see also, The Forgotten Memoirs of John Knox, secretary to McReynolds
So said Scully in response to a caller who said he hopes Washington Journal disappears because it gives a voice to ignorant people like "racist Tea Partiers."
8:48 am: caller -- complaining about Trumka, says Scully is "most liberal of all." Scully says "we have all sides on this program 7 days a week . . ." Caller's complaint is that Scully does not fairly represent Republicans.
Caller: 8:57 am: Last time prices went very high what was driving it was speculation. Same thing is happening now, it's not scarcity, it's an opportunity. We can't even see who is doing the speculating.
Guest (John Felmy, American Petroleum Institute): Yes you can see, commodities trading is heavily regulated.
9:06 Wyoming caller in praise of oil companies--all they do for the community. Felmy echoes, says must
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I agree with the caller at 8:48, that Scully is "about the worst," but not because he's "liberal" or against Republicans; my opinion echoes that of Chris Hedges, that those terms and distinctions are meaningless.
Scully is "about the worst" because he does not even acknowledge to himself how sedulously he is defending the status quo, and protecting Israel and zionism at all costs.
Brian Lamb similarly defends Jews -- yes, Jews.
In an interview of the author of the biography of Sandy Weil, Lamb expressed disgust that WEIL was engaging in anti-anti semitic talk and behavior.
And in an interview of M Urofsky, biographer of Louis Brandeis, Lamb and Urofsky discussed Brandeis's resignation from the Supreme Court in 1939, and the letter of farewell that all of the justices save one, McReynolds signed. Lamb expressed disgust that McReynolds would refuse to sign the letter, attributing it to antisemitism but without saying the word -- Lamb did not SAY the judge was antisemitic or hated Jews, he merely implied it by his body language and tenor and context of the conversation. Urofsky, however, supplied the missing piece -- he said, "McReynolds would say, 'that Jew . . .'" referring to Brandeis.
Does the possibility exist that McReynolds had a profound ideological or moral concern that Brandeis had acted or was acting in ways detrimental to American interests, and THAT was the source of his refusal to sign the letter? ** see "Forgotten Memoir John Knox"
Lies are what the world lives on, and those who know the truth and live their lives in accord are finally, not the many but the few. ~ Joseph Campbell, "Myths to Live By"
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McReynolds, James Clark
McReynolds, James Clark (mukren'uldz) [key], 1862–1946, U.S. Attorney General (1913–14) and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–41), b. Elkton, Ky. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Virginia in 1884. He was a professor of law at Vanderbilt when he was appointed Assistant Attorney General by Theodore Roosevelt. He served from 1903 to 1907, and later, while practicing law, he was a special assistant to the Attorney General in several antitrust cases. He continued his active antitrust work as Attorney General. Appointed by President Wilson to the Supreme Court, he opposed most expansions of the power of the federal government, firmly supporting laissez-faire economic policies. He particularly opposed the New Deal legislation, which he believed violated the Constitution. As a result, he was a key target in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's unsuccessful attempt to reconstitute the Supreme Court. Considered a difficult and rather unfriendly man, McReynolds was an anti-Semite who thoroughly disliked his fellow justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo.
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James C. McReynolds (1913–1914): Attorney General
The son of a surgeon, James Clark McReynolds was born on February 3, 1862, in Elkton, Kentucky. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1882 and followed in the footsteps of the President he would serve, Woodrow Wilson, by studying law at the University of Virginia, earning his degree in 1884. McReynolds entered the political arena when he served briefly as private secretary to U.S. Senator Howell E. Jackson. He returned to his law practice in Nashville, Tennessee, before losing in a bid for Congress as a "gold" Democrat in 1896.
McReynolds taught law at Vanderbilt University from 1900 to 1903, at which time he was appointed assistant U.S. attorney general by President Theodore Roosevelt. As special counsel for the government from 1907 to 1912, McReynolds prosecuted violators of the Sherman Antitrust Act. President Woodrow Wilson named him attorney general on March 5, 1913.
When Associate Justice Horace Lurton resigned from the Supreme Court in August 1914, Wilson tapped McReynolds to take his place. McReynolds served on the high court for twenty-six years, until February 1, 1941, voting down most New Deal measures during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. He died on August 24, 1946, in Washington, D.C.
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