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By Carmine Santa Maria
Brooklyn Daily
I’m madder than Edward R. Murrow without a Camel between his fingers over the fact that all these big wigs at television news outlets don’t know the difference between being patriotic and being biased in favor of America’s favorite country: America!
Look, you all know the ol’Screecher served our country bravely during the Korean conflict (and, no, I was not a member of the Canadian Moose Mounties, so let’s put that ugly rumor to rest, thank you very much!), and I can’t stand it that these boobs that run the boob tube won’t let their God-fearing talking heads wear the Stars and Stripes on their lapels while they tell your’s truly what happened in the world outside Brooklyn today.
That’s right! I read on the interweb that some smeckleheads at ABC think reporters shouldn’t pin Old Glory to their chests when delivering the news because of the press’s obligation to print the truth.
Well, the truth is this ban is absolutely ridiculous!
Old Baba Wawa is probably turning over in her grave right now knowing that the only people who will be hurt by this ban is ABC itself!
I’m told these nitwits’ reasoning is that the network that is the easiest to spell should remain neutral about “causes.”
Since when is patriotism discouraged on network television? We are slowly losing everything our country stands for and everything our men and women fought and died to preserve!
I tell ya, I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
This move by ABC is just a smokescreen designed to distract viewers of “The Good Wife” from the miserable job it is doing in programing the award-winning show that never seems to be on when I think it is. Sometimes I can’t find it unless I turn on Channel 2!
Now’s the point in the column where I remind you it’s not just Americans I like, it’s Italian as well!
If you haven’t read “The Untold Story of Luigi Del Bianco and Mount Rushmore,” by Douglas J. Gladstone, you are missing out. Now, I don’t understand why they call it “The Untold Story,” because it seems to me that that is what the whole book is about, but it just goes to show you once again that you cannot judge a book by its cover.
This valentine to the obscure Italian-American immigrant who served as chief carver of the Mount Rushmore is a real page turner written by the subject’s grandson, a children’s performer and storyteller from Port Chester named Lou Del Bianco.
Let me digress for a second. I know there is a Port Chester, and I know there is an East Chester, and I know there is a Westchester, but where the heck is Chester? And how the heck can you have something east of Port Chester, when by definition, that would be in the ocean. Can somebody please explain this to me?
Okay, back to the book. I don’t know if youse know how hard it was to carve a mountain into a setting for a scene from “North by Northwest,” but according to this tome, it is pretty tough, and if it wasn’t for Del Bianco, it would never have gotten done. And, of course, he never got any credit for his hard work.
Hey, Luigi, I know how your feel!
To add insult to injury, poor Louie died of accelerated silicosis that was brought on, in part, by his years of not wearing a mask while working at the monument.
Next up for Gladstone is “Carving a Niche for Himself,” which is coming out this May. I’d tell you about it, but I haven’t read it yet.
In the meantime, I’ll sit back and enjoy the Geico commercial where that crazy lizard can’t get a good signal on his cellphone until he steps out of George Washington’s eye from atop — you guessed it — Louie the Blond’s handiwork! Man, I love that lizard, and you’ll love this book!
And don’t forget! BWECC! meets Tuesday Jan. 28, 7:15 pm at Harway Terrace Community Room 2475 W. 16th St. Come on down to our open community meeting to meet our 2014 BWECC! gala honorees!
If you can’t make it, I’ll be profiling them during the next few weeks in this space!
Screech at you next week!