"The Bird And The Wolf"

It was at a dinner party in the early 90's for the NBC owned stations to celebrate the production of a Television series that MGM financed and distributed entitled Group One Medical. One of the Executive producers of the program spoke after dinner and related what he referred to as a "fable with a moral", and not a joke.

He was a brilliant raconteur, and while I love the entire story, I will only relate the "important parts" of his "fable".

"A bird, exhausted and freezing to death falls to the ground with no energy to go on. A peasant stops his oxen cart and picks up the dying bird and while compassionate, he does not know what to do for the bird. At the same moment, his ox deposits a steaming pile of dung, and the peasant gently places the bird on top of the dung, and resumes his journey.

The bird realizes that the heat from the dung will energize it and begins to merrily chirp and sing in happiness and joy.

Hidden from view is a starving wolf, which hears the bird singing and pounces upon the bird and swallows it in one mighty gulp.

That is the end of the story, yet there are three lessons to be learned from this tale.

1. Someone who puts you in dung does not necessarily mean you harm

2. Someone who removes you from dung does not necessarily mean you well

3. And most important of all. If you find yourself in dung, BE QUIET ABOUT IT."

Here is the contemporary lesson that Democrats should learn from last- nights election results. Of course, "poetic license" is helpful, if not required.

1. They have been in electoral "dung" for many years

2. They should be encouraged about possibly being removed from "Dung"

3. It will serve them well IF THEY ARE QUIET ABOUT IT!

Now is the time for the Dem's to be discrete about what is going on and let the administration self-destruct.

They should speak out about issues, and they should speak out against THE WAR.

What they should not do is bask in the glow of a couple relatively meaningless elections.

Norman Horowitz

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