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Skip to comments.Dukakis seen as possible Senate replacement if Kerry tapped for State
Posted on 12/17/2012 3:48:19 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Dukakis seen as possible Senate replacement if Kerry tapped for State By Alexander Bolton - 12/17/12 05:25 AM ET
Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, may be headed back to the political spotlight as hes considered a likely interim replacement for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.).
President Obama is set to tap Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of State, according to media reports.
This means Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) needs to find someone to fill Kerrys seat until a special election can be held in the late spring or early summer.
Dukakis, who is 79, has remained politically active. He campaigned for Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) this fall and teaches at Northeastern University.
The Democratic primary for Kerrys seat will be intense and Patrick is expected to tap someone as an interim replacement who would promise not to run in the special election.
Hell most likely appoint a placeholder. A lot of people speculating thats Mike Dukakis, said Jim Spencer, president of the Campaign Network, a Boston-based political consulting group. Thats the most obvious choice. Everybody thinks its Dukakis.
Reports: Obama to nominate Kerry for secretary of State
David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said he has heard Dukakis floated as an interim successor along with Vicki Kennedy, the late Sen. Ted Kennedys (D-Mass.) widow.
Paleologos said Dukakis has been very close to Patrick ever since Patrick thought about running for governor.
[Dukakis] was one of the first people he consulted with when he thought about running, said Paleologos.
Another Boston-based Democratic operative said he had heard both Dukakis and Kennedy mentioned as possible interim successors.
A trio of House Democrats are seen as strong possible contenders for the partys nomination in the special election: Reps. Ed Markey, Mike Capuano and Stephen Lynch.
Markey and Lynch have already reached out to Democratic operatives to feel out possible bids, according to a source familiar with private discussions.
One Democratic operative said Capuano has hinted in recent days he may instead run in 2014 to succeed Patrick as governor.
The state must hold a special election to fill Kerrys seat 145 to 160 days after it becomes vacant.
Patrick could tap a Democrat who plans to run in the special election if it appears the party needs an advantage against a strong Republican candidate. The strongest Republican option would be Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who lost to Warren in November, say political experts.
But Patrick has said he is likely to follow the same course he did in 2010, when he picked Paul Kirk to fill Kennedys seat temporarily.
I expect to do the same thing I did last time, Patrick told reporters, according to The Boston Globe. Im not ruling out other options. But, as a practical matter, its hard for me to imagine how you could serve in the Senate for a four-month period and also run a statewide campaign in a four-month period and do both of them well.
Democrats are optimistic about their chances of keeping Kerrys seat. Political analysts say Brown would be easier to beat in 2013 than he was in the 2010 special election, when he defeated state Attorney General Martha Coakley.
The context in 2013 will be different than the special election of 2010, which was in the middle of winter at a point of deep Democratic demoralization. Democrats then were unenthusiastic about their choice, they were unenthusiastic about the president, said Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the department of political science at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
Ubertaccio said Democrats would not be asleep at the wheel, as he said they were in 2010, in another special election against Brown.
If he is the nominee, it will energize Democratic voters who dont want to go through the humiliation of losing to him twice in a special election. The political winds have changed sufficiently that hes going to face a harder climb in 2012 than 2010, he said.
Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report who specializes in Senate races, noted Brown continues to enjoy a high approval rating in Massachusetts. But she agrees he will have a tougher race in 2013 than in the 2010 special election.
I do agree the dynamic is going to be different, she said. Democrats were pretty embarrassed by what happened, are going to work hard not to repeat history.
Brown quickly raised millions of dollars in 2010 from conservatives who were outraged over the looming passage of the Affordable Care Act and eager to capture Kennedys seat as a political scalp. His campaign was fueled by the same enthusiasm that powered Tea Party candidates around the country that year.
The anti-Obama conservative revolt has since lost steam and winning Kerrys seat does not have the same cachet as seizing Kennedys.
There isnt the kind of animus against John Kerry. If the Democrats put up a formidable candidate, that candidate will give Brown a real battle, said Dan Payne, a Boston-based Democratic analyst.
Charlie Baker, who ran for governor and lost to Patrick, and former Gov. Bill Weld are other possibilities to run in the Senate Republican primary, depending on whether Brown runs again for Senate.
Payne, however, said he sees Baker and Weld as long shots to run for the Senate.
He made an announcement the day before Susan Rice withdrew [her name from consideration for secretary of state] saying he would run in a special election, Payne said of Brown.
Brown hinted he may return to the Senate in his farewell speech last week, which political observers interpreted as a signal he would run for Kerrys seat.
"As I've said many times before, victory and defeat is temporary," Brown said. "Depending on what happens, and where we go, all of us, we may obviously meet again, but I'm looking forward to continuing on with those friendships, with continuing on working with my staff."
that 60's show is back! starring a long cast of failed democrats!
surely there's job for Jimmy Carter in the new obama administration! How about Algor for EPA!
that 60's show is back! starring a long cast of failed democrats!
surely there's job for Jimmy Carter in the new obama administration! How about Algor for EPA!
Surely we can take this seat but for the love of God not with RINO Brown. There has to be someone better.
Would I be surprised Dukakis gets appointed? At this point... no. It's hard to imagine any political theatrics and revived dead political careers on the left would surprise me.
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How did an Israeli soldier - in a photo from April 2002 - get mistaken for Dukakis?
Not kosher! :(
It's great man!! Obama has tax cheats in his administration, now he wants a War Criminal and Traitor as Secretary of State.
In Massachusetts????? Rots O' Ruck.
Brown is about the best they (notice I didn't say "we")can do in Mass.
"...all military personal should wear ties in combat"
I thought M. Stanley Dukakis was dead!
Bars in DC are stocking up on rubbing alcohol and cotton balls.
Funny how the reporter notes that Dukakis "teaches at Northeastern University" as an example of how he has "remained politically active."
You don't consider aggressive leftist political indoctrinating of students to be "politically active" ?
Puke...Sen.-pro tem-Dukakis? HC ping
It just gets worser and worser.
Why isn't the former governor Romney going to be chosen, after all he'd fit in well with the democrat controlled senate.
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Those in the market for a fair priced hovercraft may strike gold in Southborough. The fire department will likely be getting rid of its craft, Chief Joseph Mauro said Friday.
Those in the market for a fair priced hovercraft may strike gold in Southborough.
The fire department will likely be getting rid of its craft, Chief Joseph Mauro said Friday.
"It's one of those pieces of equipment you really have to work with and train with all the time to be proficient with," he said.
As the town has tightened its belt during the recession, both the police and fire departments have cut down on training. Last year, then-chief John Mauro Jr. argued against a $25,000 slash to fire overtime for fiscal 2012, saying the department already didn't have enough overtime to provide adequate training.
