Word: revisionists
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Agnew's death was truly mourned only by a few stalwart friends and defenders. William Safire, one of his former speechwriters, in a desperate revisionist effort even sought to excuse one of Agnew's racist comments ("What's the matter with that fat Jap?", directed towards a dozing Japanese-American journalist). Agnew's onetime campaign press secretary, Victor Gold, declared in what must have been a fit of hysteria that "Spiro Agnew was the John the Baptist for [the Reagan] revolution...
...Will and William Safire. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Ronald Reagan, is "like a spiritual mother" to Netanyahu, says an official at a leading American-Jewish organization. Netanyahu's views on foreign policy were formed by his father, who expounded the muscular Revisionist school of Zionism, but associates say American right-wingers reinforced these opinions. A former Likud official recalls that Netanyahu was much impressed by Ronald Reagan's approach to the Soviet Union, and an Israeli official sees a continuum of influence from Netanyahu's father through Kirkpatrick and others...
...father Benzion is a historian whose lifework, a study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently at 1 a.m. to say he insisted on vetting them. Over the phone...
Many white Southerners still deny the insidious nature of the St. Andrew's Cross, the rebel flag. A Southerner once tried to convince me that this flag represented "heritage, not hate," but the rebel flag undoubtedly stands for a "heritage of hate." Despite vain attempts by revisionist so-called scholars to color the Civil War as a primarily economic conflict, slavery was the primary cause of the war. Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government...
Hill's largest invention, one entirely in keeping with his apparent determination to make the most radically revisionist western ever, is a backstory shared by Wild Bill and Jack McCall (David Arquette), who history teaches us brought the gunman's career to an end by shooting him in the back. Seems that the former loved and rather crassly left a decent woman named Susannah Moore (the lovely Diane Lane). Seems McCall is her child by a previous liaison. Seems Hill has seen too many movies in which young western gunmen are anachronistically portrayed as if they were modern juvenile delinquents...