RIP

[Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com]

I used to like the guy until he got a bit too right-wing for me.  
I hate to rain on y'all's parade, but when he went to Viet Nam & in one of 
his jokes called the bombing of Hanoi a "slum clearance program."
Sometimes his humor was not so gentle.  Still, I love the duet in Big 
Broadcast of 1938.  And the road movies still get me to laughing.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/29/1059244618336.html

"But when he visited Vietnam he found himself out of touch with the 
pot-smoking troops, many of them black, who heckled him and held up placards reading 
'Peace Not Hope.' For once his chirpy personality became rattled, Hope, who 
supported the bombing of Hanoi, failed to comprehend why he had suddenly lost the 
widespread devotion that had hitherto been bestowed on him by the common 
soldier.
"Yet one must acknowledge the pleasure he had given audiences for more than 
half a century."  




    



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