Joseph Mauro Friday acknowledged that the lack of money has made it tough to justify maintaining and training firefighters to man the craft, especially since it normally isn't used too many times during the year.
"It's difficult to control and stop," he said. "It could be potentially dangerous to us, and we want to make sure that if we're going to use it, we're going to use it right."
The craft was obtained by the town in 2003 through a $25,000 grant secured by former state Rep. Paul Loscocco.
John Mauro Jr. said yesterday that the department realized the need for the hovercraft after rescue workers answered a call in the Sudbury Reservoir in a rowboat one day and the oars broke on some rocks.
"When the elevation of the reservoir changes, it doesn't take much (drawdown) before you start seeing rocks," he said.
With the reservoir covering nearly a quarter of the town's area, Mauro said the hovercraft was identified as an important tool for the department, especially if the need arose to save someone trapped on ice far from shore.
Unlike a regular boat, a hovercraft doesn't need to be tethered to shore during an ice rescue, he said.
"They're not supposed to, but a lot of people go out in the middle ice fishing," he said. "In a lot of cases, we just don't have the amount of rope we need to make rescues."
Though it was not used in too many dramatic rescues, firefighters did use the craft many years over the years. In 2003, firefighters picked up two people who got stuck on the ice, and in 2004 they rescued a 40-pound husky named Virgil.
Chief Joseph Mauro said the department will likely look to sell the craft and use the money to buy a different sort of boat that's easier to handle.
Shrewsbury will now be the only town in the vicinity with a hovercraft.
When asked for comment Friday, Selectmen Chairman John Rooney said he thought the hovercraft was representative of a larger problem.
"I think additional funds are absolutely necessary to train police and fire," he said.
Rooney said if either chief made a compelling case that training was extremely thin, he would advocate for budget increases.
"If something happens out in the water, and you don't have anyone trained — at that point it's too late to do anything," he said.
(Brad Petrishen can be reached at 508-490-7463 or email@example.com. For Southborough news throughout the day, follow him at twitter.com/Brad_Petrishen.)


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Gwyneth Paltrow Wants Chick-Fil-A And Nothing Else For Her Birthday
Jonathan Higbee | September 17, 2013
Gwyneth Paltrow might have turned off the few remaining fans she's managed to hold onto after an appearance on Chelsea Lately Monday night. When asked about her plans for her upcoming 41st birthday, Gwyneth responded, "This year it's Chick-fil-A. That's it."
Only someone living under a cock would have missed the international mainstream news headlines Chick-fil-A made throughout 2012 over its millions of dollars in thinly-veiled donations to anti-gay organizations, right?
Anyway, now Gwyneth gets more than just Chick-fil-A for her bday—she also gets bad press!
Happy birthday, Gwyneth.


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The New York Times' Digital Makeover
Martin Nisenholtz is presiding over a surge in digital revenue at the old gray lady.
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- The steamy summer Friday morning when I visit Martin Nisenholtz comes at the end of a bleak week of news for his employer, the New York Times Co. (Charts) A few days earlier, it announced that it's planning to shrink the Times - both the size of the paper (by 1.5 inches) and its production-related workforce (by a third).
Yet Nisenholtz, the senior vice president for digital operations, has reason to be cheerful. Amid uninspiring second-quarter results in which the company's revenue and profit were basically flat from the same period a year earlier, Internet revenue soared from $49 million to $66 million. Radiating pride, Nisenholtz declares, "We're really in an amazing position.... We're in the best shape we've ever been in."
Nisenholtz's optimism is not just fired by the numbers. For more than a decade, since he left Ameritech and joined the Times, no one has pushed harder for the company to embrace the Web and all its possibilities. The resistance he met was often stiff.
But now the Times is emerging as arguably the most Web-savvy newspaper outfit in America. And while it's far too early to say how successful its online adventurousness will be - or whether it has the balls and vision to transition from a mainly print operation to a mainly digital one-there's no doubt that the company is at least steaming in the right direction. "The Times is like a battleship," Nisenholtz observes. "It turns very slowly, but once it turns, look out!"
Nisenholtz, 51, dates the turning point to early 2005, when, as he explains it, "the executive committee of the company created a strategy that said we're in the business of convening communities here; we're not just in the business of pushing information at people." Behind that strategy, Nisenholtz adds, was a recognition of "the importance of the social Web - that the center of the universe is moving to our users, and that our users want to remix and use the content that we have in ways that are suitable to them."
Thus began a dizzying flurry of Netcentric changes at the Times - some financial, some technological, some cultural: The purchase of About.com in March 2005 for approximately $410 million. The integration of the print and online newsrooms. The dabbling with blogs and podcasts.
The launch of premium service TimesSelect, which placed the work of columnists and various features, such as e-mail alerts and multimedia, behind a pay wall for users not subscribing to the paper. And, most recently, the top-to-bottom redesign of NYTimes.com, complete with an array of Web 2.0-fueled innovations.
On a strictly green-eyeshade basis, the two most significant items on this list are About.com and TimesSelect. The former, Nisenholtz notes, "is blowing the doors off the business," with second-quarter revenue rising to $19.4 million from $12 million last year-a 63 percent increase that puts About on track for an annual run rate of more than $80 million.
As for TimesSelect, the service had roughly 513,000 subscribers in June, 190,000 of whom were paying the Web-only rate of $49.95 a year, thus contributing about $9.5 million to the bottom line.
When I ask if TimesSelect has been successful enough to suggest that more material be placed behind the wall, Nisenholtz replies, "The strategy isn't to move more content from the free site to the pay site; we need inventory to sell to advertisers. The strategy is to create a more robust TimesSelect" by using revenue from the service to pay for more unique content. "We think we have the right formula going," he says. "We don't want to screw it up."
Nisenholtz is equally bullish about the Web 2.0-ification of NYTimes.com. "We've got some really interesting blogs, from basically a standing start only six months ago," he says. "We've got 10,000 topic pages on the Internet waiting to be populated."
Still, Nisenholtz admits that some of the site's more forward-leaning features have yet to take off. On the Most Popular page, while the Most E-Mailed feature is, as he puts it, "the big kahuna, a significant driver of interest," Most Blogged and Most Searched are catching on more slowly. Tagging hasn't caught on at all.
And even RSS newsfeeds, which the Times adopted early, are still "a niche," Nisenholtz says. (In June, RSS feeds generated 12.2 million pageviews for the site out of a U.S. total of nearly 295 million.) "RSS is still very techie," he says. "Most people outside the business are totally unaware of it."
For Nisenholtz, making all this stuff appealing and accessible is a real challenge. "We touch 25 or 26 million people a month," he says, "and a very minimal number of them are technologically savvy.... Our median age online is 44 or 45 years old. So we have to find ways to bring people into the loop who don't know what a tag cloud is."
