Koch Died “of Complications of a Stake Driven into His Heart.” Love it.
Who doesn’t love a good laugh?
Who doesn’t have deep respect for true talent in comedy and writing?
Simply fabulous.
(Note the name of the paper.) Ha!
Who doesn’t love a good laugh?
Who doesn’t have deep respect for true talent in comedy and writing?
Simply fabulous.
(Note the name of the paper.) Ha!
Craig,
“Who doesn’t have deep respect for true talent in comedy and writing.(Note the name of the paper.Ha)”
Well, I suppose if you were an undergraduate in 1972 reading National Lampoon you might have thought the title hilarious, but a plagiarized version in 2019 is more than a little passe for those of us old enough to remember the original.
David Koch left behind a wife of 30 years, and three children (David Jr., Mary Julia, and John Mark. He was a devoted father and husband, and one of America’s greatest philanthropists.
Some of his causes such as prison reform, rehabilitation and redemption programs for the most downtrodden and despised in US society will miss his support and assistance.
So will many underprivileged African-American college students who rely on UNCF assistance to pay for college or find internships and career assistance assistance.
When no one else would help, David Koch stepped up with not just tens of millions of dollars, but real involvement.
As early as 1980, David Koch was advocating getting rid of penalties for victim-less crimes, ending the drug war, equal rights for gays and lesbians, gay marriage, later he argued against the Iraq war.
He loathed the populist Donald Trump.
He was listed as one of the world’s top 20 philanthropists.
He was a Libertarian, rich enough to poke holes in both leftist and right hypocrisy, earning him the enmity and hatred of both side of politics, but especially the left and the chattering classes.
Being wealthy, he was a target of envy, malice and hatred of all sort of individuals who displayed amazing levels of hypocrisy.
The comedian and late night talk show host Stephan Colbert was extremely vicious toward David Koch’s wealth, and yet Colbert himself earn $25 million per year with an estimated net worth of over $100 million.
Gloating at the death of political opponents always comes with a price as Cassius, Brutus and the other plotters found to their dismay.
But as Shakespeare’s funeral speech illustrates, there’s a far more practical reason to refrain from too much vilification of the dead.
Not only is there a counter-reaction as others raise the good the dead man accomplished in life, those vilifying the dead look mean, petty and their motives hypocritical and dishonest.
Thus David Koch’s detractors have inadvertently dug a grave for their own credibility and a prisoners in a never ending circle of hate fueled by their own animosity and spite.