course, a media empire that included prominent newspapers across the country. He tried his hand at politics, serving two terms in the House as a Democrat, but losing races for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1904, mayor of New York (twice), and governor of New York. Relentlessly acquisitive, he eventually spent himself into penury, losing control of his company and retiring into seclusion. As James Cromwell, the actor portraying Hearst in the film cited above, says: "I am a man who could have been great, but was not."

If that reminds you of anybody, join the club. Donald J. Trump's recent lackluster announcement that he will seek the GOP nomination for president of the United States in 2024 has a Hearstian air about it, the last cry of a wounded bull who could have been great during the four years the nation allotted him in the Oval Office, but was not. Of course, he did some splendid things with both the economy and in the realm of foreign policy, most if not all of which have been overturned, reversed, and otherwise destroyed by the regime of the doddering Joe Biden. But he failed early and often to grasp the peril he was in...

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1 posted on 12/14/2022 7:08:53 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

They don’t like him when he is aggressive and they don’t like him when he is more low-keyed.

In others, they hate Donald Trump, and actually fear him because his goal is to tear down their World!


2 posted on 12/14/2022 7:20:30 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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In others, they hate Donald Trump, and actually fear him because his goal is to tear down their World!

And this is the real difference between President Trump and DeSantis!

One is a true Leader willing to go where all other politicians fear to tread in his America First Agenda, while every the others hide behind Policy Statements and really don't want to do the heavy lifting that President Trump has already proven he will do as President!



3 posted on 12/14/2022 7:23:11 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Rummyfan

the four years the nation allotted him in the Oval Office

More like two years in office and two under siege.
Not to mention the ongoing attacks and “investigations”...


4 posted on 12/14/2022 7:24:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I think Trump’s HUGE announcement tomorrow IS he is going to run for speaker!!


5 posted on 12/14/2022 7:29:15 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: tet68
the four years the nation allotted him in the Oval Office

All the while his own Party fighting him every step of the way, and he was STILL Able to complete large parts of his agenda and is STILL the most successful President in our History!
6 posted on 12/14/2022 7:30:03 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Rummyfan
Relentlessly acquisitive, he eventually spent himself into penury, losing control of his company and retiring into seclusion.

Not exactly. He retained control of his publications and bounced back when the economy recovered after the Great Depression.

7 posted on 12/14/2022 7:42:46 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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Despite being a prominent "progressive" Democrat, Hearst turned against Communism and then the New Deal. He opposed US recognition of the Soviet Union and his publications exposed the Holodmor, Stalin's holocaust in Ukraine. Did these actions motivate Deep Staters to try to "cancel" him?
8 posted on 12/14/2022 7:46:44 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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"I am a man who could have been great, but was not."

Well, that's true for most of us.

9 posted on 12/14/2022 8:16:40 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Rummyfan

In her younger days, my mother was a Hearst reporter. She had some funny stories about him, but she said he was the best boss she ever had.


10 posted on 12/15/2022 12:22:26 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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