Unfortunately right on target for the msm.

Can we question their patriotism now?

Do you think Google will notice this video?

It was done last year, but remains spot on.

For the record, this was produced last year, and it's still on target. The media still engages in the same behaviors, and would find fault with any military action, no matter how righteous. They would still seek out insurgents, terrorists, and enemies to embed. They would still run their agitprop for them.

In to the breach.

I remember this one from a year ago.

Thanks Kindly for the h/t Charles.

They nailed the shameful American media exactly.

Too bad the "studio anchor" was so monotone.

But...but...we're citizens of the world!

Omaha Beach? I thought Iowa was land-locked?
/Obama mode off.

re: #8 a marine mom

I was thinking the same thing.

We'd all be speaking German or Japanese if these twits had been around back then.

My Dad was in the Eighth Air Force. He hates Bush because The New York Times says he must. I haven't the heart to ask him how he didn't manage to kill one French baby.

re: #10 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Omaha Beach? I thought Iowa was land-locked?
/Obama mode off.

ROFLMAO!

Ronald Reagan's 40th Anniversary of D-Day speech 1 of 2

Ronald Reagan's 40th Anniversary of D-Day speech 2 of 2

The professor was classic.

In the word of my generation, this is some serious lulz. So sad but true.

Not negative enough. No photos of bodies of French people killed in the crossfire. No interviews with frightened French people cowering in their homes at the sound of the naval bombardment--"Mais oui, things weren't so bad under the occupation...and les Allemands were taking care of our Jewish problem for us."

I thought the "retired General" giving his opinion was a good touch.

156,000 made it on shore - WOW - Americans are Exceptional!

Curses and fe fi fo, to evil's enablers on the left.

I want one leftist to tell me: Who is charged with taking on the bullies of the world?

One could only imagine the msm frenzy in the month after D-Day when allied armies could not break out of the hedgerows of Normandy and were taking ghastly casualties.

Well done satire. Unfortunately if that was now I don't think it would be much of one.

/got tired of CNN during "Desert Shield"

looftwaff It's looft waffa (luftwaffe)

Pretty good stuff, but, yeah, the studio gal was a little blase.

re: #21 DistantThunder

True but let's not forget the Canadians and the Brits, they were right in the thick of it with us then.

re: #10 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Heh don't forget Utah...

Thanks for this little gem Thanos and Charles. Reminds me why I don't watch network news any more. Happy weekend all.

re: #21 DistantThunder

I want one leftist to tell me: Who is charged with taking on the bullies of the world?

There are no bullies; they are just misunderstood. I'm sure with dialog we can all get a long.

re: #26 Abu Kuffar

Heh don't forget Utah...

Oh, thats just a bunch of Mormons

The video should have ended with the tide turning, and the network switching to some terrible auto accident in Louisiana - anything but the victory on the beaches.

And how does this affect the Muslims and the Palestine issue?

re: #13 chinesearithmetic

My Dad was in the Eighth Air Force. He hates Bush because The New York Times says he must. I haven't the heart to ask him how he didn't manage to kill one French baby.

Ask you dad, if he was president, and reports continued to cross his desk that Saddam was murdering 10's of thousands of women, children, and his political enemies. In one grave alone 98 children were found having been buried alive without bullets in thier bodies. Pregnant women are in these mass graves with a single bullet to the head. They were forced to kneel down at the side of the grave, and wait for their turn to be executed. One mass grave was 75% women and children, and the graves were all dug with backloaders - very professional.

What would he do as president? 300 thousand people were killed this way - tortured, executed. Saddam got 5000 in one day with a cyanide al fresca deal. 10,000 more were seriously injured by the poison gas in one day.

Now that's genocidal efficiency. I don't understand the mindset of people who think we shouldn't act.

I think the US should consistently take on more genocidal monsters so that after a while, the new monsters think: "Hey, I don't want the US after me."

re: #6 Thanos

Thanos - Good find! What I always see as the worst thing the MSM does, which they've neglected here, is putting up photos that are falsely described, faux or other lies and then featuring "civilians" harmed or killed in the battle. This video only scratches the surface with a macro parody... they need to do one of the immensely damaging micro (remember wag the dog?).

A short post for my remembrance and gratitude to those who fought. Many of us would not exist, myself included, if they had not fought and won. And none of us would be free. None.

re: #30 auldtrafford

The video should have ended with the tide turning, and the network switching to some terrible auto accident in Louisiana - anything but the victory on the beaches.

