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WWII Vet Declines Private Meeting with Obama on D-Day Anniversary
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Originally posted by Darth Executor View PostAren't you an owner now? You could fix this problem so we can all say what we really feel.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostAnd yes I know that word is against our decorum
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostIs that an invitation? I'll take it!
The reason it resonated, CP, is because you suck up every conspiracy theory from Benghazi to Bergdahl, put up by every right wing fringe media source you can find. Ya know, like National Review. Now the recent Bergdahl prisoner swap in which five hardened partisan flacks commissioned stories from every hack writer they could find is rubbing a lot of the military veterans attending D-Day events the wrong way.
Why just last week, while talking to a group of unnamed WWII veterans I'm almost certain to be making up for the purpose of inserting a quote nobody can check, one told me, sadly, “It’s not that we don’t want to respect your dad, CP. It’s just that his reading material makes it so hard to do so.”
*smirk*Last edited by Sparko; 06-06-2014, 01:49 PM.
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostSpeaking of which, one of Buckley's more successful recruits has recently weighed in on the Bergdahl swap. This is David Brooks, the conservative half of Brooks and Shields, a writer recruited very publicly by Buckley while he was still in college, based on a satire he'd just had published in one of the campus rags. According to Brooks, Buckley, speaking on campus to a large crowd, asked who wrote that piece, because he wanted to give him a job.
Anyway, here's the piece.
President Obama Was Right
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostIs that an invitation? I'll take it!
The reason it resonated, CP, is because you suck up every conspiracy theory from Benghazi to Bergdahl,
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostWhat are you reading now, Z?
I actually don't read as much as you might think, or as much as I probably should. I check Fox and Townhall occasionally, but I really don't read much in terms of news. It's all just so dadgum repetitive and disheartening.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostNational Review is a decidedly conservative publication, and makes no bones about it. Unlike much of the MSM, they tell you EXACTLY who they are and what their agenda is.
But, BECAUSE of who they are, anything they print must necessarily be untrue.
Still, I'm curious what lao tzu would recommend as alternate sources of news.
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostSpeaking of which, one of Buckley's more successful recruits has recently weighed in on the Bergdahl swap. This is David Brooks, the conservative half of Brooks and Shields, a writer recruited very publicly by Buckley while he was still in college, based on a satire he'd just had published in one of the campus rags. According to Brooks, Buckley, speaking on campus to a large crowd, asked who wrote that piece, because he wanted to give him a job.
Anyway, here's the piece.
President Obama Was Right
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostI'm curious to see you answer rogue's question. I'd also be curious to hear more about your issues with National Review (I don't really know anything about it).
But, BECAUSE of who they are, anything they print must necessarily be untrue.
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Originally posted by Spartacus View PostHeard a joke once where William F. Buckley's experience of purgatory was being forced to read every modern issue of NR, cover-to-cover, until the quality of the publication improved.
Anyway, here's the piece.
President Obama Was Right
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostIs that an invitation? I'll take it!
The reason it resonated, CP, is because you suck up every conspiracy theory from Benghazi to Bergdahl, put up by every right wing fringe media source you can find. Ya know, like National Review. Now the recent Bergdahl prisoner swap in which five hardened partisan flacks commissioned stories from every hack writer they could find is rubbing a lot of the military veterans attending D-Day events the wrong way.
Why just last week, while talking to a group of unnamed WWII veterans I'm almost certain to be making up for the purpose of inserting a quote nobody can check, one told me, sadly, “It’s not that we don’t want to respect your dad, CP. It’s just that his reading material makes it so hard to do so.”
*smirk*
Just to satisfy my curiosity: what news sources would you personally recommend?
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostThe reason it resonated, Jesse, is because I just spent a week with my Dad, who is also a WWII vet. He expressed the very same sentiments as the last line of the OP.
Would you like to mock my father, too?
The reason it resonated, CP, is because you suck up every conspiracy theory from Benghazi to Bergdahl, put up by every right wing fringe media source you can find. Ya know, like National Review. Now the recent Bergdahl prisoner swap in which five hardened partisan flacks commissioned stories from every hack writer they could find is rubbing a lot of the military veterans attending D-Day events the wrong way.
Why just last week, while talking to a group of unnamed WWII veterans I'm almost certain to be making up for the purpose of inserting a quote nobody can check, one told me, sadly, “It’s not that we don’t want to respect your dad, CP. It’s just that his reading material makes it so hard to do so.”
*smirk*
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Originally posted by lao tzu View PostNational Review. Seriously. National Review.
Y'all do this to yourselves.
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