CBS exec’s comments on Palestinian self-government have long American pedigree

by on February 27, 2009 2

Jeff Ballabon, lately appointed a CBS vice president for communications, writing a few months ago:

Palestinians simply are not interested in or
ready for the creation of a state.

Stephen Douglas, the Democratic senator, speaking in Jonesboro, Illinois, in September 1858:

I do not believe that the Almighty made the negro capable of self-government.

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  1. TGGP says:
    February 27, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Douglas' real error was in assuming that anyone is capable of "self-government" if that is taken to mean governance of people other than themselves, which is precisely what a democracy is.

  2. TGGP says:
    February 28, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    For more on how short most people fall from being capable of democratic self-governance see here.

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