As Nisenholtz and his colleagues seek to strike this balance, their most valuable laboratory may prove to be MyTimes, the company's nascent foray into personalization. Debuting in limited beta (for just 5,000 users, including me) in July, the free service lets you customize your own news homepage, adding feeds from third-party blogs and news sources in addition to slicing and dicing Times content.
But what sets it apart from other user-customized online news sites is that it includes access to pages maintained by Times journalists - about two dozen of them at the moment, including such A-listers as Frank Rich, John Markoff, and David Carr-that contain their own bookmarks and feeds.
The journalists' participation in MyTimes is more than a cool feature. It's a sign of a seminal cultural shift taking place within the Times. Where once there was tension between old-line print people and the newfangled webheads, Nisenholtz explains, "the signal change of the past 18 months is that there are no pure print people left.... The newsroom is jazzed not only about the power of NYTimes.com around the world as a journalistic instrument but about what the Web can do uniquely as a new medium."
Nisenholtz is surely right about the cultural shift taking place at the Times. But though it's true that some of the change (especially among younger reporters) is being driven by excitement, an equal or greater amount is propelled by fear.
And who can blame them, given the constant stream of headlines about the precipitous and apparently inexorable decline in newspaper economics and the creeping sense that all the gloomy prophecies about the future of print are finally coming home to roost?
Nisenholtz points out that, when he first met Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., "Arthur basically said to me, 'We're not in the ink-on-paper business, we're in the news business. It doesn't matter how we distribute information; what matters is that we can make money out of it.'" Even so, Nisenholtz is loath to predict the death of print. "We expect the print side of the business to continue to grow," he tells me. "We just expect the digital side of the business to grow much faster."
About the second half of that equation, he'll get no argument from me. About the first ... well, let's say I have my doubts. And though he'd never say as much, I suspect that Nisenholtz does too. Which is why he's running so hard toward the future, even before many of the Times's readers are remotely ready to go there.
John Heilemann wrote "Pride Before the Fall." His next book is "The Valley." He lives in Brooklyn.
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I got my copy last week and just finished all of the episodes. With the exception of a few grainy scenes on some early episodes, the video is excellent. I enjoyed season 2 a lot more than I remember liking it. There's a couple of weak storylines, like James getting framed for murder. I really love Nadine going back to school and falling for Mike. The best stories from season 2 are the solving of Laura's murder and the Windom Earle arc. I watched all of the regular episodes then went back to the European version of the Pilot. It was interesting how they ended it but I think the American ending worked better, especially the way the series went along afterwards. I watched the deleted scenes, all 4 of them on disc 9, but won't be watching the bonus disc for some time due to an abundance of discs to watch.So far it's a great set.
Ah, therein lies the mix-up, sorry. I watched the series in one go earlier this year (taped from God knows when), followed by Fire Walk With Me, so it's hard to remember it all in specific detail very well.
I'm going to probably wait and get this at Christmas, along with a few other longly anticipated releases.
I'm going to probably wait and get this at Christmas, along with a few other longly anticipated releases.
Cool, thanks for the info. I'm going to order my set soon. We hear what Laura whispers in an episode from season 2.
Hmmm, well I just saw the ending, and I was wrong. It is very different, however, it's been awhile since I saw it, so I'm not sure how much closure there was... But yeah, and we DON'T hear what Laura Palmer whispers... Sorry about that. Although the dream DOES take place 25 years later.
I thought I read somewhere that they reveal who killed Laura and it was different from what happened in the series and the ending had more closure. If it turns out to be just the dream bit, I'm going to be disappointed. I'll get over it though, I mainly want the series. I've been catching bits and pieces of episodes on the Chiller channel and enjoying them still. The DVD will be the only way I can watch the entire series without missing anything.
As far as I know, it's the same, except for Cooper's dream, where we hear what Laura whispers to him. And Coop has the dream 25 years later or something.
Keep in mind people haven't seen it yet, so let's not ruin the fun of it for them eh?
Keep in mind people haven't seen it yet, so let's not ruin the fun of it for them eh?
Twin Peaks DVD I heard this set includes the European version of the Twin Peaks pilot. I never knew there was such a version. Anyone seen it before?? Any interesting storylines?
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For example, the package of diuretic the client brought in for me to see was labeled "diuretic"—useful information if a little kid spotted the unsealed envelope and mistook the contents for Skittles. Sometime later we got a copy of the medical record for that case, and that's when I knew the condition might be really serious: The diagnosis was "bad heart."
Why it's critical to documentThose of us old enough to remember the TV series Gunsmoke know that in the 19th century medical records weren't all that important. Old Doc took an untold number of bullets out of various parts of Marshal Dillon's body and never wrote down a thing. There were two reasons for that: Doc remembered everything he ever treated his patients for because he had taken care of them since birth. Equally important: Dodge City's only law office was so busy handling the marshal's criminal cases it didn't have time for malpractice cases against Old Doc.
Fast-forward to today's world of widespread medical testing and case referrals, and it's easy to see why documentation is key. So much happens during a veterinarian's relationship with a pet that it's impossible for a veterinarian to remember all the details of a single patient's history. That means quality and thoroughness in recordkeeping are crucial for medical purposes. Details about observations and noteworthy history help the attending veterinarian as he sifts through subsequent lab work and imaging reports. Content created at the beginning of a case is also critical for referral veterinarians who come into the case later. Lost or undocumented thoughts and observations by the original veterinarian can never be retrieved or re-invented.
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Why do veterinary law experts make such a big deal about complete and detailed medical records? From a legal standpoint, nothing is more vital than what those records fail to contain. When a medical record is introduced into evidence in a state veterinary board or civil veterinary malpractice case, it's likely that lawyers experienced in spotting medical and surgical indiscretions and experts in the veterinary profession will scrutinize it. These analysts have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. They already know the dog's vascular malformation was the identified illness or the cat's owner had secretly treated it with ibuprofen prior to its arrival at the clinic.
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I wondered the same thing going into test day. Anticipating that they'd be strict about exiting the building during the break, I brought nicotine gum. Alas, the proctor would only let me chew gum--nicotine or otherwise--during the break. Patch might be better if you're prone to fits.


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Brachycephalic airway syndrome, Part 2: Veterinary surgery of the soft palate and larynx
EDITOR'S NOTE: SurgerySTAT is a collaborative column between the American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) and DVM Newsmagazine.
Brachycephalic airway syndrome is described in dogs and cats that have brachycephalic conformation—a short, wide head. The primary components of the syndrome are stenotic nares, an elongated soft palate and a hypoplastic trachea (most often seen in English bulldogs). All these features can be present, or the presence and severity of each component can vary. The result is altered airway pressures.
