On Mandela, and the coming revisionist history of the American right.

[maxomai]

I know the media won't do this, but for every bloviating politician who waxes poetic about what a great man Nelson Mandela was, I hope the news outlets do us a solid and remind us of what those same politicians were saying about Nelson Mandela in 1988, back when America's and Britain's conservative blowhards were calling him a Communist and a Terrorist out to destroy everything good and decent.

Or we can just go and look at what they're saying about Mandela right now (2).

If we're lucky, we might hear a few words from Rachel Maddow on this topic.

Comments

Your always a great man until...

[arkham4269.livejournal.com]

...you piss on capitalism. The minute you get in the way of that you are suddenly a threat and a Commie. Just ask Aristide or Mohammad Mosaddegh or probably any Latin American country leader right before the Marines landed to enforce the will of companies like U.S. Fruit.