Huffington Post Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Refugees: Trump is like Churchill? Come on.

24 November 2015 Comments 1 Comment

The Huffington Post for November 23rd (“Shocked by anti-Muslim Hysteria? Churchill Wanted to ‘Collar the Lot'”). They include an unsubstantiated Churchill quote to describe something about Syrian refugees Donald Trump said. It distorts Churchill’s record.

Anent Trump’s alleged proposal for a database of Muslims, the Post assures us this was nothing compared to that well-known xenophobe, Winston Churchill:

Churchill went even farther. He ordered the internment of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in England, labeling them dangerous enemy aliens. … Nationals from Germany and Austria, who were living in England when World War II broke out, had already been assigned to different groupings based on their apparent threat to the UK.…

Misquotes: “At your throat or your feet”

21 May 2015 Comments 4 Comments

The Huffington Post reports that the National Memo’s Joe Conason criticized Joe Scarborough’s ambivalent attitude toward the Clintons by misquoting Churchill: “It’s what he said about the Hun, which is, ‘They’re either at your feet or at your throat.'”

“You just used a Winston Churchill quote to compare me to a Nazi because you don’t like the facts,” Scarborough replied.

“No, I didn’t compare you to a Nazi,” said Conason. “He wasn’t talking about the Nazis, he was talking about World War I. [The Huns] were not Nazis.”

Ah, all Huns are not Nazis, but in Churchill’s context, most Nazis were Huns!…

Connie Marrero: Oldest Players

27 April 2012 Comments 1 Comment

¡Ex ligamayorista Marrero cumple 102 años!

“He threw everything toward the plate but the ball.” —Ted Williams

Conrado Eugenio Marrero, the oldest living major league baseball player, celebrated his 102nd birthday in Havana on April 25, 2013 with one of his patented cigars. Connie passed away just short of his 103rd birthday on April 23, 2014.

Connie Marrero pitched 735 innings for the Washington Senators in 1950-54, compiling a W-L record of 39-40. He was named to the 1951 All-Star team but did not play. He left after being scratched from the 1955 roster.…