Must see TV, for those of you in later time zones. Don't miss 60 Minutes.

[anarchy1999]

All of it. Hard-hitting. I believe it was Jon's finest in the last two weeks and Andy Rooney follows up with the most hard hitting commentary I've ever seen him do.

The first part about Emmit will break you heart. I only hope it will move many to action.

[dave502d]

1. Seen it

[Spazito]

2. Thanks, will catch it when it hits here, love Jon Stewart, he is one of...

rare few who tell the unvarnished truth to the American public, imo.

[oscar111]

3. what was it about?

i need to know to decide to see it.

pls be sure to put content in things, so folks will have a basis for decisions. Like, those titles of posts i see that are "wow, see this!" type... i skip because they have no content in the title.

just friendly constructive criticism, not meant as a hard slam, ol boy.

Keep posting!

[PDittie]

4. Emmitt Till, 14 year old

who was lynched in MS in 1955 for whistling at a white woman. The two men who were tried for his murder were acquitted after about an hour by an all-white jury.

A few months later they were paid for an interview by a magazine in which they admitted they killed him.

The Justice Department is re-opening the case.

[Wickerman]

6. The Death of Emmitt Till

Bob Dylan, 1963

"Twas down in Mississippi no so long ago,
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door.
This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well,
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till.

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up.
They said they had a reason, but I can't remember what.
They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat.
There was screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street.

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain.
The reason that they killed him there, and I'm sure it ain't no lie,
Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die.

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial,
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till.
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime,
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind.

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs.
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free,
While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea.

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that's so unjust,
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt, your mind is filled with dust.
Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow,
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan.
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give,
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live.



Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

[anarchy1999]

5. When I say catch something, pay attention.

Thanks. Jon Stewart has been on many programs this last week. I suggested this was one of his best, IMHO. Don't miss it.

Andy Rooney, I've been priviliged to watch for years. I've never seen him do what I saw him do tonight.

Enough said. I always respect my elders.

on edit:
I'd just like to add a new word, "idgit". That's it for me. That's what I call smart people that come across as not very smart, to me.

Sorry, and please, I'm not calling you, personally, an "idgit".