Well, I kept silent for 2 1/2 years and held my University of Wisconsin position for 5 years, so I'm a little quicker on the uptake than Alan, but still a lot slower than I should have been. And Candace Owen was silent throughout her career until last week. I don't think people are slow to speak out because they are gatekeepers. It's the people who never speak out, or say the wrong things, like Chomsky, who are the gatekeepers. Alan is just a typical American with a patriotic-conservative worldview that got in the way of him figuring things out.
Generally, I lean toward Kevin's prior response, and it boils down to case by case. Specifically, I'm inclined to agree with you on Hersh. His knowledge of Angleton is new to me, but prior, I considered his "Camelot" book in 1997-98 a planned, sophisticated "hit piece." And it subsequently came out that My Lai was far from a single, radical outlying event, which I figure someone with his inside knowledge and connections would know. The Russian pipeline story also struck me as not quite on key.
Well, I kept silent for 2 1/2 years and held my University of Wisconsin position for 5 years, so I'm a little quicker on the uptake than Alan, but still a lot slower than I should have been. And Candace Owen was silent throughout her career until last week. I don't think people are slow to speak out because they are gatekeepers. It's the people who never speak out, or say the wrong things, like Chomsky, who are the gatekeepers. Alan is just a typical American with a patriotic-conservative worldview that got in the way of him figuring things out.
Generally, I lean toward Kevin's prior response, and it boils down to case by case. Specifically, I'm inclined to agree with you on Hersh. His knowledge of Angleton is new to me, but prior, I considered his "Camelot" book in 1997-98 a planned, sophisticated "hit piece." And it subsequently came out that My Lai was far from a single, radical outlying event, which I figure someone with his inside knowledge and connections would know. The Russian pipeline story also struck me as not quite on key.
Stone's JFK may have been the greatest limited hangout of all time.