Anne Bancroft: The Graduate (1967)

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Ederik Schneider

Anne Bancroft_ The Graduate (1967) (1)Source:Elle– Hollywood Goddess Anne Bancroft, as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967)

Source: The New Democrat 

“The TV and movie characters whose closets we want to raid.”

From Elle

“We’ve selected the most iconic scenes from Mike Nichols’ The Graduate starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft – including THAT Mrs. Robinson scene.

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards and Winner for Best Directing, this groundbreaking film classic launched the career of two-time Oscar Winner Dustin Hoffman. During a party given by his parents to celebrate his graduation, Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) is seduced by the sexy Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of his father’s business partner and closes friends. Although Benjamin is shy and inexperienced, they have an affair. But then, when Benjamin falls in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine (Katharine Ross), a jealous and angry Mrs. Robinson does everything in her power to keep the young couple apart.”

Anne Bancroft_ The Graduate (1967)Source:Studio Canal UK– Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft in The Graduate (1967)

From Studio Canal UK

I believe the best way for me to describe Mrs. Robinson (played by Hollywood Goddess Anne Bancroft) is that she plays a very lonely and unhappy woman stuck in a loveless marriage, or a marriage that just doesn’t have any spark, but where the couple doesn’t even sleep with each other anymore and doesn’t socialize with each other anymore. And Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) comes along (so to speak) who is somewhat lost, lonely, bored, and comes off as very inexperienced when it comes to romance (Mrs. Robinson thinks he’s a virgin) and she sees him as an easy target and fling.

Mrs. Robinson, isn’t looking for a relationship with Ben, but perhaps what she would an innocent fling, a sexual partner to make her happy, especially when her husband is away. I guess she wants her husband’s financial security and doesn’t want to divorce him, but she wants Ben to make her happy emotionally and physically, to make her feel like an attractive woman again. And the first scene in this video is where she starts to try to seduce him, but Ben being like the little boy that he was gets scared and runs away.

The scene in the hotel bar is pretty much what I’m talking about here. Ben decides that he would like to get involved with Mrs. Robinson: not like he’s got a long line of woman, especially woman his age standing outside waiting to be with him and Mrs. Robinson is obviously a very attractive, beautiful, sexy woman, really cute with that sweet, sexy voice and face and decides to call her up from the hotel and to invite her to join him. She jumps at the opportunity like a dog would jump for food when you’re about to feed him or her and meets him at the hotel bar.

I didn’t realize how cute and beautiful Anne Bancroft was until I saw her in The Graduate ten years ago or so (thanks to TCM) and have now seen the movie probably 10 more times since and have it on DVD. She had a great face and voice especially when she’s smiling and has one of the best naughty, up to no good looks that I’ve ever seen, as well as smirks that I’ve ever seen. People have said that she was overrated in The Graduate and that Mrs. Robinson wasn’t as attractive and sexy as she was, but I don’t think those understand this movie that well and perhaps just don’t like Anne Bancroft to begin with.

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Spoof: ‘Reviving Old Time Celebrities – The Incredible Life Of Angie Dickinson’

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Derik Schneider
Reviving Old Time Celebrities - The Incredible Life Of Angie Dickinson

Source:Spoof– Hollywood Goddess Angie Dickinson.

“Reviving Old Time Celebrities – The Incredible Life Of Angie Dickinson

Thе ѕесrеt crush оf mаnу generations of mаlе mоviеgоеrѕ – Angiе Diсkinѕоn wаlkеd into Hollywood history having kiсkеd оff a 10-year аffаir with Frank Sinаtrа аѕ she рlауеd his wifе in thе original Oсеаn’ѕ Elеvеn and catching the еуе оf Burt Bасhаrасh in 1965, ѕhе hаd tо livе on with thе trаgеdу оf her dаughtеr’ѕ ѕtrugglе with Asperger’s ѕуndrоmе аnd erratic but mеmоrаblе саrееr.

Tоdау, wе’rе going tо lооk аt thе inсrеdiblе life оf the television ѕеriеѕ Pоliсе Wоmаn – Angiе Dickinson. But bеfоrе wе gеt intо thе vidео, dоn’t forget to ѕmаѕh thе rеd button tо ѕubѕсribе to the сhаnnеl аnd lеаvе a comment “I ѕubѕсribеd” аnd wе will bе sure tо personally rерlу tо уоur соmmеnt.”