In the first article in this series, which appeared in the April 2012 issue of DVM Newsmagazine, I reviewed your options for correcting stenotic nares. Here I discuss the options and prognosis for fixing soft palate and laryngeal abnormalities.Elongated soft palate
Avoidance of excessive carbonization with the laser is imperative. Swelling, hemorrhage, overshortening and dehiscence are potential complications. Swelling and hemorrhage are the most concerning as they can cause severe airway obstruction. Overshortening can cause nasal reflux of oral contents into the caudal nasopharynx, but this is rarely seen clinically, especially if the landmarks are used (Figure 1).


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NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West is postponing the rest of his "Yeezus" tour after a 60-foot LED screen used during his shows was damaged.
A representative for the rapper says a truck that carried the screen was in an accident Wednesday that "damaged the gear beyond repair." The truck was on its way to Vancouver.
The rep said in a statement Thursday that it would be "impossible" to put on a show until the screen is repaired.
Thursday's show in Vancouver and next week's shows in Denver and Minneapolis were postponed. The West rep planned to provide an update later on any new dates.
West's tour kicked off this month in Seattle. Rapper Kendrick Lamar is his opening act.


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Spotting me as I hop down the stairs, I see her familiar smile that perfectly suits her freckled face. With a bear-hug ready she checks me up and down, afraid that I'd come back from Africa missing an apendage.
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After replenishing my thirst for my mum's cooking, it's time for me to play Toastmaster. But where do I start? My latest trip abroad has changed the way I think about so many things: about my life, about others' lives, about the entire world. I now yearn to go back, to go somewhere else, to experience more, to understand more.
How do I explain that I now have a different purpose? A purpose that doesn't include reality television and office politics. A purpose that … well, I'm not even sure what it actually is. My trip was so much more than a walk up a big mountain and a sail down a big river. It was a truly life-changing adventure, but my slideshow of photos just doesn't show it.
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A recent Wall Street Journal report started this way:
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The Journal story noted a recent Fitch Ratings report that said the Northeastern gambling market "is reaching a saturation point.''
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Broadchurch: the American Remix Version
September 09, 2013, 02:55:14 PM »
I'll post my thoughts on the last four episodes, I've already posted my thoughts on the first four episodes on another board, and I don't like to repeat myself, of this limited British TV series, which is now playing in the U.S. on BBCAmerica.
And being the ignorant, not knowing any better, and arrogant, thinking I can do better, s.o.b. that I am, I'll post a barebones outline: victim, murder, suspects, murderer of how I'd like to see the American version play out.
And then, four things that can be done to make the American version better than the British version, which unlike most British TV, is overrated. For reasons, which I cannot yet grasp.
And concluding remarks at the end.
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September 10, 2013, 06:27:49 PM »
Just having seen season 1, episode 5, this is what I found interesting about the episode.
The Reconstruction
A good idea, but like alot of the show, overly dramatic, and I question how realistic the reconstruction was.
The male detective
"He [Tom] did right by Danny." There is an ironic statement if I ever heard one.
The dog lady
Not knowing who Tom is, when his face has most probably been splashed all over the news and the papers. But, we know her for a liar. And how do we know she is lieing? Her lips move.
Neither here nor there, but there are apparently only two minorities in the whole town: the Soco guy and the dopey boyfriend. Thus, it'll be interesting to see how many minorities are shown in the American re-make.
More male nudity than female nudity so far.
The police
When the lynch mob shows up at the suspect's door, where are the police? Of course, the town press has shown it's more competent then the police. Finding out things about the suspect's past, that the police apparently don't know.
"Nothing would have been amiss." WTF! Where do they get these people. Here is man, a music teacher, who is having an affair with one of his female pupils, who is less than half his age. And I don't know about then, but now, even if the girl was 16, he would still be breaking the law, as a teacher cannot have an affiar with a pupil, till the pupil is 18.
The suspect is a pedophile. Just barely. A pedophile has a primary sexual interest in children who are 11 and under, while a hebephile has a primary sexual interest in children 11 to 14, and a ephebophile has a primary sexual interest in children 15 to 19.
Actually, the suspect is a bad candidate for the murder. His previous interest was in a girl, the murder victim was a boy. The girl was 15 almost 16. The murder victim was 11.
And the suspect is more athletic then he looks. As his clothes do not appear to be wet, it looks like he committed suicide by leaping off the cliff, and farther than someone would normally be able to leap.
Next time: Season 1, Episode 6
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September 12, 2013, 05:27:17 PM »
One of the most interesting character interactions has become that between the parents of the victim - the older sister of the victim -- sister's dopey boyfriend.
He has never been invited, so far, to any function at the family home, nor have they invited him to attend church with 'em.
Nor have they ever said "You're not to see him again!"
Good parenting? Not. Just incompetent parenting, but why am I surprised. So many of the characters in this series are inadvertently shown to be incompetent. The parents have, apparently, as there has been no mention of it, ever talked with their daughter about safe sex, even though they know she and her boyfriend are having sex. As I said, incompetent parenting.
Their incompetent parenting might be due to the fact that they had the girl so early, when both were still in their teens, or maybe it is because they remind the parents of themselves at that age.
One wonders if one cannot extrapolate the idea that the dead boy was the favorite, and this began before his murder, of the parents. Naybe because he was . . .
(a) the boy in the family
(b) the younger of the two children
(c) some other reason.
Which means the sister's reaction to her brother's murder, which is shown in the series, maybe the wrong reaction. More like "I'm glad he's gone!" And then, of course, the guilt reaction to her reaction sets in.
One wonders, while it has not been shown, whether there is a streak of racism running through one or both parents, as the boyfriend is black and the family is white.
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September 17, 2013, 06:59:26 PM »
Season 1, Episode 6
Finally, after 5 episodes of everyone doing something wrong, an episode where everyone appears to be doing something right.
No sirens, but lights flashing, when pursuing suspect.
Solicitor present at questioning of suspect.
How long ago was the murder? But some police do say that if a murder is not caught after 3 days after the murder, the chance of catching the murderer declines each day thereafter. So the budget cuts make some sense.
Some people have criticized Tom's father for interrupting the male police detective, when he was talking to Tom, but the father was right, and the male police detective was wrong. The male police detective should not have been talking to Tom without another adult being present.
Dean finally shows up to offer comfort to girlfriend Chloe Miller.
The Miller family has a funday at the local arcade.
Still there are questions raised, which we'll get to next time.
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September 17, 2013, 07:11:48 PM »
Questions raised.
Does anybody know British police procedure? If a murder has occured, and the murderer still has not been caught over a month later, would the police still continue to hold the victim's body?
