[lbo-talk] St. Hubert Humphrey

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 3 11:01:02 PDT 2011


On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:


> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html
>
> Don't have energy to take this nonsense on, but I remember Humphrey as
> a 2nd rate hack who supported the Vnam war even in his campaign for
> President until the final weeks of the campaign. I also remember
> learning that he cosponsered a bill during Truman-McCarthy era to put
> commies in concentration camps. I hate to see Humphrey hagiography
> catching on. Anyone able to provide a link to a article about Humphrey
> that does not "Saint" him the way Perlstein does? Not the most
> important thing in the world, but bad history is seldom a good idea.

Rick is one of those left-liberals whose study of the right leads them into apologetics for some awful Dems. HHH, yuck.

Doug



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