From Spoof

If you want to know how good of an actress and entertainer Angie Dickinson is, I’m sure you do so I’m going to tell you: she was an honorary member of The Rat Pack, that famous Hollywood group of entertainers that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin put together in the 1950s, that was still performing in the 1960s.

The Rat Pack was an A-list of Hollywood entertainment group when you’re talking about The Chairman, Dino, Sammy Davis, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and perhaps others. As the saying in Hollywood goes: you don’t apply to be a member of their club, they ask you to join and Angie was part of their group.

But what Angie Dickinson will always be most remembered for was personally creating the Hollywood sexy and yet tough, but also adorable ass-kicking, female cop, as Detective Sergeant Pepper Anderson from NBC’s Police Woman in the mid and late 1970s.

Angie was the first female star as a police officer on TV. Well before Mariska Hargitay, Marge Helgenberger, and the other sexy female cops that we see all over TV today. Who don’t get coffee, aren’t writing tickets, don’t have desk jobs, but out in the field as detectives and in many cases are leading investigations. Angie is obviously great eye-candy (perhaps even if you’re gay and blind) but she’s a helluva an actress as well.

 

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Bite Sized History: Governor Nelson Rockefeller- Addresses The 1964 RNC

Posted on August 3, 2020 by FredSchneiderUS

Bite Sized History_ Governor Nelson Rockefeller- Addresses The 1964 RNCSource:Bite Sized History– I guess people that Governor Nelson Rockefeller would call extremists in the Republican Party, in 1964.

Source:The New Democrat

“Nelson Rockefeller denounces Republican “extremists” at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Nelson Rockefeller denounces Republican “extremists” at the 1964 Republican National Convention.”

From Bite Sized History

Just on a personal not first: if the Republican Party today was made up of Nelson Rockefeller and Dwight Eisenhower Progressive Republicans (yes, Progressive Republican is not an Oxymoron) and Barry Goldwater Conservative Libertarians, instead of the Christian-Protestant-Nationalist cult and all of their escaped mental patients that they got going on in what was once the Grand Ole Party, I could probably be a Republican today. I would probably be more liberal than they are on social issues and it might take a real socialist takeover of the Democratic Party for me to do that, but I could see me making that move.

As far as Nelson Rockefeller’s speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention: Barry Goldwater and his Conservative-Libertarians (they probably weren’t called Conservative-Libertarians back then) took over the Republican Party that year and nominated Senator Goldwater, instead of a Progressive Republican like a Nelson Rockefeller or a Governor George Romney from Michigan. The people that Governor Rockefeller was calling extremists in the Republican Party, were the Goldwater Conservatives: Constitutional-Conservative-Libertarians.

The Republican Party under President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, was essentially a Progressive Republican Party that believed in civil rights, equal rights and justice, public infrastructure, a public safety net for people who truly needed it to help the less-fortunate get on their feet, etc.

But the GOP also had a conservative-libertarian faction in it in the 1950s led by Senator Goldwater and others. By the 1960s, the Republican Party is out-of-power all together at the national level and Governor Rockefeller comes in and wants to take the Progressive Republican mantle from President Eisenhower and lead the Republicans back to power. But Goldwater and his Conservative-Libertarians obviously had other ideas.

There’s a follow up piece to this post on The New Democrat .

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Plato Shrugs: ‘Ideology Post Trump: Where Do We Go From Here?’

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Erik Schneider
IDEOLOGY POST TRUMP_ WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE_ - Google Search

Source:Plato Shrugs– I wish this was fake news.

“Ideological turmoil in America has reached unprecedented heights. With conservatives falling into the unfalsifiable throws of populism and Liberals fetishizing 1960 solutions to 2020 problems, both appear lost in moving through the 21st century. What comes after Trump for the populist? What comes after liberals fail yet again to implement a child’s imitation of the Great Society?”

You can read the rest at Plato Shrugs

“In an interview that aired July 19, “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked President Trump about the coronavirus, upcoming elections and civil unrest in the United States. Read more at:The Washington Post.”

Trump's Fox News interview, in 4 minutes

Source:The Washington Post– President Donald Trump’s Chris Wallace interview.

From The Washington Post

At severe risk of disagreeing with Plato Shrugs here: we’re not talking about what this person calls Liberals on the Left and Conservatives on the Right, when we’re talking about the current political situation in America under Donald Trump. What we have are the children (what some people call fringes) of both the Democratic Party and Republican Party now thinking that they not only belong at the adult table, but that they should own it.

