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Article: CHARMER'S SPELL SOMETIMES FAILS.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1997
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Byline: Nat Hentoff Newspaper Enterprise Association
I am not surprised to see the nation's leading anti-Semite being legitimized by the media and some politicians. Last year, for example, Minister Louis Farrakhan was named by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Americans. Recently, columnist Robert Novak, not previously known for being easily impressionable, has said that the Republican Party would be strengthened if it opened the door to Farrakhan.
This does not surprise me because it has happened before. When I was a boy in Boston - in the time of Father Charles E. Coughlin - our mayor, James Michael Curley, proudly declared Boston to be ...