We just lost 3 great liberals - Johnny Carson, Ossie Davis, Arthur Miller

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These men were three of the best at looking into the minds and hearts of the everyday man. They held a mirror up to us as a nation and we saw our flaws, our beauty, our desperation, our humor, our weaknesses and our nobility.

Three of America's finest. Three American liberals.

I wonder what Rush or Hannity would sound like to their listeners if they replaced the word liberal with Johnny Carson?

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1. You are so right.

I've had the same thought and desperately hope there are younger voices, like theirs, in the rank.

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7. The corporate media will never allow those voices to become as popular as

Carson's or as widely acknowledged as Davis' or Miller's.

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2. So true. So sad.

Three thoughtfull, intelligent and creative minds have been silenced. However, their work will live on. The Crucible, Miller's play, is especially important. He wrote it in response to the 1950's un-American hearings in DC.

Rush and Hannity's listeners probably have never read or seen a play. They do not read literature. They were not involved in the civil rights movement. They do not create art. They are clueless morans.

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3. The Crucible was one of the favorite things I read in English class

I loved it even more when I found out why he wrote it in History class. That alone would have been a career of distinction but he also wrote Death of a Salesman. And, superficially, married Marylin Monroe. His plays will be studied by school kids in 2300 just like Shakespeare is studied now.

Carson, what can one say. Carnac, the tribute to his son, and so many wonderful moments of late night TV.

Davis was a gem. I am glad Spike Lee cast him in Do the Right Thing which revived a career.

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4. IF the Dominionist/Fascists take over, no copy of The Crucible will exist.

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5. Shakespeare survived Cromwell

and 'degenerate' art survived Hitler. Miller's work will survive Bush.

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6. Hey...this is DU, where we engage in hyperbole from time to time.

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Though, I think I'll bury a copy of my favorites in a time capsule if they do takeover.