Where did they bury the suicide? It's not that long ago, less then 130 years, that they wouldn't bury a suicide in the churchyard, but outside the churchyard.
So those are the sea scouts. Why haven't they been questioned earlier about anyone getting "funny" with any of them? There's no word that the police have questioned any of them about this.
Where is the landlady's fear that she'll lose her license for being in possession of cocaine?
(a) The hearing hasn't been held yet. Though, it''s been over a month.
(b) The hearing has been held, but the authorities decided on some other penalty.
(c) The show's writers have forgotten about the whole thing.
Why was Mark able to get his job back as a plumber, after being away so long? Didn't he own his own company?
Now for the bizarre parts of the episode
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September 17, 2013, 07:18:32 PM »
The bizarre bits. Most of which seem to relate to Susan.
That seems to be an odd way to get the victim's skateboard into the hands of the police.
"This is near where the boy died." That's a bizarre thing to say. Either . . .
(a) She's just making conversation.
(b) Or, she knows more about the murder then she lets on.
In a town so small, that everyone supposedly knows everyone else. It is bizarre that she seemingly does not recognize Tom Miller. Though, he has been put up as a friend of the victim.
Finally, this comes across as the most sensible episode yet. Too bad that the previous 5 episodes don't come as being as sensible.
Next time: Season 1, episode 7. With one more episode after that.
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September 24, 2013, 06:21:19 PM »
Season 1, Episode 7
Not the worst episode so far, but not the best, as the characters do not come across as credible as the last episode.
Was the female police detective wearing protective booties when she entered the crime scene? She should have been wearing booties.
They had the male police detective interview the male suspect, and the female police dtective interview the female suspect, as before, but I wonder if it had not been better to throw a twist into the interviews and have the male police detective interview the female suspect, and the female police detective interview the male suspect.
The mother and son reunion. That was a nice twist in the story.
On the previous case, they still could have gone to trial even with only circumstantial evidence whatever that evidence was. That would not be the first nor likely the last trial to go to trial only on circumstantial evidence.
I would feel better about the series, if the police did not come across as being so incompetent. In books, in films, on TV shows, I have seen American, British, Canadian, Irish, Israeli, and Scandinavian police forces in action, but I have not come across one that comes across as so incompetent, since "Plan 9 from Outer Space," as this one.
To be continued . . .
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September 24, 2013, 06:38:13 PM »
Continuing . . .
Seemingly, only now, two months later, are they downloading information off of the victim's computer. Something they should have been doing, shortly after the murder occured.
The police might not like the press, but they should be smart enough to know that it is a bad idea to completely alienate the press. Which does not seem to have sunk in in this series.
It is not only what they do or do not do, it is also what they say.
"They [the suspect] will make more mistakes." As if this was the first mistake the murderer has made since the murder, when the whole cover-up of the murder was one mistake after another. Which mistakes we'll get to later.
They talk as if they have, after two months, not eliminated any of the suspects. Those suspects with no alibi or a shaky alibi the night of the murder.
From the psychic: "Someone near to him [the victim.] Close to home." Well, that was useful information for the police. I could have told them that, and I'm not psychic.
They do sometimes get things right. When they find that the male police detective has heart problems, which affect the case, his superior tells him that he has to see the police doctor, and if the doctor does not give him a clean bill of health, he is off the case.
And then they do get it wrong. His superior could have temporaritly suspended him, till he saw the doctor, which she fails to do.
And as an afterthought, I have also seen the French, Italian, and Russian police forces in action in novels, and they all come across as being more competent then the one in this series.
Next time: the 8th and final episode and more comments on the series.
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October 03, 2013, 07:26:18 PM »
Season 1, episode 8
Well, after 8 weeks, it's over.
It's interesting to me. That of the two boys, Tom had the messiest room and Danny had the neatest room. A personality trait that made one the victim and one not.
The victim's father talking about his dead son's room: "I don't want to clear the room." Ye-es. Finally, someone said something intelligent. As in real life, parents who have had a child disappear or be killed, often leave the child's room as it was, as it is their way of coping with the child's disappearance or death.
But, for every intelligent thing said, there are two stupid things said.
The female police detective: "I'm worry about another child being hurt." It's been two months, and only now you bring up the fact that you are worried that another child might be hurt. WTF!
The male police detective to a suspect he is questioning: "Did you kill Danny?" WTF! He's only known for two months that the person he is questioning could not be the killer, because the person he is questioning has hands to small to strangle the victim.
With a good writer, the reality trumps the drama, so the drama is changed to fit the reality. With a bad writer, the drama trumps the reality, so the reality is changed to fit the drama.
The male police detective walks into a situation, where he may have to arrest a suspect. A suspect that he knows has already killed once and may kill again. And he walks into the situation without back-up. Maybe dramatic . . . ? But realistic . . . ?
One guess as to the writer who wrote this is a good writer or a bad writer.
Well, that explains that.
Why the victim's hand was bleeding.
Who cleaned up the murder scene. It was not the cleaning lady, but the killer.
What the British call a rowboat is not what we Americans call a rowboat. I have been out in rowboats with my grandfather and my aunts' husbands, and those rowboats looks nothing like the boat in the TV series.
If there was ever a time that the saying "Trying to kill gnats with an elephant gun" is applicable. It's for this episode.
The writer's appeal to the emotional tragedy in this episode is so overplayed, that I can't take any of it seriously. In fact it is . . .
(a) a turnoff
(b) almost unwatchable
(c) unbelievable
(d) ridiculous
(e) all of the above
It would be a much better episode, if the appeals had been underplayed instead of being overplayed.
And even with all that, the writer had to throw in a scene that verges on the ridiculous, when the victim's father confronts the victim's killer, when the killer is finally confined into a jail cell. No competent police force would let a relative of the victim near the killer under the circumstances seen in the episode for the fear that the killer may come to some harm at the hands of the relative. But, this is not the first time that the police force represented comes across as something less than competent.
I think part of the problem with the episode and the whole series is that they try to make the pedophile killer sympathetic. Understandable as to the why. Yes! But sympathetic? It never works.
A good idea for a series that is badly executed.
And that is all for the specific comments for each episode, but the next time I come around, and each time after, I'll have some general comments on the series.
Till then . . . ?
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Re: Broadchurch: the American Remix Version
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October 14, 2013, 05:09:07 PM »
A good opening in episode 1. Good, solid writing in episode 6. And a good, surprising twist in episode 7, does not make make up for the following written series of acts, which more accurately reflects the typical writing of the whole series.
(1) He remembers to cover his feet in plastic to avoid leaving a trace, but fails to wrap the victim's body nor the victim's skateboard, thus leaving traces of the victim and his skateboard in the truck and later in the boat.
