LETTER FROM BARBRA STREISAND TO MATT DRUDGE, THE DRUDGE REPORT

Matt,

Thank
you for directing your readers to my Truth Alert on the misspelled
words matter. In regards to the Julius Caesar quote, that was
called to my attention last night. I’m putting a Truth Alert about
that on my website, too. But it doesn’t detract from the fact
that the words themselves are powerful and true and beautifully
written. Whoever wrote this is damn talented and should be writing
their own play.

Here
are two other quotes that impress me, and I’ve thoroughly checked
out their authenticity so I don’t buy into another terrific but
internet-generated statement.

“THOSE
WHO MAKE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION IMPOSSIBLE WILL MAKE VIOLENT REVOLUTION
INEVITABLE” John F. Kennedy

“TO
ANNOUNCE THAT THERE MUST BE NO CRITICISM OF THE PRESIDENT, OR
THAT WE ARE TO STAND BY THE PRESIDENT, RIGHT OR WRONG, IS NOT
ONLY UNPATRIOTIC AND SERVILE, BUT IS MORALLY TREASONABLE TO THE
AMERICAN PUBLIC.” Theodore Roosevelt

The
full context of that one (an article Theodore Roosevelt wrote
for the Kansas City Star during World War I) is just as fascinating,
by the way, and I’m including it below in case you have time to
read it:

“The
President is merely the most important among a large number of
public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to
the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct,
his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able and disinterested
service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary
that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his
acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him
when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other
attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.”

It
then incorporates the passage I mentioned above and concludes
with:

“Nothing
but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But
it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant,
about him than about any one else.”

Barbra
Streisand