From: f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Jack S Defends MLKing Slur (Was: ARF DEFENDS HIS HONOR)
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:19:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: ccsvax.1992Oct16.111932.1525
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <92289.165730U19807@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U19807@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> In article <1992Oct14.202322.1498@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
> says:
>>        Duke may or may not have made such a statement but I personally
>>would not want to rely on reporting from the Dallas Morning News as a
>>source.  Living in Texas, I think we have better newspapers.
> 
> I wouldn't know about the _Dallas_News' overall quality and whatnot,but don't
> you think that even a paper you (apparently) dislike a great deal would look
> pretty foolish in making up nonexistent quotes,thereby courting a libel suit
> or two?

	Oh, my mistake!  I forgot.  We live in America and always get the
straight unbiased word from our responsible journalists.  That's why I
believe everything I read.  Sorry.
 
>>This report
>>on Duke sounds most uncharacteristic of his statements in recent years
> 
> Oh? If he said it recently,then it _is_ a "statement of recent years",
> uncharacteristic or not.

	A pretty iffy "if".  If you lived in this part of the country
you would probably unavoidably be exposed to some Duke rhetoric and
find that he sounds like some kind of clone of Pat Buchanan (or vice
versa).  Louisianans did not find him to be some kind of neo-Nazi
freak and almost elected him Governor.  To stop him the Republican
party sent in the big boys, George and Danny, to electioneer against
him.  But they noted his message which you can find simply by reading
the Republican platform as they saw what they thought would sell this
year.  You probably won't read that in your local rag sheet. Incidentally,
Duke is not someone I would vote for if he were on the ticket in Texas,
given any reasonable alternative, but not because of the wild allegations
made against him which I have great difficulty with.  I think any careful study
will show he got the treatment by our "free press" and is much more of
a victim than potential victimizer.  From what I've seen I think you will
also find newspapers outside of Louisiana more careless and accusatory
in their reporting about him.  At least he wasn't ignored like most
third party candidates, many of whom had good ideas that needed to be heard.
 
>>and like all of us, I suspect he could have grown up some.  I understand
>>Senator Byrd was once a Klan member. If anybody over thirty will look
>>back a few years with any honesty they should find some interesting and
>>perhaps fascinating changes; if not, God pity them.  The human being
>>is not a static robot but is capable of remarkable change.
> 
> Laudable sentiments and all,but this was hardly the point of that _Dallas_
> _News_ article. People are capable of change-very few ever stay _exactly_
> the same over the years,to overstate the obvious-but if Duke actually said
> something which was quoted in the _DN_ that indicates he hasn't changed all
> that much,any amount of rhetoric on your part will not alter the fact that
> Duke said what he said.
> 
> (Incidentally,Byrd may've been a former Klan member,but there's not a whole
>  lot of evidence that he still holds his former,er,_associates_ in high
>  regard as community role models as Duke apparently does.)


	What evidence? 

>       ** Chris Krolczyk,esq.  * DISCLAIMER: My opinions are in **
>       ** Maniac-at-Large      * no way endorsed by the Univer- **
>       ** U19807@UICVM.BITNET  * sity of Illinois at Chicago.   **
>       ** u19807@uicvm.uic.edu * So there. Nyaah.               **

	Joe Gaut
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