(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Notebook #64: But I do remember this... [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-17 Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! Elon’s Twitter is so filled with misinformation that anyone can simply write anything on there and people will eat. It. Up. Case in point: This graphic: Oy. Watergate? Many GenXers weren’t even born when the events known as Watergate happened. Many more GenXers were born but were too young to remember it. I am a GenXer old enough to remember Watergate, I have a very vivid memory of watching Barbara Jordan’s speech during the impeachment hearings. I remember some of the hearings. I remember various relatives discussing “the tapes.” Most significantly, I remember my mother complaining that the Watergate hearings interrupted her ‘stories.” Now, yes, Mom was at work during the day and there was a small TV in her break room where she could, occasionally, watch soap operas on her lunch period. Usually, though, she listened to her favorite soap operas on a “TV-Radio”; basically a radio that could get TV reception without pictures. I remember Watergate. I even remember parts of it as a “pivotal moment” but not like the Challenger crash or...well, I really don’t remember too much about the Reagan assassination attempt but I do remember one event that’s hardly ever mentioned that most GenXers will remember (if they were allowed to stay up that night). I’m a football fan. I was so much of a football fan that even as a kid I was allowed to stay up late on Monday nights to watch Monday Night Football. I remember the announcement by Howard Cosell the night of December 8, 1980. I don’t think that what Cosell said quite registered to me, to be honest. I knew who John Lennon was. I knew about the Beatles, even though they were not on any type of regular music rotation in my home; I did know some Beatles songs, though. And, of course, I knew “Imagine.” After the game, I was allowed to stay up watching the local news and then NIghtline. It was a late night/early morning for me; I don’t think I went to bed until 2 or 3 that morning.It was on all the channels, even the CBC. Everyone was sad and in shock and I was too...I mean, John Lennon!! The world seemed like...a less safer place after that. Lennon’s murder has always been more “pivotal” to me than the attempt on Reagan’s life, to be honest. It’s so tied up with very specific memories of my early teenage years; of a world where I would no longer be cocooned and feel safe and protected. Comments below the fold. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/17/2153610/-Top-Comments-Notebook-64-But-I-do-remember-this Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/