The "Surprise" Pulitzer
by Eric Blair (copyright 4/14/98)

    Well, it is April 14th of 1998, and a first-time author has just won the Pulitzer (associated with Columbia University, in
case you wondered who gave it away) for the biography of her life.
     Her name is Graham.
    A "wife and mother" for twenty-five years, she suddenly found herself in charge of her husband’s business.  (His
manic-depression had destroyed his ability to run the shop.)  In the succeeding thirty years, she built it into one of the most
powerful newspapers in the world.  The paper?  The Washington Post.
     Ms. Graham has said publicly that she "brought a lot of female baggage to the task, and had to shed it to perform her
duties." But, one item of female baggage she did not shed was the feminine essence that permeates liberalism – the belief that
government is a maternal thing, and that citizens are children who must be instructed on how to live.
     (The Washington Post found one FBI file in the Nixon White House intolerable.  It isn’t bothered much by nine hundred
FBI files in the Clinton White House.  The list of other hypocrisies is endless.)
     Along with the New York Times, Ms. Graham’s newspaper has done more to damage this country’s basic traditional
value systems, more to encourage the self-serving existentialism of the Left, more to trap the disadvantaged into federal
charity traps like welfare, than Karl Marx could have done had he been named dictator for life of America.
     And, this women’s ideas, codified in her one and only book, have been judged as representing the pinnacle of what
American literature is all about.
     It is fair to ask how this could happen, perhaps even why.
     The reason for both is the same.
     As I have pointed out in editorial columns previously, America’s literature is dominated by the Left.  It is a sickness that
has contributed to the steady, incremental decline of every basic right and responsibility chartered into our political structure
by the founding fathers.  (What we have now are "funding" fathers.)
     Very well known authors have laughed at me when I said that JFK’s father, and his friends, bought him a Pulitzer to aid
him on the way to the presidency.  Just that fact, however doesn’t explain Ms. Graham’s Pulitzer.  I have no idea if The
Washington Post has ever contributed a dime to the foundation that grants this "prestigious" award.  But, I have no doubt that
those who travel in the same liberal circle with Ms. Graham have done so.
     (Liberals, unlike Conservatives, completely understand the value of financially supporting those arts that promulgate their
political beliefs.  Even Progressives who have never  read The Communist Manifesto understand the importance of gaining
control of the means of distribution of ideas – education, the press and both the literary and graphic arts.)
     No, it wasn’t money that earned Ms. Graham her Pulitzer, no matter how many millions her friends, or even her own
company, may have contributed to Columbia University, the Pulitzer foundation or related groups.  In the end, her Pulitzer is
like a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hollywood’s Oscar committee.
     It was given to her for decades of dedication to Liberalism
     How can I say this, when I have never even seen a copy of her book?
     First, because I have seen reviews by the people who have read it, and know from long experience who they are and
what they believe.  Second, because one can be sure of the philosophical content of a work by Hitler.  Deeds are the
blossoms of the philosophy.  Third, because reading one liberal is enough.  After being sprayed by a skunk , my dog no
longer paws at black animals with white stripes.
     You actually can tell some books by their cover.
     Ms. Graham has been the cover girl for Liberalism in America for thirty years.

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