Another Trivia Question
By the way, since we seem to be trivia-happy this week: In the excellent Zell Miller article I mention above, Miller relates the history of the tumultuous, epoch-changing 1972 Democratic Convention. He relates just how crazy it was, and just how damaging to the party and its Presidential nominee.
During the 1968 convention, which was arguably the precursor to the 1972 convention, the late Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley (father of the current Mayor, Richard M. Daley) actually stood up and, on national television, screamed "F*** you, you Jew son of a bitch! You lousy mother f***er go home!" at one of the speakers.
For five million Trivia Geek points, name who he screamed that at, and why.
Pfffft, easy google fodder, it was Senator Abraham Ribicoff (from Connecticut).
Puts Bush's "asshole" gaffe in perspective, don't it?
Oh, and the reason was that before nominating McGovern Ribicoff commented that if McGovern were president the police wouldn't be running amok beating antiwar protestors.
Are you sure Daley said that in 1972...?
I remember him saying that about Ribicoff in Chicago in 1968.
I was right, Robin was wrong. (Don't feel bad -- I was watching the convention on TV that night Daley melted down).
Read more here.
And Robin, keep the geek points. They suit you better!
hee hee!
Ara's right. That happened in 1968, not '72. I'm correcting the main article to reflect that.
Ribicoff specifically referred to the "Gestapo tactics" of the Chicago Police Department, which seems to have really set off Daley.
By the way, I also quoted Daley wrong--I'm correcting both in the main article, too. It now reads correctly.
Make sure Robin gets his geek points...OK?
Of course. However, I have to give you an additional half-million just for correcting me, and another half-million for being old enough to remember the whole thing. %-)
No one is mentioning that that was the same convention where Daley's boys clubbed Dan Rather silly.
Not condoning, of course, I'm sure even Dan is proud of being on the receiving end. But worth a mention.
Dean:
wow! a million geek points!!
Finally! a tangible benefit for being old!
Like I tell my kids: pay attention to current events because someday, somewhere, someone will play fast and loose with the facts...and you'll be there to keep em honest.
:^)
Andrew X:
You remind me of a similar incident at the Repub Convention in SF in 1964 -- John Chancellor was on the floor covering some contretemps when he got arrested! He signed off memorably that night saying, "This is John Chancellor, NBC News, somewhere in custody."
Bwah!
Come to think of it, that probably explains a lot about old Dan......
If the Democrats could only do the same thing foo all of us all over again in 2002.