Alistair Cooke Predicts America's Decline In 1973

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Alistair Cooke Predicts America's Decline In 1973

John T. Smith

Published on Feb 7, 2013

Alfred Alistair Cooke (20 November 1908 -- 30 March 2004) was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster.[1] Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

[pansypoo53219]

1. i always liked him.

[markpkessinger]

2. Although SOME of what he says rings true . . .

. . . Much of it could just as easily be employed to bolster right-wing talking points. Frankly, I tuned out the second he described government as "Big Daddy," and equated welfare programs for the poor to government subsidized airlines.

Also, his statement about "freakishness in the arts masquerading as originality" is the kind of regressive thinking any Democrat should find abhorrent.