(2) He just happens to have a handy boltcutter availabe, so the chain attaching the outboard motor to the boat, can be cut.
(3) Turns boat over singlehandly. Throws back out. I'm making this up, but in real life it'd be possible.
(4) Drags boat across beach to ocean. Again singlehandly. Gets hernia. Again, I'm making this us, but in real life, again it'd be possible.
Murderer now has a bad back and a hernia.
(5) Makes preparations not to be detected, such as cleaning murder scene, but then does things to make sure he is detected, such as leaving the victim's body out in plain sight. Not even trying to make it look like suicide.
(6) Instead of getting rid of dead victim quickly, proloning the time that dead victim is in his proximity. Thus, increasing the risk of discovery.
(7) Instead of returning boat, when done, to where it was taken from, takes boat into harbor, where it might be seen and recognized.
(8) Then removes boat from harbor and burns it. Bringing attention to boat.
And isn't it odd that they were able to find traces of the victim and the skateobard in the little area of the boat that was not burnt?
This has been called amateurish, but it does not even rise to that level, as this whole series of acts is illogical, unbelievable, and unrealistic. And thus uninvolving, but involving writing that is both shoddy and poor.
Next time: Something similiar, but with much better writing.
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Re: Broadchurch: the American Remix Version
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October 24, 2013, 05:21:29 PM »
Why do we overrate something?
Since some of us have a tendency to ignore anything that is bad in something we like. Of course, the opposite is true, if some of us dislike something, we ignore anything that is good.
We may think something, here "Broadchurch," is the best we have ever see, if we are ignorant of something out there, that is better. And a good example would be something I came across, when I was watching "Broadchurch," which had a surprising number of similiarities to "Broadchurch."
A dead child
Town terrorized and traumatized
Strangulation murder
Accidental death
Sexual motive for murder
Murderer's panic
Attempted cover-up
A child as suspect
Younger brother of suspect
Parent(s) of suspect also suspected
Abuse within family of suspect or victim
Victim's cellphone as solution to murder
Murderer's confession
Funeral for victim (And there may be reasons to wait to the end of the TV series to show funeral, but the scene actually works better as drama in the middle of story, as in "Bitter River," than at the end as in "Broadchurch.")
Julia Keller's
Bitter River
the 2nd in a book series about a crusading female D.A. in the hills of West Virginia
Next time: the one major difference between the book and the TV series. The book is far better written.
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October 29, 2013, 06:27:34 PM »
As I said previously, there's not one aspect of "Bitter River" that's not better written than "Broadchurch." Of course, some of those aspects are my personal preference, and your preferences may differ, but . . .
bc = Broadchurch
br = Bitter River
br: understandable realism
bc: unrealistic sympathy
"Broadchurch" makes the same mistake that "Happiness" made. One cannot make that type of villain sympathetic without twisting the truth so far out of shape that it's unrecognizable as the truth. (And we'll talk about him next time.)
bc: blank slate
br: blanks filled in somewhat
The victim is such a blank slate that one has less empathy for him than one should. (And we'll talk about him later.)
bc: 15,000. Too large for the story that it wants to tell.
br: unknown, but less than 15,000 and the right size to tell the story.
br: 4 or 5.
bc: 7 or 8 or too many to tell a good story.
Story telling
br: direct
bc: wandering
bc: too busy for its own good
br: simpler and better
br: competent
bc: incompetent
And it is not as if they are written as being incompetent, but as competent, but they come across as being incompetent, which is the first time I have seen that. And I seldom have seen a more incompetent group of police, and I have seen law enforcers in ancient Greece, China, Egypt, Japan, Rome, South Africa, etc. etc. (And we'll talk more about 'em later.)
Murder scene
bc: poorly staged
br: unknown
bc: weak for the most part
br: stronger
Grief (Group)
br: personal
bc: impersonal
Grief (Individual)
br: quieter. right time.
bc: too loud. too late.
I am not talking about the mother's grief at the death of her son in the first episode. That is one of the few times I've seen grief done right. I am talking about the father's grief, which comes in the last episode, where it is less believable, and comes not when he first hears about the death of his son, like the mother, but after he confronts the murderer, which is itself unbelievable.
bc: less
br: more
Which gives more motivation to the characters and less plotholes in the story.
Emotional resonance
bc: less
br: more
Especially when the heroine's older sister, who she has not seen in years, shows up unexpectedly at her door at the end of the book.
bc: poorly placed
br: better placed
bc: little or no understanding of characters. (And we'll talk about 'em more later.)
br: understands all characters.
Which includes . . .
physically challenged-other
mentally challenged-other
br: believable story
bc: unbelievable story to some extent
Behavior change
br: 3 or 4
bc: 1 or 2, if that many.
They come. They go. They live. They die. But their behavior never changes during the entire series. They are the same at the end as they are at the beginning.
And finally characters again
br: interesting.
bc: uninteresting
They could have been, they should have been, they would have been interesting, if they were not so poorly written.
Next time: the villain
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November 06, 2013, 04:34:14 PM »
Whle there is some confusion, due to poor writing, as to whether the villain is a pedophile or not. If he is suppose to be a pedophile, then what we have is an ubelievable and unrealistic portrait of a pedophile, as he does everything that a pedophile would not do, and nothing that a pedophile would do.
bc: Broadchurch
rp: real pedophile
1. bc: does not show any indication by word or deed that he has an interest in pre-teen boys, except for one supposed instance at the skatepark.
rp: shows by word and/or deed that he has an interest in pre-teen boys.
2. bc: chooses victim from 2-parent household.
rp: would most likely chose victim from 1-parent household.
3. bc: picks wrong victim.
rp: picks right victim.
Out of a school class of 30, they say that within 5 minutes, they can pick out the most vulnerable victim.
4. bc: panics and kills victim, but see #3, #5, and #14.
rp: panics and kills victim.
The one thing, besides the victim's age of 11, that the series got right, when it comes to pedophiles.
5. bc: uses violence.
rp: because rapists use violence, and pedophiles think they are superior to rapists, they seldom use violence.
6. bc: does not use his son, victim's best friend, as effectively as he might.
rp: "Hi! My son Tom and I are are going camping this weekend. Would his best friend Danny like to come along?"
7. bc: does not use drugs, liqour, porn, etc. to subvert victim.
rp: would use drugs, liqour, porn, etc. to subvert victim.
8. bc: not seen showering or bathing with victim.
rp: seen showering or bathing with victim.
9. bc: uses money.
rp: uses out of town sporting events. ("Hi! Tom and I are going to Cardiff to watch the Wales National Rugby Union or the Wales National Football Team. Would Danny like to come?")
10. bc: uses too much money. Over $800.00 in American.
rp: would peel off $10.00 or $20.00 or its equivalent in British pound sterling off of a roll of money.
