[Peace-discuss] Youth babbling comments by David McCullough

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Carl,
    The David McCullough comments are fantastic in their ability to capture the present dynamic 
organizing  what passes for speech from the youths of America today...  I've tried (and luckily 
succeeded) in getting my sister to stop speaking like a California valley girl---and she finally accepts 
the wisdom of the many progressive critics of the present social order.   I am afraid that I've run across 
a huge number of blithering idiots in the course of my travails of late, and I am sad to say that my 
generation is populated with a super-critical mass of them.  This country certainly does not have a 
particularly bright future ahead of it as far as I'm concerned.  If the mass tendency towards talking like 
imbeciles who have crashed their heads a few too many times hitting rocks after surfing SoCal beaches 
does not cease---I sometimes think I will go absolutely insane....
                           Best,
                           Nicholas T. Dahlheim


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To:      Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Straining at a gnat...
Date:    Mon, 19 May 2008 21:02:29 +0000

> [Kennedy was a statist reactionary, proclaiming in this speech a new American
> fascism, in pursuit of which he spread murder and destruction from Latin
> America to SE Asia -- resulting in the deaths of, among others, some four
> million people in Asia.  Now he's a liberal paragon ("Obama's just like JFK!"),
> so all this popular historian can find to deplore is interference with his
> syntactical structures...  --CGE]
> 
> 	David McCullough urges BC grads to speak properly
> 	May 19, 3:33 PM (ET)
> 
> NEWTON, Mass. (AP) - Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough has a
> suggestion for what young people can do for their country.
> "Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly
> rampant among your generation," McCullough implored Boston College's class of
> 2008 at commencement ceremonies Monday.
> He said he's particularly troubled by the "relentless, wearisome use of words"
> such as like, awesome and actually.
> "Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not
> what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your
> country actually," he said.
> Graduates apparently thought his speech was, like, awesome. They gave him a
> standing ovation.
> 
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