tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post4167038137419009659..comments2024-03-24T23:57:28.687-07:00Comments on Undercover Black Man: Q&A: Eldridge Cleaver (pt. 3)Undercover Black Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08704721024820668555noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-1432014282861255212007-03-05T12:36:00.000-08:002007-03-05T12:36:00.000-08:00So what was he wearing when you interviewed him? ...So what was he wearing when you interviewed him? I am now dying to see the pouch pants, must go look on the internet.<BR/><BR/>All of your interviews are wonderful to read David not only because you get them talking, but also because you ask the questions I'd like to hear answered.Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17667492797140280538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-23868875537915630942007-03-02T17:31:00.000-08:002007-03-02T17:31:00.000-08:00Thanks,David. I ...Thanks,David. I think as a journalist, you really do have to leave your personal feelings out of it. The best stories I've done were about people who things that ran counter to my view of the world. I tried to keep my politics private anyway -- most of the time folks thought what they thought about you anyway.<BR/><BR/>Itainteazy - I dig your p.o.v. totally but I'm starting to think our current administration is driving more folks waaay across the aisle and over the fence and through the woods to the other side. I hope there's a 'middle ground' there somewhere that's rational and responsible. But who knows?S.O.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13516730967355152655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-8673255210880803472007-03-02T15:47:00.000-08:002007-03-02T15:47:00.000-08:00Looks like yet another example of how totally beli...Looks like yet another example of how totally believing hard-left Marxist ideology and then becoming disillusioned when one finally come around to how ridiculous and unworkable it is makes a person swing hard to the irrational right in order to "atone" for their past sins. I try not to buy into the radical leftist rhetoric, but with this administration at the helm, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-70145513785853234562007-03-02T13:56:00.000-08:002007-03-02T13:56:00.000-08:00Thanks for all, S.O.L. Even back in college, my th...Thanks for all, S.O.L. Even back in college, my thing about interviews was just to get people to reveal their true selves... which meant making no judgements about anything they said. No problem for me, because I'm truly less interested in people's ideologies than in how they reveal themselves through language.<BR/><BR/>So even in the thick of the Reagan Era, I didn't get worked up about Cleaver flacking for him. I just grooved on the irony.<BR/><BR/>With the whole bit about the homosexual conspiracy involving men's pants, I guess a case could be made that Eldridge Cleaver was half-nuts by the age of 46. Whether that has anything to do with his change in politics, I don't know. He's certainly not the only ex-radical to swing to the right. He's clearly intelligent; maybe he just came to his conservativism through continual examination of the world.<BR/><BR/>In any case, I don't judge. I just get 'em talking.Undercover Black Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08704721024820668555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-69335001090646412072007-03-02T12:43:00.000-08:002007-03-02T12:43:00.000-08:00I know this must sound like a knee-jerk liberal re...I know this must sound like a knee-jerk liberal reaction, but it's really and truly disheartening that this man's heroes were Ronald Reagan and the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. <BR/><BR/>I just don't see how anyone who has been exposed to suffering first hand (prisons, harrassement, prejudice) could back people like that.<BR/><BR/>His whole take on Jimmy Carter sounds like the Republican talking points of the day. Carter being "weak" on foreign policy rejects his overall accomplishments. I'm not saying it's right that he was shouted down at all -- everybody should have their say of course -- but he wasn't showing the original thinking that he claims. He was flacking for a majority party that wasn't doing a damn thing for poor people or minorities, was destroying the environment and disemboweling the school system and -- in a real geopolitical sense -- was laying the ground work for this administration's response to 9/11.<BR/><BR/>David - do you think he was just deluded? Or tired or did he really believe this stuff? And, seriously, did you get a sense how he was able to reconcile the realities of what the Reagan Republican movement was doing to poor people with his belief they were good leaders? Or did he just not get it?<BR/><BR/><BR/>This is such excellent stuff, David. I want to ask you how you were such a composed interviewer at such a young age. It took me years of being a journalist before I learned how to ask good questions -- If I had saved any of my interviews from my college days, I would dare share them. More than likely, I sounded like a moron.S.O.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13516730967355152655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486244714643027014.post-85869800605165622322007-03-02T12:28:00.000-08:002007-03-02T12:28:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11157885951055623500noreply@blogger.com