11. bc: does not use the right expensive gift.
rp: would use the right expensive gift. ("Hi! I bought this skateboard for my son Tom, but his grandmother/aunt/cousin already bought him the same one. Would Danny like it?")
12. bc: but he does use the wrong expensive gift. ("Who bought you that expensive smartphone?"-- "Tom's father.")
Which should have brought suspicion down on Tom's father, when the victim was found dead.
13. bc: all seems to have happened almost overnight.
rp: would work weeks even months to subvert victim.
14. bc: after killing victim, does not strip victim of clothes and shoes.
rp: strips victim of clothes and shoes then wraps nude victim in plastic and buries body in the sand, or just drops naked victim on the beach somewhere.
15. bc: does not move on to next victim.
rp: would move on to the next victim.
16. bc: turns himself into the police.
rp: turned in by one of his victims or caught with something like kiddie porn.
17. bc: denies that he is a pedophile and that he hurt victim.
rp: would admit to being a pedophile, but would deny that he hurt victim or did anything wrong with victim.
And an 18th reason.
bc: Victim was not taken by surprise nor had his head smashed into the wall or floor, thus would have instinctively fought back, clawing at the murderer's hands around the throat, but, afterwards, there are no claw marks on the murderer's hands or arms.
And thus, after all is said and done, everything listed under rp or real pedophile is something at least one real convicted pedophile has said and/or done.
Next time: I was going to go with the young victim, but I shall put that off to later, as next time I want to talk about a novelization of the teleplay that is soon to be published.
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The novelization of the teleplay by Chris Chibnall.
Novelization by Chris Chibnall and Erin Kelly.
I know nothing about Ms. Kelly, but we will see if Mr. Chibnall is a better novelist or screenwriter, because in this case, as a screenwriter, frankly, he sucks.
We are promised we shall see . . .
01. More background on the characters.
02. More material not in the TV series.
What I'd like to see, and I'm unlikely to get everything I want, as it would be basically a total rewrite of the TV series, but maybe I can get some of what I want, which is . . .
03. A rewrite of the villain, so he is less confusing. Was he or was he not a pedophile? He cannot, as in the TV series, be both at the same time.
04. Also rewrite the villain to make him less sympathetic, which does not work, but more understandable, which does work.
05. His victim less of a blank slate. And a more empathic characters.
06. The police less incompetent. More competent.
07. The townspeople less stupid. More realistic and believable.
The Murder
08. One of the first things you see. Not one of the last.
09. Something anyone could have done. Not a strangulation.
10. A better motivation for the murder.
11. A more realistic and logical disposal of the body.
12. A less anti-climatic revealing of the murderer.
13. More and better clues as to who is the murderer.
14. A simpler murder. One that is not so "busy." (i.e. too much happening as in the series.)
15. A list of the suspects at the beginning of the investigation, then eliminate 'em one by one. Not keep adding to the list as the story continues.
16. Time it occurs shorter. From 2 months to 2 weeks. That should be enough time.
17. Town where it occurs smaller. 15,000 is too large for this story to work right. And here I may be wrong, as in the Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs, who I trust to know what she is saying, our heroine is in Yellowknife, Canada, which has a population of 20,000, and the authoress says that everyone in town know each other. So 15,000 may not be too large for everyone to know each other, but I'd still like to see a smaller town in which the story occurs.
18. Fewer storylines (such as the drug one) or some explanation as to why this storyline or others affect the story, and resolve it by the end. Do not leave this plothole and other plotholes open.
Next time: we'll talk about the young murder victim.
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Was the young victim gay?
I think he was gay, though we do not see any clues that he is gay, unless neatness is a strictly gay trait, but we do not see any clues that his murderer is a pedophile, but he is seemingly meant to be a pedophile.
What I have seen in children's deaths . . . I have seen 'em jump (suicide), die of a broken neck, heart failure, and premature aging, I have seen 'em die in an accident, and seen 'em burned in a fire, decapitated, drowned, hanged (again suicide), impaled, shot, stabbed, and strangled, as here, but I have seldom seen a death as mishandled and mismanaged as the one here. Thus, from the deaths with meaning in "The Adventures of Huck Finn," to "Doctor Zhivago," to "Intolerance," to "Lair of the White Worm," to "Zulu Dawn," to "2020 Texas Gladiators" and a score or more more to the meaningless one here . . . ? But, what does one expect from the writer, and what can one say?
That maybe the American remake will finally do it right and give the young victim a more meaningful death is more realistic, more logical, more involving, and more believable.
Or, more like the boy scout victim in "Lair of the White Worm." No one wants to be the victim in this one, except--perhaps--me, and that is because of the empathy I feel for this victim and this type of victim, but there are men who would want to be the young victim in "Lair of the White Worm," again including myself, as sex will ne'er get any better than that, ere we die.
The young victim in this deserves better.
Next time: Why the portrayal of the victim is so unrealistic and illogical to be unbelievable?
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Patriotic Fervor and the Truth About Iwo Jima
By Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhal
3-04-02: Fact & Fiction
Patriotic Fervor and the Truth About Iwo Jima
By Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhall
Ms. Marling is professor of art history and American studies at the University of Minnesota. Mr. Wetenhall is executive director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
Editor's Note: Because Iwo Jima has been in the news, we decided to republish this piece, which first appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1993.
IWO JIMA has a special place in our nations past. For many Americans it is a place where emotion merges with memory, where feeling and facts become one. It is a holy place in our civil religion, where emotions gather and linger--for generations. With our notes and books and claims of objectivity, we historians sometimes trespass--at our peril--upon this terrain where others have fought and died.
When we wrote about the commemoration of the World War II battle at Iwo Jima in Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero (Harvard University Press, 1991), we, as outside observers, became part of the process of remembering deeds of war. But quite unintentionally, we were dragged into a vortex of misremembering, as hearsay and emotion quickly subsumed the truth.
On February 23rd, 1945, the fifth day of the bloody battle of Iwo Jima, Marines were ordered to take Mount Suribachi, the besieged Japanese stronghold. A 40-man patrol ascended the volcanic slope, attained the summit, and hoisted "Old Glory" on a makeshift flagpole. That was at 10:35 a.m., precisely. Horns blew. Bells tolled. Cheers rang out from American positions below. "Mopping up" skirmishes followed, but, within an hour, the men of Easy Company had declared Suirbachi secure.
Early that afternoon, some combat photographers circumvented security outposts and climbed up to the restricted position. They arrived at the top just in time to witness, and photograph, an impromptu ceremony as the first, historic flag was exchanged for a larger one.
