verification -- Khrushchev's appearances on TV

[Sharon Knox]

I think the posting which (rightly!) provoked Prof. Kalbouss's and
Derbyshire's eye-rolling was this one:

>I wouldn't be surprised if our (US) organs of disinformation fabricated
>that footage that we all remember seeing.  You know, exactly the same way
>they've fabricated the "weapons of mass destruction" that Saddam is
>supposed to have. [...]

This comment is the academic equivalent of a bumper sticker
-- provocative but vapid -- and it's too bad it turned this
delightful discussion sour. Thanks to Professors Kalbouss and
Derbyshire for the reality check.


Quoting William Derbyshire <Wwdslovene at AOL.COM>:

> In a message dated 05/07/2003 3:57:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> elenka at UVIC.CA writes:
>
> > Response to a message from Bill Derbyshire:
> > You have misunderstood my comment about verification.
> >
>        No, I misunderstood nothing. What I find most amusing is the fact
> that you think that I was reacting to your letter. In fact, I never even
> read
> your posting! I jumped into this otherwise silly debate only when I noticed
> that there was a response from my old friend Prof. Kalbouss.
>
> > My comment that made you lose you temper was.......
>        My goodness! I was not aware that "I had lost my temper"!! The
> phrase "gimme a break" does not constitute a loss of temper.
>
>        What does bother me is your suggestion that this famous incident
> was "edited". Well, duh! Of course. Are not most TV and those old news
> film clips of the past edited? Books are edited, articles are edited, and
> so
> are any news broadcasts on the radio and on the TV. Perhaps you meant
> to say that the incident as shown was altered in some way through trick
> photography. Well, if that is so, then I can only suggest that you make
> an effort to track down some of that footage, or ideally find  a witness
> who
> was actually present when the shoe banging took place, since you seem
> to think that people like Prof. Kalbouss and I are the victims of memories
> on whom propaganda played some kind a trick.
>        My major concern here is that people not engage in historical
> revisionism
> of facts for whatever purpose. Why would anyone want to defend Khrushchev's
> boorish behavior in any case? And let us keep in mind that there are people
> out
> there who also deny the holocaust or the severity of the holocaust. This
> kind
> of
> debate, admittedly on a very minor scale, is a painful reminder of just
> that.
>                                      Wm. Derbyshire
>
>
>
>
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