Sunday, November 23, 2014

The Unforgettable Marion Barry

Marion Barry has passed away

Flashback to the 2009 profile of Mayor Barry by Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard

Labash has written a brief remembrance following Barry's death. An excerpt:

Marion Barry helped me more than I ever did him. For he reminded me that if you give a man a say when he is willing to talk, he’s bound to tell you something interesting. Though he was accused of many things—and was probably guilty of at least three-fourths of them—being uninteresting was never one of them. And on his best days, Barry might have even found something approximating a state of grace.

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