In 2016 the children of the Republican Party thanks to Donald Trump, took over the Republican Party and basically run that party. Politicos that I call children are not very conservative at all: anyone who runs on blowing up the system and taking down the establishment, can’t be very conservative at all, especially being a Conservative means you believe in conserving. Not tearing up the status quo and starting from scratch.

What Christian-Nationalists have done in the Republican Party is to take it over. The Republican Party was once the Grand Ole Party that true Conservatives believe in conserving, a party that was built by Abraham Lincoln, a party of individual freedom, opportunity for all, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense that opposes all forms of authoritarianism, (not just Socialists and Communists) that was about personal responsibility, a party that was led by Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.

Today the Republican Party a party that doesn’t even believe in a republic and republicanism is now a party that says: “We don’t care about moral values, personal responsibility, integrity, honesty, character, and fiscal conservatism, just as long as he’s appointing the right judges, keeping our taxes down, and fighting our cultural war.” Which is the attitude that anywhere between 80-90% of the Republican Party now has about their dear leader Donald J. Trump.

I mean anyone can call themself anything that they want: someone could call themself a Martian or a giraffe, but if that person look humanoid and doesn’t own a spaceship, speaks perfect English, why would you take that person seriously, especially if you’re intelligent, sane, and sober, and know that there’s no such thing as Martians.

Unless someone’s neck is about 4 feet long and that have hair all over the body and they speak a human language, why would you take the person who calls themself a giraffe seriously.

It’s the same thing with being a Conservative: if you’re going to be a Conservative, you have to believe in conserving. And in a political sense that means conserving values like honesty, integrity, strong character, fiscal responsibility, limited government, the U.S. Constitution, individual freedom, all conservative values that Donald Trump and his supporters don’t believe in.

As far as the Democratic Party: they have their children or adult day care center (what the mainstream media would call a fringe or the Far-Left) people who belong in the Green Party, and in some cases should be members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the far fringe of this movement should even be members of Communist Party USA. (Or be committed to the nearest mental institutions)

Some of the most illiberal (not liberal) and regressive (not progressive) people in America are people who call themselves Liberals and Progressives, because these folks don’t believe in liberal and progressive values like liberal democracy and even limited government, personal freedom and free speech, pluralism.

Political labels mean nothing if the people don’t believe in the values that their self-described political label is about. An illiberal person calling themself a Liberal, is like a doctor calling themself a lawyer, even though they don’t have a law degree. To be a Conservative, you have to believe in conservative values, like the values that I mentioned before. Otherwise you’re just someone who calls yourself a Conservative.

As far as where America goes post-Donald Trump, which I like perhaps hundreds of millions of other Americans hope is just months way: lets says Joe Biden wins, Democrats not only hold the House but add to their majority and they win back the Senate, giving a President Biden a united Democratic Congress. I believe the Republican Party will have a great opportunity there.

The GOP establishment can come back from their four year vacation and retake the Republican Party and argue that Trumpism has failed both politically and governmentally and it’s time for the Republican Party to come back to life and return to the part of Reagan, Goldwater, and Eisenhower. A party of Conservative-Libertarians and Progressive Republicans (yes, Progressive Republicans) that has to hold Joe Biden and the Democratic Party and accountable and prevent a socialist takeover of America. Joe Biden, is obviously not a Socialist, but his Far-Left will be even moral vocal in his presidency.

But what I think will happen instead is similar to what happen when Barack Obama became President. And the Republican Party will be run by their Far-Right and perhaps try to pretend that Donald Trump was never even President, but hold onto to Trumpism with their dear lives and try to blame everything in the world on Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats and try to use that to win back the House or Senate, if not both chambers in 2022.

You can also see this post at FRS FreeState, on WordPress.

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Perfect Life: ’30 Vintage Ads That Would Be Banned Today’

Posted on July 31, 2020 by kireschneider
30 VINTAGE ADS THAT WOULD BE BANNED TODAY

Source:Perfect Life– Maybe she can wash her own hands as well. LOL

“Sometimes, vintage ads are cool to look at. They can provide us a window into what was popular during a time we didn’t experience, or what people were interested in purchasing before we were around to hit the stores.

Other times, vintage ads are confusing and slightly terrifying. This is one of those times.

The 30 advertisements below are some of the most bizarre, perplexing we’ve seen – and we’ve seen some bad ones before.Check out the creepfest below – #11 might show up in your nightmares tonight.”

