Would you Vote for HimBased on the Article

Claude Pepper

Who was he...

• Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) • Was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman

for left-liberalism and the elderly.• He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4,

1936, to January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until his death on May 30, 1989.

• In 2000, the United States Postal Service issued a 33¢ Distinguished Americans series postage stamp honoring Pepper.

Red Accusations and hoax "Redneck Speech" in 1950

1. Pepper had been part of an unsuccessful 1948 campaign to "dump Truman“ as the Democratic presidential nominee and George Smathershad been his manager and pupil.

2. Smathers broke with Pepper and ran against him in the Democratic primary (which at the time in Florida was tantamount to election, the Republican Party still being

in infancy there)3. The contest was extremely heated, and revolved around policy

issues, especially charges that Pepper represented the far left and was too supportive of Stalin.

How the Speech Came to Be

• Pepper's opponents circulated widely a 49-page booklet titled The Red Record of Senator Claude Pepper.[8]

• Part of American political lore is the Smathers "redneck speech," which Smathers reportedly delivered to a poorly educated audience.

• What you read is the speech. There is a suggestion that the campaign was a myth, but the whole thing followed Smatters until his death

The Power of Words in the Minds of the Ignorant

•Shameless extrovert

•Outgoing person•gregarious

•Nepotism with his sister-in-law

•To bestow favors on a relative ie a job

•thespian

•actor

•homosapien

•Human Being

•matriculated

•Enrolled in a college where men and women did the same

•celibacy

•celibacy

•Abstain from sex

•Masticating in public

•To chew

•autodidact

•Self-taught person

Smear campaign•a plan to discredit a public figure by making false or dubious accusations.

What can We Learn from This?

How does this tie into

Why English?

Now You Try it•Create a smear campaign against one of your favorite cafeteria meals.

•For example....chicken casserole, hot rolls with butter, green beans, etc. (or a meal that is your fav)