Food for thought on Kerry and Fonda
Feb. 21st, 2004 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakA discussion of whether or not those photos were evidence of a Kerry/Fonda alliance of some nature: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=240876
Take it as you will.
I, personally, have found this board to be frequented by reasonably intelligent people of all political beliefs, and most of them are damn good about checking their facts and sources before they post. The first few posters in this thread seem to be among those careful board members.
They're certainly all more eloquent on this subject than I can ever be. ^_^
All I will say, for myself, is that attendance at the same rallies that were anti-Vietnam does not constitute complete alignment of beliefs, not on the war, not on whether anyone who fought there is evil, not on anything. As a liberal in good standing and a former college activist, I can tell you that most of the attendees at *any* liberal rally of any sort, when pinned down on the subject of why they are there, give widely different explanations. If probed further, they have pretty divurgent beliefs on all sorts of other "liberal" topics. ^_^
Edit: I'm annoyed at the NYT website.... They're charging a couple bucks for the privilege of reading the entire article.... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the daily paper itself perhaps half that? At non-subscriber prices, mind you? The rest of the links are good, though, particularly Snopes.com, and the commentary still seems fairly sound to me. (Until the inevitable MB sniping between posters begins... ^_^ )
Take it as you will.
I, personally, have found this board to be frequented by reasonably intelligent people of all political beliefs, and most of them are damn good about checking their facts and sources before they post. The first few posters in this thread seem to be among those careful board members.
They're certainly all more eloquent on this subject than I can ever be. ^_^
All I will say, for myself, is that attendance at the same rallies that were anti-Vietnam does not constitute complete alignment of beliefs, not on the war, not on whether anyone who fought there is evil, not on anything. As a liberal in good standing and a former college activist, I can tell you that most of the attendees at *any* liberal rally of any sort, when pinned down on the subject of why they are there, give widely different explanations. If probed further, they have pretty divurgent beliefs on all sorts of other "liberal" topics. ^_^
Edit: I'm annoyed at the NYT website.... They're charging a couple bucks for the privilege of reading the entire article.... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the daily paper itself perhaps half that? At non-subscriber prices, mind you? The rest of the links are good, though, particularly Snopes.com, and the commentary still seems fairly sound to me. (Until the inevitable MB sniping between posters begins... ^_^ )
