V2nd - Chapter 8 the indifferent pioneer

[Michael Bailey]

"This man, a foul-mouthed louseridden booze-hound, a corrupt
legislator and an indifferent pioneer, was being set up for the
nation's youth as a towering and clean-limbed example of Anglo-Saxon
superiority."

was he really that bad?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett
As a Congressman, Crockett supported the rights of squatters, who were
barred from buying land in the West without already owning property.
He also opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, and his
opposition to Jackson caused his defeat when he ran for re-election in
1830; however, he won when he ran again in 1832....

In an 1884 book written by dime novelist[13] and non-fiction
author[14] Edward S. Ellis, Crockett is recorded as giving a speech
(the "Not Yours to Give" speech) critical of his Congressional
colleagues who were willing to spend taxpayer dollars to help a widow
of a US Navy man who had lived beyond his naval service, but would not
contribute their own salary for a week to the cause....The
authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register
of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of
speeches made on the House floor. Crockett is on record opposing a
similar bill and offering personal support to the family of a General
Brown in April 1828,[17] but Crockett considered applications for
relief on a case by case basis and sometimes voted in favor of the
applicant.[18]  An article by Crockett biographer James R. Boylston
debunking the "Not Yours to Give" speech was published in the November
2004 issue of The Crockett Chronicle.[19]

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where is all the hate for Crockett coming from?  In the whole
wikipedia article I didn't really find anything so terrible.
maybe Roonie, or the narrator, just hates the song (I used to like it,
but I was like 5 during the 2nd airing)

we know Pynchon hated "Abba Dabba Honeymoon"...
sometimes certain things just get under your skin!  I used to
experience the "ring around the collar" Wisk commercial like
blackboard-nails, for instance...




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