{"id":15735,"date":"2013-11-21T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15735"},"modified":"2013-11-21T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:56:37","slug":"gettysburg-balderdash-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/gettysburg-balderdash-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg Balderdash. Yeah."},"content":{"rendered":"

When I disagree with some aggrandizing fuss being made over some political celebrity, cause, event, or anniversary, I tend to keep my mouth shut. When I do open my yap to point out what I think should be obvious, it sometimes raises a stink<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So mostly it seems to be time wasted to pipe up to say, “Hey, but …” when the whole propagandized nation is waving flags, worshipping tyrants, or indulging in an uncritical emotional frenzy.<\/p>\n

Thus I kept my mouth shut earlier this week as the media went into one of its periodic Honest Abe panegyrics re the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.<\/p>\n

But Jim Bovard, never one to be shy about such matters, says it right. The speech, and Lincoln, are still balderdash<\/a> after all these years.<\/p>\n

The only thing I really think is right about the Gettysburg Addy is a rather obscure fact that ought to be better known and puts our current Authoritah worship into perspective. On the day he gave that speech, the president of these united States was an afterthought. He wasn’t even the main speaker. That was Edward Everett<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Can you imagine that? Can you imagine an event organizer placing a Clinton, a Bush, or an Obama as just one more speaker on a slate of talkers? And basically treating him as an ordinary human being instead of acting like he’s some grand pasha or potentate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I disagree with some aggrandizing fuss being made over some political celebrity, cause, event, or anniversary, I tend to keep my mouth shut. When I do open my yap to point out what I think should be obvious, it sometimes raises a stink. So mostly it seems to be time wasted to pipe up to say, “Hey, but …” when the whole propagandized nation is waving flags, worshipping tyrants, or indulging in an uncritical emotional frenzy. Thus I kept my mouth shut earlier this week as the media went into one of its periodic Honest Abe panegyrics re the…<\/p>\n

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