From Perfect Life

I don’t have kids (knock on wood) but I could just imagine if one of my nieces or nephew were drinking 7 Up, or some type of cola when they were 7-8 years old or even younger and how much of a nightmare they would be on that much sugar and caffeine. We’re talking about kids who would break down over the smallest things back then, like getting one less cookie than their brother or sister.

And a lot of these other commercials look like commercials from The Onion: “Is your baby really hyper and causing you a lot of stress? If so, give them a smoke and that will really calm them down.” I understand that businesses need to make money,  but how about truth in advertising and even common decency when it comes to your advertising.

As far as the ads dealing with male-female relationships: the 1950s and before that is not even the 21st Century, but the midpoint of the 20th Century. So obviously their standards for American cultural standards are a lot different from what are’s are today.

Back then men were supposed to be dominant and women were supposed to be servants of their men. That’s just the way American life was back then and to try to hold the people back then accountable for what’s supposed to be acceptable and unacceptable today, doesn’t make any sense to me.

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Norman Mailer- ‘Crime & Punishment: Gary Gilmore’

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Rik Schneider

Firing Line With William F_ Buckley_ Norman Mailer- 'Crime & Punishment_ Gary Gilmore' Author #NormanMailer, talking to #WilliamFBuckley about his book #TheExecutionersSong, which is about convicted murderer #GaryGilmoreSource:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– Author Norman Mailer, talking about his book about convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, in 1979.

Source:The New Democrat

“Episode S0390, Recorded on October 11, 1979, Guest: Norman Mailer”

From Firing Line With William F. Buckley

This is about convicted serial murderer Gary Gilmore who was obviously guilty of multiple murders out in Utah in the mid 1970s. Gilmore, not only admitted to his murders, but wanted to take responsibility for all of them by paying the ultimate price for them with his life and getting the death penalty for them.

Most convicted murderers who are facing the death penalty fight to the very end and even if they admit to their murders, they at least try to get their death sentence overturned and get life in prison instead. But Gary Gilmore perhaps similar to a cancer patient who perhaps knows they can be alive indefinitely, but will be in pain the rest of their lives, or at least under heavy medication for the rest of their lives, to relieve the pain and be able to stay alive and decide that its not worth it to them and decide to end their own life through physician assisted suicide, Gilmore knew he was a murderer and believed his life wasn’t worth saving or preserving and fought to get the death penalty.

Gilmore, was sentenced to death for the two murders that he committed and instead of appealing his death sentence, he instead decided that he would just accept and be put to death. And anti-death penalty groups in the mid 1970s fought to get his death sentence overturned and his case gets to the Supreme Court where they decided that would be put to death. And I guess Gilmore in a sense and won that case even though the prize was the death penalty, but that’s exactly what he wanted to begin with.

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Tom Woods: ‘Leftists Are The Source of Everything Good?’

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Ederik Schneider
Ep_ 1699 Left-Liberals Are the Source of Everything Good_

Source:Tom Woods– from the Tom Woods radio show.

“A chart comparing conservatives and liberals appeared in a California high school class, and it seemed like a good jumping-off point for an episode. You’ll never guess: conservatives are caricatured, and liberals are presented as the obviously decent choice everyone must embrace.”

From Tom Woods

To sort of speak to what Tom Woods was saying here, but to not to use his words, I’ll get into the stereotypes of what a Liberal is supposed to be, which are courtesy of American pop culture, the so-called mainstream media, as well as trapped in the closet leftists (if not Socialists) who hide behind liberal and progressive (even though they tend to be illiberal and regressive) their actual politics and political labels. Like a child would hide in the closet after he (or she) spilled the milk and juice and didn’t want their parents to get on them about it.

I’m going to do this for multiple reasons: one, this is a classical liberal (if you prefer over liberal) blog that’s about Liberals and liberalism in their real form and not what closeted Socialists and hyper-partisan right-wingers and the so-called mainstream media is supposed to believe that liberalism is about.

And two, political education and politics is America tends to be very ignorant anyway and Americans tend to get the idea that Liberals are hippies who think they know what’s best for everyone else and that individual freedom is simply too dangerous to allow for everyone to have it. And that Conservatives are just a bunch a bigots across the board who hate modern America and non-Europeans and anyone who are not fundamentalist Protestants. And they supposedly hate women and gays as well.

