It’s a Martin Luther King-sized edition this week; also included are tips on how to dock with the International Space Station, honest politicians, and a review of ‘Hamilton for Jesus.’ All this and so much less on this week’s edition ff Right Angle: Backstage.
26 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage 05/23/23”
What was with LBJ cooling toward Dr. King when he found out about King’s womanizing? As if he had any reason to talk.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was about as political an animal as it is possible to be. If he ‘cooled’ towards Martin Luther King Jr. it was for political, not moral reasons. Johnson had no morality to speak of at all.
He didn’t even have enough morality to avoid the hypocrisy he was perpetrating on a daily basis, let alone any hypocrisy directed towards MLK Jr.
His morality was “What’s good for my political life is moral to me.”
Reviewing the history of LBJ as president, it is clear that JFK’s assassination was a major turning point in American politics.
JFK was still a leftist, but he was a pretty moderate one especially by today’s standards. Lowering tax rates among other things.
But LBJ and his great society plus his and McNamara’s “handling” of Vietnam; with JFK we don’t get the former and the latter would have been done better I think.
All true. Johnson was a real stinker whereas JFK and his supporters in the Democrat Party still had the goal of doing what they thought was best for America. Even though that goal may have been erroneously addressed.
Kennedy was a patriot, though a misguided one. Johnson wasn’t a patriot, he was a Johnsonian. Had Kennedy lived some of our problems would still have been with us but not the order of magnitude worse that Johnson bequeathed us.
Even though Johnson did not intend to run for his eligible second term, he could not help but be a political weasel and when he got the opportunity to implement his “great society” plans he did not hesitate.
He and McNamara fudged the details of the Gulf of Tonkin incident to bring America into a hot, shooting war. If not for them, South Viet Nam might still be a free, thriving nation to this day.
LBJ was an evil man and many of the problems we face today can be traced directly back to his political machinations.
I still think if his health had been better he would have run for the second term. I never knew what he had but he didn’t think he’d survive and he died in Jan 73, so he must have known something was really off.
I also don’t think he would have won, nobody liked him.
Jolene!
RE: Scott’s mention of Tim Scott – I think you can appear competent as well as honest. You don’t have to be all folksy to not be slick and lying.
I think politicians now might not want to have uncontrolled video of themselves on the the internet.
One other thing about Dolly I had read was the public look she has is also so that when she is out with family, no one will recognize her and her family is protected by her being anonymous.
Two things about Dolly: She has said that she will never be seen by anyone other than her immediate family not made up like she is. It’s what people have come to expect from her and she doesn’t want to let anyone down by not looking her best at all times. Also, her Imagination Library Foundation has sent out more than one billion books to underprivileged children around the world. Calling her a good person cuts it a little short.
Many years ago while on vacation we were contemplating a dinner theater type show. We ended up going to a rodeo themed one that had Dolly’s name attached. You got a discount for bringing a children’s book. That was the clincher for my wife who taught little ones to read for 30+ years.
They donated the books and it is amazing what she has done with very little fanfare.
Scott: “It’s about an eight hundred and forty six page book”. Nice approximation, Scott. No need to go for precision and get down to the exact word count.
Snark aside, I really enjoyed your retelling of details from that book, Scott. In particular the actual names of King, Kings father and Bull Connor. That and the hand managing King’s microphone in the famous speech. Learn several new things when Backstage is sizzling.
I am sure that they will rectify their error in the future. Are you going to seek a refund? ๐
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I don’t understand why you’re still using YouTube for this backstage episode. We now know you can do a private video on Rumble. So why not do it?
I have a better question. Why not mind your own business? Of which this is none.
It is my business. It was their clear desire to ween from YouTube that edged my decision to spend the money I can barely afford, to support these fine gentlemen. And FYI…I’m just asking a question…perhaps you should take your own advice…”๐๐๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐๐ช๐จ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ?”
