Comments on: Nixon Destroys JSA, JFK (per ad in NYT) http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/ Conservatism for punks. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:25:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1438 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:33:38 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1438 Actually, given the whole continuity-revision minefield, I should perhaps have made it more clear that I simply meant "they really depicted it that way" (and there's no reason yet to think it's been undone, since it was depicted in the late-70s JSA series, not just _America vs. the Justice Society_, and was not thus dependent on an appearance by the original Batman). As far as we know, the JSA still broke up (for a long time) in 1951 under HUAC pressure, so most likely Nixon still gets at least part of the blame -- as he does for driving some free-marketeers out of the Republican Party and into the then-new Libertarian Party, but that's a topic for another entry, such as this one: http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/01/mr-fusion-ron-paul/ On a related note, I notice that not even Wikipedia (at the time of this comment) mentions that the original Batman -- and for all the convoluted things that DC Comics has done to its fictional history, the "Earth-2" Batman was undeniably the original -- died at the hands of villains named Bill Jensen and the Soul Thief. Have we forgotten the classics in this society? Actually, given the whole continuity-revision minefield, I should perhaps have made it more clear that I simply meant “they really depicted it that way” (and there’s no reason yet to think it’s been undone, since it was depicted in the late-70s JSA series, not just _America vs. the Justice Society_, and was not thus dependent on an appearance by the original Batman). As far as we know, the JSA still broke up (for a long time) in 1951 under HUAC pressure, so most likely Nixon still gets at least part of the blame — as he does for driving some free-marketeers out of the Republican Party and into the then-new Libertarian Party, but that’s a topic for another entry, such as this one: http://toddseavey.com/2007/08/01/mr-fusion-ron-paul/

On a related note, I notice that not even Wikipedia (at the time of this comment) mentions that the original Batman — and for all the convoluted things that DC Comics has done to its fictional history, the “Earth-2″ Batman was undeniably the original — died at the hands of villains named Bill Jensen and the Soul Thief. Have we forgotten the classics in this society?

]]> by: Jacob T. Levy http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1433 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:50:44 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1433 Is it canon? Wasn't that from America vs. the JSA, which was pre-COIE and prominently involved Batman-2? (Even apart from the whole "nothing published before last June is canon" problem, of course.) Is it canon? Wasn’t that from America vs. the JSA, which was pre-COIE and prominently involved Batman-2?

(Even apart from the whole “nothing published before last June is canon” problem, of course.)

]]> by: Todd Seavey http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1416 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:18:27 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1416 It may be a sign of the writers' non-linear thinking that their text is not easily accessible online, nor their company's website functioning, but the second comment at this URL resembles some text from today's ad: http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid31507.aspx And since they spent a fair amount of time denouncing _Washington Post_ editors for stringing them along and failing to return some of their mailed-in research (that part I can easily believe -- bigtime media folk are selfish users), MediaBistro notes the whole thing here, reprinting a couple paragraphs from the ad: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/a_beautiful_mind_takes_on_ben_bradlee_64164.asp It may be a sign of the writers’ non-linear thinking that their text is not easily accessible online, nor their company’s website functioning, but the second comment at this URL resembles some text from today’s ad:

http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid31507.aspx

And since they spent a fair amount of time denouncing _Washington Post_ editors for stringing them along and failing to return some of their mailed-in research (that part I can easily believe — bigtime media folk are selfish users), MediaBistro notes the whole thing here, reprinting a couple paragraphs from the ad:

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/a_beautiful_mind_takes_on_ben_bradlee_64164.asp

]]> by: Peg Fikes http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1413 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:49:05 +0000 http://toddseavey.com/2007/07/31/nixon-destroys-jsa-jfk-per-ad-in-nyt/#comment-1413 Is there a link to the ad? Is there a link to the ad?

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