https://freerepublic.com/tag/steym/ en-us Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:16:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329255/posts We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its “mainstream” media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Senator Edward M Kennedy’s passing, America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it. In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo... The Bulletin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329255/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:16:27 GMT