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Friday, May 22, 2009
The City Journal published an excellent piece this week on how Hollywood invented a legend in regards to the gay San Francisco supervisor, Harvey Milk. He was the subject of a recent Oscar-nominated film, and the actor who played him won the Best Actor award. Turns out, it was all a screenwriter's sham. The real Harvey Milk "was a short-tempered demagogue who cynically invented stories of victimhood to advance his political career." He also strongly supported Jim Jones up until Jones poisoned his entire following.

1 comments:

Chris A said...

This is sort of old news by now, but I just found out. Harvey Milk was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chuck-wolfe/harvey-milk-what-his-pres_b_256710.html

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