FDR's "Fala" Speech

[Joe Allonby]

This is pretty cool on its own merit.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds so very similar to what the Republicans are doing today:
>
> Video
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gztvtSyTdY
>
> Text
> http://www.hpol.org/fdr/fala/
>
> Snippets from a pretty long speech:
>
> "The whole purpose of Republican oratory these days seems to be to
> switch labels. The object is to persuade the American people that the
> Democratic Party was responsible for the 1929 crash and the
> depression, and that the Republican Party was responsible for all
> social progress under the New Deal."
>
> "Well, let us take some simple illustrations that come to mind. For
> example, although I rubbed my eyes when I read it, we have been told
> that it was not a Republican depression, but a Democratic depression
> from which this Nation was saved in 1933 - that this Administration
> this one today - is responsible for all the suffering and misery that
> the history books and the American people have always thought had been
> brought about during the twelve ill-fated years when the Republican
> party was in power."
>
> "These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or
> my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my
> little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my
> family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know,
> Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the
> Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story
> that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a
> destroyer back to find him - at a cost to the taxpayers of two or
> three, or eight or twenty million dollars- his Scotch soul was
> furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to
> hearing malicious falsehoods about myself - such as that old,
> worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable.
> But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements
> about my dog."
>