RIP

[pynchonoid]

Gotta agree with Till on this one, much as I often
find to admire in Hope the entertainer.  Having been
on the receiving end of the sort of UFO show Hope
specialized in for our troops overseas, it's difficult
to understand what he did in Vietnam and afterwards
except as helping to prop up the USA's criminal,
imperial enterprise.

--- Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com wrote:
> 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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