SPPN Channel: Huey Long: All The Kings Men

Source:SPPN– Louisiana Governor Huey Long. 

“See priceless and rare footage of the actual Kingfish in action and see the real story right here! This newsreel culminates footage from Paramount and Pathe News, which we are the copyright holders of.”

From SPPN

I think the best way to describe Huey Long ( aka Louisiana Kingfish ) would be compared him with the recently deceased President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. Even though Huey was a lot more Democratic than Hugo and believed in a greater deal of freedom. But they were both basically dictators who were corrupt who meant well and wanted to do good things. But weren’t really cutout to be chief executives and people with strong Socialist leanings.

Both Huey and Hugo spoke about share the wealth and Social Justice, but wanted as much power as possible even centralized all the power with them to do these good works for the people. Huey Long was clearly a Democrat as far as party and politically and believed in democracy except when it went against him. And Hugo Chavez was a Socialist, but certainly not a Democratic Socialist.

Hugo was not a full-blooded Communist like Fidel Castro, but probably more like Neo-Communist. Someone who allowed for political opposition and a certain level of economic and personal freedom, but someone with strong dictatorial leanings as well. Huey was probably more Democratic than Hugo, but politically they were similar.

You cam also see this post at The New Democrat, on Blogger.

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Dread Not: All The Kings Men 1949- Broderick Crawford: As Willie Stark

 

Source:Dread Not– Broderick Crawford, as Willie Stark, in All The Kings Men.

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From Dread Not

One of the best speeches ever from a political movie, because it was so real. Because it sounded not so political with a man talking to the people where he came from and how he grew up. And his whole background rather than trying to convince people of how great the country and state is and how patriotic he was and everything.

What Willie Stark was doing instead was telling the people the plain truth and telling them that things aren’t that great right now. Too many people in poverty without enough food, the roads aren’t good enough for farmers and other business people to be able to get their products to market and so-forth. That they also need better hospitals and better schools. That they need a better educated workforce and community and that Stark knows these things because he comes from the same community and is one of these people himself.

But what he was also saying is that we can do better than this and that we can and must do much better than this. And that he has a plan to do it. Which is why you should vote for him. He balanced realism with a positive vision for the future.

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