Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
As someone guilty on all three counts, I have to wonder aloud what the Great Lady might have made of the likes of El Rushbo and his current tirade against the honest criticism of Colin Powell.
Is this what it comes down to? Honorable and loyal servants of the public trust, acting and speaking in good faith being assaulted by a pompous, arrogant, self-righteous, bellicose wind bag of mediocre talent and no visible scruple? I am one of the first to defend the right of free speech but I cannot reconcile the Fat Man's vitriolic effluvia. Powell voiced an honest opinion in the interest of improving the state of the RNC, made a mild, professional criticism about the state of the debate coming from the right and Limbaugh, who is in no way whatsoever an official of the party, a veteran public servant in either military or civil capacity or even a credentialed journalist launches a personal assault on the man.
Words fail me.
About Me
- Kwisatz Philosopher
- A philosopher and amateur scientist, I have great interest in almost every field of study and avenue of research. Born of counter-culture veterans, nurtured on Star Trek and Jim Henson. I cut my teeth on Heinlein and took my first lessons in the shadow of the Cold War. My first tutors were Professor James Burke and Bill Cosby. I see the brilliant future where the only thing brighter than the stars we walk amongst are the discoveries that take us to them.
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