That's a bit unfair. I have not advocated killing any left wing kooks in weeks..../s
“And he knows how to conjure the characters youve never heard of as well as the ones you expect. ...... John Lindsay, the media darling whose disastrous mayoralty helped run New York City into a ditchPerlstein quotes a New York Times op-ed describing Central Park under Lindsay as a combination of decadence and barbarism; a cut-rate FelliniSatyricon
bwahahahaha!
This guy is so wrong. We only call for a swift, speedy demise of liberalism. We know the left wing kooks need not die if they can only be enlightened before they they kill the country.
If that doesn’t work........LOL!
Shortened to "law'n order" by those contempt-spewing nut ball puke liberals who never could get it. WE REALLY DID WANT THE LAW ENFORCED. PERIOD. We were tired of the fires, the smoke, night-time curfews, and people being dragged out of cars and beaten while traveling home from work. That's all there was to it.
But why two Americas? Well one critical reason perhaps omitted by Mr. Perlstein's book (I bet, I have not read the book) is the "Fairness Doctrine." We weren't the Silent Majority we were the Silenced Majority.
I have only to remember those days searching for limited circulation periodicals to find the rest of the story. Certainly many cities had multiple newspapers back then which included conservative ones but newspapers were for current news. What of "old" news such as LBJ's pre-JFK-assassination problems: Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, the "suicide" of Henry Marshall.
Some great radio entertainers around Cincinnati in those days (Jerry Thomas, Richard King for examples) but nothing where you could really discuss virtually anything. Too dangerous for the license owner.
I will always remember the early years of modern talk radio (late '80s early 90's). The comment most often made by callers was "I didn't know other people believe as I do. I thought I was the only one."
Buckley's Firing Line one hour each week on PBS was no longer enough balance for conservative opinion, thank you.
Liberals don't like it but we are a better Republic with a truly free press (again). Never, never, never give it up.
He sums up three decades’ worth of Hollywood political activism in one tone-deaf Warren Beatty remark from 1972: “A great deal of the leadership of this generation comes from music and film people, whether people like that fact or not.”
Nixon only appeared Conservative when compared with the alternative.
In my life time I rate Nixon as bad as Carter as far as Presidents go.
It's by Ross Douthat (don't forget to give the writer credit). His blog is definitely worth a look (usually, though maybe not right now). There are some responses from liberals who might not mind beating Ross up, if not killing him.
The country was falling apart in the late 60s. A lot of what Nixon did was mistaken and reprehensible, but it's hard to see that another President would have done appreciably better.