Comments on: Kentucky: A Melungeon from Covington http://www.radioopensource.org/kentucky-a-melungeon-from-covington/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Don Solomon http://www.radioopensource.org/kentucky-a-melungeon-from-covington/#comment-78918 Don Solomon Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:35:53 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=726#comment-78918 Stone became one of my heroes as soon as I read my first copy of the Weekly. He soon became the hero of heroes. The Weekly never printed gasbag propaganda, and never used secret inside sources. Everything Izzy uncovered about our government's lies during the Vietnam War was found by walking over to the Government Printing Office and buying their publications. It made the exposé all the better that these horrendous utterances were made by our own officials, speaking for the record. Had Robert McNamara bothered to read Stone's critique of his organization-man phiilosophy, and take it to heart, he might have avoided forty years of guilt over his utter lack of character. It is an utter canard to say that a partisan of the left (or right) cannot speak the truth. Facts are facts, and Stone knew better than anyone that if you are armed with the facts, you cannot be dismissed. He was the first blogger, and had he not patiently exposed McCarthyism from the moment McCarthy came to prominence, Ed Murrow would have had nothing with which to critique McCarthy. I was dismayed when the Weekly became the Bi-Weekly, and even more saddened when it ceased publication altogether, and I am still honored to have my copies on the bookshelf. Stone became one of my heroes as soon as I read my first copy of the Weekly. He soon became the hero of heroes. The Weekly never printed gasbag propaganda, and never used secret inside sources. Everything Izzy uncovered about our government’s lies during the Vietnam War was found by walking over to the Government Printing Office and buying their publications. It made the exposé all the better that these horrendous utterances were made by our own officials, speaking for the record. Had Robert McNamara bothered to read Stone’s critique of his organization-man phiilosophy, and take it to heart, he might have avoided forty years of guilt over his utter lack of character.

It is an utter canard to say that a partisan of the left (or right) cannot speak the truth. Facts are facts, and Stone knew better than anyone that if you are armed with the facts, you cannot be dismissed. He was the first blogger, and had he not patiently exposed McCarthyism from the moment McCarthy came to prominence, Ed Murrow would have had nothing with which to critique McCarthy.

I was dismayed when the Weekly became the Bi-Weekly, and even more saddened when it ceased publication altogether, and I am still honored to have my copies on the bookshelf.

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