--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Steven L. Robinson
> wrote:
>
> > Soulforce cofounder Mel White knew two Jerry
> Falwells: the evangelical
> > preacher who spewed hate from the pulpit and the
> family man who
> > wasn't so
> > bad once you got to know him.
>
> So what? He could have been the nicest guy in the
> world in private,
> but his public role was entirely toxic. Ann Coulter
> is reported to be
> pretty nice too.
Hard to believe of Ann C,, but Joe McCarthy was also. He was baffled that people hated him, it was just a show for him. He never got taht his show ruined lives. He was wasn't even _particularly_ anticommunist, I mean, he didn't like commies, who did in America in the 1950s?, but it wasn't a big deal for him except as a grandstand. He got on that bandwagon because Kefauver beat him to organized crime.
It works the other way around, as
> well: Marx was a
> prick in private, but who cares?
Rakesh B., for one.
For all the somewhat harsh things I have said about Chuck as a person, he certainly was not anywhere near as bad in private as Falwell was in public!
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