05-10-2017, 11:24 PM
(05-10-2017, 03:47 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(05-10-2017, 02:16 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Even the method of firing is erratic in the extreme: it was broadcast on television.
Is this the first public firing since Arthur Godfrey's firing of Julius LaRosa?
Similarly tactless, and it gutted the nice-guy image of Arthur Godfrey.
Another crass example: pizza magnate Tom Monahan hired retired U of M football coach Bo Schembechler* as President of his Detroit Tigers baseball team, and fired the legendary football coach by fax.
*That tells you how spell-check works: someone out of sight who was once fantastically famous can fade away.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.