…but what does it say about the CNN “commentator” and wannabe-Huey Long-style fulminator that, while he apparently doesn’t read the New York Times (which, whatever you think of the paper, is just stupid for someone in the news business), he still feels free to make statements like this:
I’ll bet you know about the illegal alien amnesty marches, but I don’t know of a single news organization, electronic or print[,] that pointed out that May 1 is America’s Law Day. The cable news networks gave almost wall-to-wall coverage to the illegal alien demonstrations, but they apparently couldn’t find any American celebrating Law Day.
Strange. In addition to the NY Times mention I noted yesterday, news.google.com turns up 327 mentions.
I guess that’s not as dramatic, though.
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Correction: I added the word “wannabe” after Michael Deibert reminded me that, as mixed a reputation as Huey Long has, Lou Dobbs is not qualified even to clean up spit in the shadow of the man’s gravestone, much less hold a candle to Long’s eloquence and guts. In retrospect, I regret dignifying Dobbs by comparing him to an actual man, but now that I went to the bother of learning how to do an HTML “text anchor,” so that readers can jump straight from “wannabe” in the text to this correction, I’m just going to let it stand.
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Power-mad would-be-dictator that he was, Huey, despite his image of a buffoon (which was just that, an image) was far more eloquent than Mr. Dobbs, in my view. I always think of the speech that Long gave in the Cajun town of St. Martinville where, in Longfellow’s famous poem, Evangeline waited for Gabriel back in the days of the Acadian migration to Louisiana. As someone who appreciates a nice turn of phrase, I always though it was one of the most eloquent public pronouncements of any American politician, no matter how warped Long eventually became. It did take quite a bit of guts to stand up to big oil and the Louisiana political machine at the time.
“This oak is an immortal spot, made so by Longfellow’s poem, but Evangeline is not the only one who has waited here in disappointment. Where are the schools that you have waited for your children to have, that never come? Where are the roads and highways that you send your money to build, that are no nearer now than ever before? Where are the institutions to care for the sick and disabled? Evangeline wept bitter tears in her disappointment, but it only lasted throughout one lifetime. Your tears in this country, around this oak, have lasted for generations. Give me the chance to dry the eyes of those who still weep here.”