Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Og2CMn-Sg&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tik88ItJ-pA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8QdpQFIPs&feature=player_embedded
Munro is a hero. The vast majority of the “media” is a slovenly mob of spineless sycophants.
It wasn’t impropriety or disrespect; the old guard simply didn’t want that question asked because they wanted that detail to be ignored.
Murrow said of Joe McCarthy:
His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind, as between the internal and the external threats of Communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it—and rather successfully.
History seams to be repeating itself, only the actors have changed.
We remember.
We rebuild.
We come back stronger.
~ Barack Obama
On Friday, he goes forth with his intended purpose:
We [Amalek] remember.
We [Amalek] rebuild.
We [Amalek] come back stronger.
There is a mitzvah in the Torah to remember Amalek and his descendants and to orally recall their iniquity. We are to tell our children in each generation what the people of Amalek did to us during our departure from Egypt. This mitzvah will be fulfilled completely only when we shall have caused Amalek's memory to perish, and their name to be erased from the world, together with the slightest remnant of anything that bears their name. As the Torah says: 'Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, upon your departure from Egypt'... 'You shall erase the memory of Amalek from beneath the heavens, you shall not forget.' Upon which the Sages have expounded: 'Remember,' orally - 'You shall not forget,' in your heart.
To properly fulfill this commandment, the Sages have prescribed the public reading of this passage from a Torah scroll, once every year, on the Shabbat which precedes Purim - so that the 'wiping-out' of Amalek might be adjacent to the 'wiping-out' of Haman, the latter being a descendant of Amalek.
Zachor
Curious that June 13th, the eve of Obamalek's vow, was the 23rd of Sivan. That was the day (Esther 8:9) the decree was written and sealed, allowing the Jews to defend themselves against Haman's decree to destroy them [which was set for 13 Adar]:
וְנִצְדַּק קֹדֶשׁ ...
... and then the holy [separated ones] will be vindicated.
"Never forget!"