There obviously people in America who tend to believe that Americans by enlarge are stupid and aren’t capable of managing their own lives and to get back to one of my original points about what liberalism is supposed to be, that they believe that they individual freedom (not just economic freedom) is simply too dangerous to allow for most Americans to have.

And there are obviously Americans who believe in left-wing identity politics who it’s not just average Americans who tend to be ignorant and aren’t capable of managing their own lives for themselves, but a specific group of average Americans who supposedly have these cultural and political characteristics.

People who didn’t grow up in the Northeast or West Coast, who didn’t go to college there and perhaps didn’t go to college at all. Who tend to be blue-collar, who tend to from small towns, perhaps not rural America, but hours from the nearest metro area or major city. Who also tend to be fundamentally religious.

But the people who share these views about average, blue-collar Americans in some cases are Liberals, but in most cases aren’t. Some of the most educated, wealthy, well off, biggest supporters of American capitalism and liberal democracy, and all of the individual freedom that comes from those systems, are faux leftists who claim that America basically sucks and has a racist, bigoted system and government.

People who everyday enjoy their lives and everything that’s great about America and everything that America has to offer. The term for faux leftist democrats is limousine liberal: people who are very wealthy, who live like Liberal Democrats, but talk like leftists who claim that America sucks and is the real evil empire in the world. These people I have no respect for, because they’re so full of shit and are fake as human beings can get and give real Liberals and liberalism a horrible name.

And then there are actually real Socialists who are proud of that political label and talk about how much they believe America needs a socialist (or social democratic) government. And that individualism and freedom are dangerous and perhaps even selfish, bigoted things and that you need a big government to reign in those things so that American can have real equality. These people (the Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein’s of the world) I can actually respect, not for what they believe, but because they’re honest about what they believe.

When you think of liberal, you should think about liberal democracy and all of the individual rights that come from it, like equal justice, equality of opportunity, equal protection, equal rights, etc.

When you think of socialist, you think about social democracy (the good child in the socialist movement) and communism. (The bad child in the socialist movement)

When you think about bullshit artists when you’re talking and wanting to learn about Liberals and liberalism, you think about limousine liberals. And the so-called Young Socialists of America who talk about how much they love socialism and hate capitalism, while they take advantage of single thing that capitalism and liberal democracy has too offer to finance their personal lifestyles.

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Big Education Ape: George McGovern For President (1972)

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Derik Schneider

Big Education Ape_ George McGovern- For President (1972) (1)Source:Big Education Ape– Senator George McGovern, running for President in 1972. Actor Warren Beatty in the background.

Source:The New Democrat

“George McGovern – a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

Nixonland: An unpopular war, an economy in the dumps, a President with low approval ratings, his opponent revitalizing his base: How did the democrats lose in 1972, and by a historic margin?”

From Big Education Ape

“NBC News’ Dasha Burns looks back at the 1972 presidential race between George McGovern and Richard Nixon and how it compares it to the liberal message of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign…

Big Education Ape_ George McGovern- For President (1972)Source:NBC News– Senator George McGovern, accepting the 1972 Democratic Party nomination for President.

From NBC News

If self-described Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, is even unelectable in the Democratic Party in 2020, where their young voters tell pollsters that they like socialism, imagine what it was like for Senator George McGovern (the Bernie Sanders of the 1970s) to run for President as a Democrat in 1972. In 1972 being called a Socialist or Communist in America, was like being called a rapist, or murderer, terrorist, etc. No mainstream politician in America and even fringe politicians in the Democratic Party, wanted anything to do with Socialist or Communist to describe their politics.

Except that Bernie is very honest about his politics, at least as far as how he self-describes himself. George, called himself a Liberal, meaning the pop culture and mainstream

media stereotypical version of a Liberal: the guy who doesn’t shave, doesn’t get hair cuts, has a government program and tax increase for every problem known to man, as well as problems that haven’t even been invented yet. Wears military fatigues, even though he claims to be anti-military. Wears Che Guevara t-shirts that have the peace symbol on them, (even though Che wasn’t a pacifist) claims communism is a good thing and that capitalism is racist, even though he does everything that he can to subsidize American capitalism with everything that he buys and the way he lives.

George McGovern, obviously wasn’t a hippie, but he was a proud and devout leftist (some would even say Socialist) whose version of what the American economy would look like is very similar to what Senator Bernie Sanders believes in today: American capitalist economy, with a strong regulatory state, as well as a welfare state that would be universal to provide the employee benefits that most Americans get from their employers today.

