Monday, September 18, 2017

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE GREAT SAMUEL JOHNSON AS A "GOOGLE DOODLE" - BUT JOHNSON WAS A SUPREME CRITIC OF AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS AS FEW AMERICANS KNOW



COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT


Samuel Johnson: The celebrated lexicographer's 10 finest quotes and witticisms
Today's Google Doodle raises a dish of tea to the man who said, 'Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both'

A rather tepid selection, as you might expect from Google, aka, America’s friendly domestic face of the CIA.

Johnson could be so forceful and was one of our great defenders of humanity.

I've always especially liked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"

That rings true down to the present day in some sense.

The words were a dart aimed right for the heart of Thomas Jefferson, the century's greatest hypocrite.

The famous "Patriotism and scoundrels" quote was also aimed at him, but few Americans appreciate the fact.