[lbo-talk] St. Hubert Humphrey

[Gar Lipow]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
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>> 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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But I've seen this linked all over the liberal sites. All the freaking
liberals are pushing it.  They are trying to extend the "Nader" meme
back in time to blame Nixon on "the left".  Someone somewhere has to
have written about Humphrey. Though he was always so supremely dull
maybe nobody has. I see a great Hunter Thompson quote about him.
"There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly
dishonest old hack Hubert Humphrey is until you've followed him around
for a while." But I don't know if Thompson wrote much more. One of the
problem may have been that at the time that what Thompson said was so
obvious that nobody bothered writing an entire article on it.

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