George McGovern, wasn’t a Liberal, at least in the political sense as someone who believed in liberal democracy and individual liberty. (Which is what liberal is actually about) George, believed in liberty, but he believed that it had to be supplemented by a large welfare state and tax system, so people didn’t become what he and Bernie would call too independent and wealthy, while others were struggling just to survive. Social Democrat or Democratic Socialist would be the best ways to describe both George McGovern’s and Bernie Sanders politics, which is why Bernie Sanders is called the George McGovern of his time.

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Danny White: Dallas Cowboys (1980-88)

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Erik Schneider

Getty Images_ Danny White- Dallas Cowboys (1)Source:Getty Images– Dallas Cowboys QB Danny White, against the Redskins in 1983.

Source:The New Democrat

“IRVING, TX – DECEMBER 11: Quarterback Danny White #11 of the Dallas Cowboys passing in a game against the Washington Redskins on December 11, l983 in Irving, Texas. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)”

From Getty Images

“Danny White career highlights. I do not own any of the audio or footage shown in this video.”

The New Democrat_ Danny White_ Dallas Cowboys (1980-88)Source:DC 4 Life– Dallas Cowboys QB Danny White, playing the Los Angeles Rams.

From DC 4 Life

When I was growing up in the 1980s the Redskins (I still say that) and the Dallas Cowboys was not just the premier rivalry in the NFL, but perhaps in all of professional sports. Maybe the Philadelphia 76ers-Boston Celtics, or Celtic-Los Angeles Lakers rivalries in the NBA were better, but the Redskins-Cowboys was right there with those rivalries.

The term hate when it comes to rivalries gets thrown around a lot in sports, but it’s not the same type of hate that would be between, racial, ethnic, religious, or even political factions. Sports hate is more about respect than anything else, that you hate your arch-rivals as much as you respect them. You hate and respect them so much that every time you play them, you don’t just want to beat them, but beat them. Beat them so badly that you and they remember how badly you beat them, because you know how good the other team is.

In the 1980s, the Redskins knew that the Cowboys were very good and the Cowboys knew that the Redskins were very good. Every time they played each other at least after Joe Gibbs arrived in Washington, it seemed like it was a battle for the NFC East and to get top position in the NFC as well so you would be in great position in the NFC Playoffs to get to the Super Bowl.

Cowboys QB Danny White, is a big reason why I hated the Cowboys so much back then when I was growing up, because he was so good. I mean every time the Redskins played the Cowboys, it seemed like White was hitting WR Tony Hill for a big play down the sidelines for a touchdown. Or hitting TE Doug Cosbie down the middle of the field for a big play. When White had time and protection, he was as good a QB in the NFL as there was back them. He was so accurate and had an excellent arm, as well as mobility.

In the 1980s the Dallas Cowboys under Tom Landry were no longer the premiere franchise in the NFC, let alone in the NFL. They no longer had their doomsday defense, their receivers, weren’t as good as they had been. Their DL wasn’t as dominant, and the secondary wasn’t as good either. And I believe Danny White took a lot of the blame from Tom Landry for the fall of the Cowboys. And even though White wasn’t as good as Roger Staubach, but no other QB was back then.

The Cowboys were still consistent winners in the 1980s, as well as Super Bowl contenders: 3 straight NFC Final appearances from 1980-82, 12-4 in 1983 and just win shy of winning the NFC East that year. Danny White, is not the reason for the decline or fall of the Dallas Cowboys under Tom Landry, but a big reason for why they remained one of the best franchises in the NFC, as well as NFL during the 1980s and he deserves more credit for that, because he was about as good as any other QB in the NFL back then when he was healthy and you gave him time to throw the ball.

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The Honest Broker: Franklin D. Roosevelt: ‘I Welcome Their Hatred’

Posted on July 27, 2020 by FredSchneiderUS
FDR_ I Welcome Their Hatred

Source:The Honest Broker– FDR, taking on Big Business in America.

“This was a liberal president without abused woman syndrome.”

From The Honest Broker

When President Franklin Roosevelt said: “I welcome their hatred.” he was referring to be big business in America, who before the 1930s, the Great Depression as FDR’s New Deal, pretty much had their way in America as far as how they ran their businesses.

And what FDR was saying to them, was no more. And now there are  going to be rules as far as how private businesses will be able to operate in America. And there are going to be set benefits for their employees. And a safety net (which is what the New Deal was) for people who fall through the cracks of the American private enterprise, capitalist system.

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