On A Totally Stupid Article Against Harvey Milk

I found this article about Harvey Milk which is basically the author bitching and making things up about Harvey Milk probably because he hates the fact a gay guy is going to have a day recognized after him.

I am no great scholar of the life and career of Harvey Milk but what I find really offensive in this article was to downplay Milk's accomplishes by stating he only served in office for a year. This would be like saying JFK was a horrible president because he didn't finish his term.

The quote in context

Milk makes a rather unremarkable subject for the silver screen. In his seven years in San Francisco, he made four bids for elective office, only emerging victorious in his last—a 1977 run for city supervisor. For his persistence, Milk jokingly referred to himself as the “gay Harold Stassen.” He served for less than a year. In naming the onetime camera-shop proprietor one of the 100 most important people of the twentieth century, Time conceded, “As a supervisor, Milk sponsored only two laws—predictably, one barring anti-gay discrimination, and, less so, a law forcing dog owners to clean pets’ messes from sidewalks.” Eleven months on the city council hardly seems the stuff of Hollywood legend. So Hollywood invented a legend.

By trying to downplay Milk's contributions he made in his life by insinuating that Milk was unsuccessful because he did not even serve a year is blatantly dishonest and it illustrates that no one should take him to seriously.