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Boxing up Charlton Heston
Posted By katie allison granju
I was listening to NPR over the weekend, and in their story about Charlton Heston’s death, the reporter noted that in the 1960s, he marched and demonstrated in the Civil Rights Movement. She then went on to say that he “then became more conservative over the years,” ending up as head of the NRA.
Her clear suggestion was that by becoming head of the NRA, Heston had turned his back on his earlier views on ending racial inequality.
This is the kind of stuff that gives NPR its reputation as a pointy headed liberal network. Could the reporter not conceive of the possibility that Heston both believed in the work of the Civil Rights Movement AND believed in the work of the NRA? Granted, this wouldn’t allow the man’s political philosophy to fit neatly into one tidy box (”liberal” or “conservative”), but from what I know of Heston, he really didn’t.
Apr 7th, 2008
Excellent observation. The media in all its nonsense tries to simplify people into nice and neat categories when people are in reality complex and diverse. Until the media (or most of it anyways) will continue to lose viewers/readers or get more competition which is great so as long as they try simplifying things that are worth simplifying.
Let’s get our facts right. I was the Democrats that didn’t want Blacks to have equal rights. And it’s the Democrats that don’t think Black people can make it on their own. They need the Government to help them or they won’t make it is their philosophy. Republicans have faith that they can make it on their own if they are given a level playing field.