5:13 P The Day After: Chris Matthews just compared the Democrats' conundrum between a black man and a woman as "Sophie's choice," quickly adding "not so brutal." Talking heads David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell were stone-faced. I was shocked. Shocked. William Styron's book "Sophie's Choice" made into a 1982 movie starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline ends with Sophie's secret: she chose her daughter to die at Auschwitz rather than her son.
After she's herded off the train Sophie stands before a Nazi with her two young children. The Nazi tells her to decide which child lives. "Don't make me choose. I can't choose!" The Nazi orders both children taken away and in a moment of agony she releases her daughter, shouting "Take my little girl!" Sophie can only watch as the screaming little girl is carried away to her death.
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Nothing can compare to that horror! What was he thinking. Oh that's it, he wasn't thinking.
It's this level of desensitization that will lead us (mankind) to our doom.
but guess what? nobody else has picked up my observation. at least not to my knowledge. where is the outrage? i'm incensed beyond belief.
Deja vu, again. On CNN's "American Morning" today (Oct 3, 2008 @ 11:17am Pacific Time), anchor Kiran Chetry quoted what another reporter had heard about the $700B Bailout bill that had just passed in the House of Reps ... that passing it was a "Sophie's Choice". She then burst out laughing. The other CNN newsperson sharing the split-screen just stood there, shocked. I don't think Chetry is a monster, merely ignorant, but saying/acting as she did was just stupid.
I'm a bozo. In the Post above, I mistakenly attributed to Kiran Chetry ("American Morning") what was ACTUALLY said by Kyra Phillips on CNN's Newsroom program. My bad.
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