2007-08-31 09:21:51 · 13 answers · asked by nativexile 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
dws...you're mad! Know e-x-a-c-t-l-y what you mean, though!
2007-08-31 21:22:13 · update #1
No, but Winston Churchill knew how to use propaganda intelligently and effectively. He also knew when it was time to be honest and when to shut up.
I have to say I remember his funeral better than I remember Diana's. It was a momentous occasion on TV at time when many still didn't have one.
I was a child at the time, but you were aware a great man had died.
Whilst I respect that Diana produced 2 children, who should be allowed to mourn their mother, I do hope in twenty years time we don't have to go through this over sentimental idolatry again.
2007-09-01 00:47:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No he didn't, and yes he did a lot more than Diana.
But I just remind myself who today was really for - her two sons who were too young to have a say in any of the arrangements, etc. for her funeral and wanted to do something that was THEIR memorial to their mum. That she was possibly the most famous (or in some cases, infamous) person in the world at the time and that there are still loads of people jumping on the Diana gravy train, as well as lots of well-meaning "ordinary" people who still miss her persona, are merely side-bars to the fact that two sons want to remember their mum, their way.
Many people who lose their parent whilst young will go back and do something later in life to honour that parent or remember them. Because of who their mum was and who they are, William and Harry are doing this in the full glare of the media and the entire world but it is for them and I can understand that, even though I'm no great fan of Diana.
2007-08-31 13:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Cynical Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your missing the point. People who get glued to the TV don't dig Churchill. People who dig Diana do. Churchill did not look great in a Versace frock and date international playboys. If he did the tabloids might have chased him into an underpass and THEN people might have been glued to the TV 10 years after his death.
It's not about greatness..it's about perceived tragedy and glamour.
2007-08-31 11:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by dws2711 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sadly not, but I think he would have been mortified if we were.
The man didn't even want a statue put up of him when it was offered and we have to put up with a ridiculous water feature to remind us of a fringe-flicking media- manipulating sympathy seeker.
As regards the earlier comment about Brits being simpering windbags, I think you'll find that most of the simpering, weeping, clothe-tearing, over-the-top grief came from American tourists during her funeral and the memorial. Seen by close friends who are police and security. Awfully embarrassing apparently.
2007-09-01 02:13:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. Good answers.
But Diana was far from the first devious royal moron to manipulate public opinion. Think of the Duke of monmouth and Queen Caroline.
OK, men of Britain, long live the memory of Diana! and may all your wives behave like her!
2007-08-31 17:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course not....Dianna was a gorgeous blond who had every man in lust with her....heck, she could turn on Liberace and he's gay AND dead; and every woman envying her....who wouldn't want to leave the stuffy husband and the two kids and run off with international playboys and know she could return and be Queen of England whenever she wanted to?
Sir Winston was a wrinkled old man who standards of duty and honor were unreachable by most and thus resented by many and who merely, with his 3rd cousins Franklin Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur, saved the West.
No contest.
2007-09-01 05:50:12 · answer #6 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just stared you. The hype is sickening. I read today that most English questioned believed it was all real grief. I just wish they had asked us who had stayed at home or had gone to Scotland. They would have gotten a different answer
2007-08-31 12:32:08 · answer #7 · answered by Sandy K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't recall that he did. I'm sure I'd have watched a Memorial service for HIM!
Diana's Anniversary didn't have me even bothering to turn the TV on!
2007-08-31 09:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, although he was a great Briton,there was no media hype or manipulated "grief" as there was today, yes the demented woman is still manipulating the media.
2007-08-31 12:22:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think I know where you're coming from and the answer is no.
mass media emotionalism hadn't been invented then.
2007-08-31 10:42:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