Within a week, the Associated Press spread AP photographer Joe Rosenthal's triumphant picture across front pages nationwide, accompanied by stirring headlines detailing the capture of Suribachi. The image captivated war-weary America and was rapturously compared with Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People," with Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware," even with Leonardo's "Last Supper."
In the course of the next few weeks, the story of the first flag merged with the photo of the second one. The original flag-raisers faded into anonymity while the country became obsessed with the identities of the faceless heroes in Rosenthal's picture. The aesthetic power of the photo seemed to demand a full and revised explanation of how it became to be taken. So history was rewritten--not by conspiracy, but through partial truths, omissions, overstatements, and poetic license. Before long, the gallant men in Rosenthal's photograph--by now a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph--came to be considered the original heroes.
Our book simply retold the facts of the battle and sorted out the confusion that followed. We traced the evolving myth of Iwo Jima from John Wayne's Sands of Iwo Jima, through the booze-soaked martyrdom of flag-raiser Ira Hayes (the hapless last figure in the Rosenthal photograph), to the oversized colossus of the Marine Corps Memorial near Washington. We ended with the somber memories of the men who fought the battle and their poignant reflections on the tragedy of war. Why did this matter? The truth was important to the men who were there, many of whom complained to us that their deeds had been revised for the sake of public relations. In a larger sense, it was values such as truth and justice for which World War II was fought, not half-truths and orchestrated sentiment.
Yes, we thought we had this story nailed: we would set the popular misconceptions straight once and for all. What we couldn't foresee was that our book would embroil us in a tragi-comical farce, all in the name of patriotism or outright nostalgia.
Shortly after publication, our account was blindsided by Richard Harwood, The Washington Post's ombudsman, in a review in that newspaper that expressed outrage that we had dared to broach the very subject of the first flag-raising. He accused us of criticizing Rosenthal's photo as "phony" and the men in it as "imposters." But we never wrote this. In fact, we went to considerable lengths to prove that the photo was legitimate, the men reluctant heroes who consistently said they had not dodged bullets to raise the flag, but had simply replaced one flag with another. Mr. Harwood assumed the true story somehow undermined the valor of those who participated (it did not), and he set us up as straw men for a conspiracy theory--that the deception was planned--that the book overtly disproves.
A few weeks later, The New York Times took the same tack under the headline: "Birth of an Icon, but an Illegitimate One." The review attributed to us--again falsely--allegations that the Iwo Jima icon was "illegitimate, a fraud, a dark hoax unworthy of the men who died in that battle."
The review in The Times touched off a barrage of letters to the editor. G. Greely Wells, the oft-proclaimed "man who carried the flag" to the foot of Suribachi, got three columns of space in The Times's op-ed page to rebut our book--space he used to recount, with pristine accuracy, facts that he might have read on our Page 42. (Mr. Wells hadn't read the book. We called him the day that his column appeared and offered to send him one. He replied that he had ordered one, but that it had not yet arrived.)
Undeterred, Mr. Wells took his crusade to National Public Radio, where Alex Chadwick of "Morning Edition" announced to the nation's breakfast tables that we had pronounced the Iwo Jima photo "staged propaganda." Had he bothered to read the book, he might have seen the photo and caption on Page 79 that asserts the "spontaneity" of Rosenthal's picture.
MORE ANGRY LETTERS followed in The Times, and other newspapers picked up the story--often assembling their opinions from misstatements contained in the Post and Times reviews. The best came from the West Coast: a column by William Endicott in The Sacramento Bee titled "Can an Icon Sue for Libel?" Mr. Endicott blasted us as leftist revisionists and tried to bury our account by invoking his venerable father: "My dad watched from a troop transport as the flag was hoisted, and he never forgot the sight for as long as he lived."
But the great moment that Endicott senior remembered was not the one in the Rosenthal photograph. That moment occurred, that flag was raised at 10:35 A.M. Photographed by Louis Lowery of Leatherneck magazine, it is a forgotten footnote in history.
Once begun, distortions spread by the news media are almost impossible to correct. The New York Times rejected no fewer than three rebuttal letters from us. Editors called us twice to negotiate what they might print: 100 words without reference to any error in the Times review. In the end, even though they had printed six columns of misdirected attacks inspired by their inaccurate review, the newspaper editors refused to publish anything from us.
Ironically, our experience demonstrates precisely how the process of patriotic myth-making works. It isn't a conspiracy; it isn't orchestrated. It is a series of assumptions, a few leaps of faith. A reviewer who's too busy, complacent, or lazy to read carefully and check the facts. An editor too pompous to concede that the "Fourth Estate" might have gotten something wrong. Over time, a story is crafted out of scraps and innuendo. This was the very process that had led to the convolution of the Iwo Jima story in the first place--the very web of half truths and hearsay that we had worked so hard to untangle.
IN THE END, though, we were the ones who were wrong. We underestimated the patriotic fervor that we had so carefully chronicled. It is an overwhelming reverence for the heroic feeling of the Iwo Jima myth that still renders the facts of its birth--to some people, at least--irrelevant. Americans want desperately for the real-life story of the heroes of Mount Suribachi to turn out like the Duke's heart-rending martyrdom in Sands of Iwo Jima, when his last vision was the raising of Old Glory amidst a shower of enemy fire. The famous War Bond poster--"Now All Together"--made Rosenthal's image look so real that it had to be true. And the Marine Corps Memorial stands proudly as the last great vestige of monumental realism in American sculpture--big, commanding, more real that reality. In the noble cause of celebrating our nation's reverence for truth and justice, Americans prefer to let reality slip by, to ignore inconvenient facts.
But Americans' yearning goes deeper than a willingness to believe Hollywood formula and fantasy. It involves the preservation of a passionate faith in the hero, a belief in the individual's ability to change the course of history (the valor of Delacroix's flag-waving "Liberty" and the resolve of Leutze's "Washington"), a faith now so distressingly contradicted by the 58,180 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
We discovered an unusual phenomenon in the course of our research: the fake flag-raisers, people who insisted they had been in Rosenthal's picture and had helped hoist the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima. There were, and are, a lot of them.
Some Iwo vet, probably a fine Marine, spins a few Pacific yarns in a local tavern. Over the course of years, his story takes him from the D-Day landing, to the base of Suribachi, and on up its sulfurous slopes, until one unfortunate evening, he tells how he grabbed a length of metal pipe and helped his buddies hoist Old Glory in the Pacific breeze. Before he knows it, somebody at the next table tips off a reporter. An interview. A picture. A story in the hometown newspaper. Then the wire services. Another hero. And for the rest of his life, this unlucky hero will have to go on spinning his yarn to sustain his newfound glory.
And so what difference is there between getting caught up in a good story and creating a national myth?
Hardly any.
This piece first ran in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 1993, and is reprinted with permission.
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