Comments on: [links] Link salad says TGIF http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/10/links-link-salad-says-tgif-3/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cora http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/10/links-link-salad-says-tgif-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4418 Cora Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:10:19 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8704#comment-4418 This Fox News host not only smears Obama by omitting part of the interview, he also manages to smear the people who really brought down the Iron Curtain, i.e. the brave people in many Eastern European countries, whom Obama mentioned in his comment. Okay, so Obama forgot Hungary (first country to literally get rid of the iron curtain) and East Germany, but at least he remembered that it was the people of Eastern Europe and not American presidents who ended the Cold War. This Fox News host not only smears Obama by omitting part of the interview, he also manages to smear the people who really brought down the Iron Curtain, i.e. the brave people in many Eastern European countries, whom Obama mentioned in his comment.

Okay, so Obama forgot Hungary (first country to literally get rid of the iron curtain) and East Germany, but at least he remembered that it was the people of Eastern Europe and not American presidents who ended the Cold War.

]]> By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/10/links-link-salad-says-tgif-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4417 tetar Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:38:58 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8704#comment-4417 Incidentally, J. Edgar Hoover was desperate to prove Hemingway a Russian spy and Hemingway delighted in teasing and thwarting Hoover, so shining on the Soviet agents would have been in character. All this back-biting and second-guessing is as gossipy and useless as any other celebrity tabloidism. Remember the year they proved Hemingway was gay by writing a Fruedian bio that managed completely to miss the fact that Hemingway defined courage as Grace Under Pressure and HAD A MOTHER NAMED GRACE. Etc. Incidentally, J. Edgar Hoover was desperate to prove Hemingway a Russian spy and Hemingway delighted in teasing and thwarting Hoover, so shining on the Soviet agents would have been in character. All this back-biting and second-guessing is as gossipy and useless as any other celebrity tabloidism. Remember the year they proved Hemingway was gay by writing a Fruedian bio that managed completely to miss the fact that Hemingway defined courage as Grace Under Pressure and HAD A MOTHER NAMED GRACE. Etc.

]]> By: tetar http://www.jlake.com/2009/07/10/links-link-salad-says-tgif-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4416 tetar Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:33:35 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=8704#comment-4416 Re: Hemingway, the article and apparently the content of the book cited in it are weak. Sounds more like he shined on some importunate assholes on both sides of a ridiculous situation. Re: RAH's sequel to Friday? He'd have called it Friday Knight and set it in Camelot, a sentient space ship with an Electra complex. Re: Hemingway, the article and apparently the content of the book cited in it are weak. Sounds more like he shined on some importunate assholes on both sides of a ridiculous situation.

Re: RAH’s sequel to Friday? He’d have called it Friday Knight and set it in Camelot, a sentient space ship with an Electra complex.

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