Re “In Defense of Herb Wesson”
There always is room for one more sweet person in the world. I would estimate Basil Kimbrew, whom I never have met, is among the perfumed pundits whose observations mandatorily are thickly lined with 4,000-calorie pieces of pastry while truth is reduced to runt-sized insects.
That is called balance.
Except for dreaded Republicans, ain’t no bad or even imperfect people out there in in Mr. Kimbrew’s dodderingly tilted world.
His nearby editorial, prepared without insight, aforethought or a speck of astuteness, was constructed from the leftover truffles Dr. Seuss writes about.
Mr. Kimbrew’s thought-free defense of Herb Wesson’s ill-advised remarks before a group of black Baptist ministers could have been written a few years ago by Mr. Wesson’s mother or his first girlfriend.
Golly gee.
Mr. Wesson should invite Mr. Kimbrew, who writes like one of the rides at Disneyland, to eulogize him 45 or 50 years from this afternoon without editing a single term.
It was sweet of Mr. Kimbrew to instinctively – emphasis on the syllable stink – shield his friend from the grownups on the Los Angeles City Council.
Perhaps he sees Mr. Wesson at church services each Sunday. Isn’t that nice? What does that have to do with months of strongly questionable – do I hear sneaky? – behavior since he became President of the City Council last winter?
What does Mr. Kimbrew know about what Mr. Wesson, behind walls, did to the districts of the only other black members of the Council, Bernard Parks and Jan Perry?
Was he too busy memorizing Dr. Seuss?
The naive Mr. Kimbrew writes as if he doesn’t know Mr. Parks from Parks and Rec. He would not recognize the distinctions between Jan Perry and Katy Perry.
One More Try
I contacted Mr. Wesson’s office. The Councilman, congenial and accessible in previous times, is mightily unavailable these stormy days. His crack deputy Ed Johnson said Mr. Wesson, who comments on all, living and dead, would not be commenting on the present matter, uh, because litigation is involved.
Got that, Mr. Kimbrew?
