The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
According to B.V. Narasimhaswami, a posthumous follower who was widely praised as Sai Baba's "apostle", this attitude was prevalent up to 1954 even among some of his devotees in Shirdi.
He's managed to tout slavery ("it had it's merits"), praise MLK assassin James Earl Ray ("a posthumous medal of honor"), brand the predominantly black player dominated NFL a thug league ("looks like a game between the Crips and the Bloods"), slander Jesse Jackson ("pictures of wanted criminals look like him") and ridicule the NAACP ("get a liquor store and practice robberies").
To listen to: Osama bin Laden's posthumous audio recording, released by Al Qaeda, in which he praises the Arab Spring, saying, "I believe that the winds of change will envelope the entire Muslim world".
Her brother Henry Austen published, as the preface to the posthumous edition of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, a biographical note that praised her modesty and her financial disinterestedness.
However, TV Guide's Matt Roush very much praised the episode for "weaving flashbacks that appeared to be posthumous but really weren't while providing clever new angles on classic Lost moments from previous seasons", Roush went on to say that "Exposé" was "a welcome reminder that sometimes these producers really do seem to know what they're doing after all".
The posthumous reassessments echo earlier commentary: he is hailed as a musical genius and praised for the beauty and sensitivity of his playing while simultaneously criticized for his brutal treatment of women, his rude and exploitative behavior, his "anger" toward whites or his "selling out" to the forces of pop music.
Henri de Boulainvilliers, in his posthumous essays of 1732 on the nobility of France, had even developed a wholly fraudulent but widely praised theory of noble racial superiority.
For all the posthumous criticism of Mr. Descoings, he was admired by students and fellow academics, and there is still a great deal of praise for him.
Masato Nakae (posthumous), Shinyei Nakamine (posthumous), William Nakamura (posthumous), Joe Nishimoto (posthumous), Allan Ohata, Yukio Okutsu, Frank Ono (posthumous), Kazuo Otani (posthumous), George Sakato, Ted Tanouye (posthumous) and Francis Wai (posthumous).
