The thing is, for me, and for a lot of people, Churchill is the prime instance of a politician who stood up for the truth, paid for it, and eventually went on to win. He is a moral example, and therefore this has more to do with your instance of the people who think it is all right to drink and drive or to date underage children. This was an assault upon the common sense of morality, built on ignorant gossip and fuelled by egotism that cannot bear to see anyone placed higher than oneself. (Whereas I for one know no pleasure greater than admiration.) Think of someone you really respect so highly that it would hurt you personally to hear him/her slandered; and think of your feeling if the slander were not only vile, not only ignorant, but arrogantly treated as obvious. This is what it is about.
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Date: 2005-02-17 07:31 am (UTC)Are you still up? What time of day is it over there?