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Gentlemen’s Disagreement
Standing up for Gregory Peck (against Ben Stein). Also: Incremental politics. Rumsfeld liberated. Hospital cleanup. A military dad’s thoughts. Plus much more.
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What are you talking about? I didn’t make any mean comments about
your father. I said he
played
a man risking his life for
civil rights in a movie. I don’t think you can question that, can
you?
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Was he really Atticus Finch? Did he really face a lynch mob? Did he really shoot a rabid dog with open sights at a great distance?
I have no doubt that your father was a fine man. I had the honor of meeting him at Norman Lear’s house. I am a huge admirer of his talent and civic achievements. With the greatest possible respect, all of the achievements you list of his do not make him into a freedom worker in the deep South.
Calm down. No one is attacking your father.
P.S. Now that I think about it, it was Scout who faced down the lynch mob in TKAM.
But, again, my comments were not in the slightest denigrating to your father, a genuinely fine man and great talent. And Gentleman’s Agreement was a fabulously powerful movie.
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