New York Times OP-ED Columnist Bob Herbert writes with such passion that I find myself reading through most of his Opinions thoroughly. Though I disagree with most. In reading his November 13th 2007 OP-ED titled ‘Righting Reagan’s Wrongs,’ one has to wonder, if not ask, who wronged Bob Herbert on life’s path? I question Bob Herbert’s passion as nothing more than maligned hatred directed towards humanity, from what I’ve read. After all, most of what he writes is related to poverty, racism, and inequality, subjects that affect us all. Yet his writing hurts mostly those for whom (In his mind) he’s saving, while chastising those who have wronged? Bob Herbert, I guess.
As with all too many writers from the Left coast, to the Left coast the idea President Reagan as in this OP-ED of Herbert’s, could be anything but genuine. Grates them into spinning a dead president’s record into one of racism and naivety. Herbert doesn’t write with passion. His passion is a facade for hatred, an expression he boasts being immune to, while chiding others like President Reagan. I’ve hyper linked Herbert’s OP-ED title to the original article, to get all Bob Herbert’s spin you’ll need to read. In a nutshell Herbert accuses 1980 Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan of racism. Claiming Reagan in his first official Campaign Tour Speech sided with white supremacist groups and good old’ boys in Mississippi at the Neshoba County Fair. Stating, “I believe in states rights.” Assuming from those words that Ronald Reagan was committing to the bias and bigoted old boy rules in place in 1980 Mississippi. What a load of DUCK Dung spin Herbert puts on that day in history.
Ronald Reagan had always been a defender of States’ Rights, relevant to the writing of the Constitution of the United States. There were no implications or hidden messages in Reagan’s words, he meant what he said. I’ll take my facts and match them against Herbert’s so-called passion against racism. Reagan didn’t imply he agreed with Mississippi’s bias old boy thinking. Herbert knows this, David Brooks of the New York Times addressed this subject in an OP-ED November 9th 2007 titled ‘History and Calumny.’ Yet the force of hate drives Herbert to writing such balderdash, and to what purpose I ask?
If only Bob Herbert would turn his hatred for humanity into true passion for humanity, what greatness would abound from his talents learned and achieved here, in the greatest nation on earth. “Don’t bite the hand of history Bob Herbert. Reach out and grab it, bringing it along, nurturing and feeding it”….I’m Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason. 112807
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