And FYI, I’m just asking you a question, which is my prerogative the same as you. If you don’t want me addressing your puerility don’t post it in a public discussion forum. Because …
You can contact people at the enterprise privately by email if your desire were as you claim. You’re posting your nagging here in the comment section to show everyone how wonderful you think you, your lame suggestions and your supposedly virtuous rabid hatred of Alphabet Incorporated is.
The good of the enterprise called “Bill Whittle” and the confidence I have in the owners and operators of this enterprise is my concern.
That’s why this is my business. This is a commercial endeavor, economic and business realities impinge directly on decisions related to operation and longevity. I want this endeavor to succeed and success involves expansion both financially and in audience.
The ideas and philosophies expressed by these men are vital to the future of the United States of America. A country that unlike you I have served in multiple capacities and deem a higher priority than any other corporeal concern. Including who uses what platform to reach their target audience or for any other reason.
I have every confidence in them to do the right things and make the best choices for their enterprise.
Clearly you do not share that confidence and have the childish attitude that if you just whine long enough you’ll get your way. That’s what bratty, poorly reared children do, not grown men.
Oh, here we go again, a long diatribe on how wrong I am, by the arbiter of righteousness.
This is only a semi-public space. I paid to speak my mind, and I’m speaking to those whom I’m paying. You are free to interject your opinion of course, but I can ignore it, since you aren’t any of those to whom I am addressing. Also, you are unaware of the previous conversations I had with Scott about this.
If you knew half of what I know about Google/YouTube, you’d be just as motivated to break the company up. But instead of weening from them, they are making excuses because they still get more money from The Beast. But is it as much as $9.95 per month? Because that’s what I pay, and if they aren’t serious about weening, then I’m going to take my $9.95 somewhere else.
For the record, breathing pure oxygen is a bad thing for humans. It can actually poison you. I first learned this cough-cough years ago when I got my scuba card.
NASA originally planned to use an oxygen-helium mix in the capsules (they didn’t want to use oxygen-nitrogen because they were worried about the astronauts getting the bends if there was a rapid decompression), but leadership wouldn’t let them because it made the astronaut’s voices sound squeaky. So they went with an O2-N2 mixture.
It took the leftist media (BIRM) less than a couple of hours to call Tim Scott an Uncle Tom. Including the witches of The View. Joy (yea, I appeared in blackface, so what, I am Dem I can do whatever I want) Behar was particularly brazen in her condemnation and comparison of Scott to Clarence Thomas. As if that is a bad thing in Senator Scott’s mind.
… Or a bad thing in my mind. If I were Tim Scott I’d take that as the highest compliment. Judge Thomas is one hell of a man.
Working backwards from the end:
Scott – The audience for His Story is actually the same as for Hamilton. The people going to see Hamilton were not people who were already well versed in the story of the founding of our nation and of Hamilton’s role in it. They might have known some of the names, but they did not know the stories.
They went for the cool music and because of the casting of non-white actors and because he had previously done “In the Heights”. Certainly, almost none of the target audience had read Chernow’s biography of Hamilton, which was the source material for most of the play.
The real tragedy of the stage production of Hamilton, is that even though so many young people can “sing” all of the lyrics, they didn’t come away with a real appreciation for what the founders were doing and what they went through to do it.
So, yes. His Story is an attempt to bring the Gospel story to people who haven’t heard it and to bring it in a different way. Not all that dissimilar to Godspell from back in the early 70s.
Oddly enough, Hillary’s real name is Beelzebub.
That’s her last name. Her real first name is Moloch.
The one thing everybody agrees on is Dolly Parton not only sings well but is a force for good.
Before Bill mentioned about trying to avoid making docking look sexual I was thinking just the opposite that the male female arrangement is the perfect docking set up, it was designed by nature over eons. (My laptop twice change โdockingโ to a similar looking word with an โIโ in it )
Fred Thompson was the first to attempt a Presidential mosey.