Getting out of August always is a relief, not only because the hot weather will begin to abate but because we are past the annual media blarney about atomic bombs.
Each year they wail and woe about the plight of the Japanese citizens who were evaporated by two bombs U.S. aircraft dropped on their cities.
Everyone regrets the loss of civilian Japanese life, but we don’t regret ending World War II and saving millions of lives – Japanese and American – that would have been lost in an invasion of Japan.
The liberal media also seems to overlook the 2,500 lives lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
August also is the time when the local media revels in Axe Handle Day, which took place during that month in 1960. It was a protest by people with dark skin against segregation, which was supported by Democrats. I daresay most of the people wielding axe handles were Democrats.
Each year the media seem to build it up until it resembles the Battle of Antietam.
I was there. I’ve seen worse fights on school grounds.
Two people were struck in my view. One was a dark-skinned boy riding a bicycle who was stopped by two men at Hogan and Monroe streets. One of them hit him, for no particular reason. Fortunately, the cowardly act did not hurt the youngster.
At the corner of Hogan and Duval I saw a crowd pursue an older dark-skinned man into one of the doorways at the Penney’s store and hit him several times. I tried to get photos but couldn’t get close enough and one burly redneck advised me to put away my camera, which seemed like good advice.
At the corner of Laura and Monroe I saw a young black man who had been hit with an axe handle and was bleeding profusely. Someone else got his picture and it ran in Life magazine. (Life looked at my negatives but didn’t use any.)
Future Sheriff Nat Glover was there and said he was struck by a white-skinned guy but I didn’t know Glover at the time and didn’t see it happen.
The newspaper did not play it like World War III but it did publish a story. That was the managing editor’s call, made on the grounds that overplaying it could heighten tensions, and it was a reasonable one. Many years later, after the paper fell under liberal control, it wrote woke stories criticizing itself for not exaggerating the event.
September brings a respite and then comes October, when the liberal media does its annual bashing of Western civilization by slandering and libeling explorer Christopher Columbus.
When two cultures met in the 15th century it usually meant conflict and, if it was the first meeting, an exchange of diseases. The liberal media uses this fact to accuse Columbus of genocide.
After that comes the religious holidays observed and treasured by most Americans and therefore considered distasteful by the liberal media, which either pans them or ignores them.
Happy holidays everyone, in advance.
