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Dare not Speak the Name

December 13th, 2004 by Talboito

Ed Kilgore doesn’t want to change his name just because some guy in the Virginia GOP is a jerk.

Anyway, Kilgore was Ed’s name first. As this anecdote attests, that is the important thing:

It kinda reminds me of an incident back in the McCarthy era, when some Republican Congressman arose on the House floor to demand that the Cincinnati Reds baseball team change its name to avoid association with Godless Communism. One of the Reds’ players (doubtless with a jaw full of Red Man to clinch the point) quickly responded: “Let the Communists change their name. We had it first.”

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