Reply #125: K&R

[Ice-9]

This was a superb post. (The "R" is in spirit for now.)

Although I suppose I understand why people of good faith would want to ask Senator Obama about his prior relationships, I agree that this line of questioning is beginning to have a HUAC feel. And some of the questions (e.g., "Does Rev. Wright love America as much as you?") are smarmy and do not even appear to have been asked in good faith.

Mr. ROBESON: I say that he is as patriotic an American as there can be, and you gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

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As you point out, it's interesting that HUAC took aim at the American Crusade against Lynching but never thought to ask whether lynching itself was an un-American activity. I guess we can live with extrajudicial slaughter by hooded terrorists, just as long as they're not communists.

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