They needed to interview a mother whose son was on the beach, and ask her how she's feeling? Do you think you'll see your son ever again?

Meet Barack Obama dot Com has launched and McCain has a new ad out, the real political season is now on.

I was talking to my buddy Bill last night. Bill claims to have served with the American army in Vietnam.

I, of course, know this to be a lie.

In thirty years I've not seen Bill lop off a single ear, nose, limb or head.

Heck, I don't even recall seeing the guy kill so much as one baby.

And he can't even pronounce Kengis Khan.

So he must be a liar.

The only thing missing was a fat old retired Marine captain calling our servicemen cold blooded killers and demanding courts martial for the entire chain of command.

re: #39 Ciannaky

The only thing missing was a fat old retired Marine captain calling our servicemen cold blooded killers and demanding courts martial for the entire chain of command.

That came after the landings

re: #12 MandyManners

We'd all be speaking German or Japanese if these twits had been around back then.

Some of us wouldn't be speaking.

Come to think of it, there was a lot of isolationism back in the 1930s. FDR ignored it and helped England anyway.

D-Day : Lack of perfection doesn't negate the validity of the mission

Calling it a failure and blaming the President before its over. . .

That pretty much sums it up.

OT Where is BabbaZee?

Thanks all, but way back another Lizard did post this in spinoffs or just comments when it originally appeared, it's just topical since today is the anniversary of D-Day.

The sad thing is if we had then the attitudes prevalent now, we would have lost the war and tyranny (one part of it) would have triumphed.
What the hell happened to us?

re: #45 Sunlight

She's not feeling well and is spending most of her time working on her own blog.

re: #42 Iron Fist

,

He clearly never got his magic CIA hat. If he had, he'd have that hat to this day.

Yeah. All the poor sap managed to bring back is a permanent disability.

re: #3 Athos

Do you think Google will notice this video?

It was done last year, but remains spot on.

Speaking of Google, who do you think they're commemerating on the page?

They also would have claimed that Obama landed on the beach having walked in on the water.

Ok maybe that claim would have only been made on MSNBC.

The Professor was Berkeley, CA! Nice touch.

re: #40 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Oh, right. Forgot about the Massacre of Carentan.

Posted this earlier, the video tour is pretty moving.

American Battle Monument Commission

Sadly today we have few people with real leadership abilities. So we are bombarded with the Baracks and Hillerys.

re: #53 MJ

The Professor was Berkeley, CA! Nice touch.

Make that -The Professor was from Berkeley, CA.

I thought the headline said-
D-Day: Crisis On Obama

...and I was happy.

re: #47 Joan Not of Arc

With today's media we would have surrendered in 1942.

re: #60 buzzsawmonkey

And all those oil spills from torpedoed tankers.

re: #60 buzzsawmonkey

You forget bomb disposal. 60 years later.

They should have topped it all off with a PNN embed riding along with some German "freedom fighters" targeting and succeeding in killing American boys in the hedgerows.

OT...this will make your blood boil, our ROP friend in Charlotte.

In an e-mail sent to FOX News, Khan lashed out at the "arrogance" of the media, saying it should focus instead on converting to Islam. "When you go down in to the earth six feet deep, nothing will matter except what Religion you died upon," he wrote.

Following a FOXNews.com report last month profiling his Web site, Khan railed against "the Kuffaar" — non-believers — who wrote the article and affirmed his belief that jihad is "an Islaamic obligation" rooted in Muslim texts.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

This guy really pisses my off.

re: #47 Joan Not of Arc

The sad thing is if we had then the attitudes prevalent now, we would have lost the war and tyranny (one part of it) would have triumphed. What the hell happened to us?

Thankfully there are still brave & inspirational Americans like Ross McGinnis

re: #49 JHW

I miss her here.

re: #60 buzzsawmonkey

They forgot to have someone moaning about the environmental impact on the beach and the farmland behind it; the pollution, the problem of body disposal, the destruction of rare wildlife habitat, and the carbon footprint.

You could add that they would have had someone moaning about how we're fighting the war for the Jews...

re: #58 MJ

I think you were right the first time.

Loved the photos of the landing spots and little arrows showing planned troop movements along with the code names for the landing sites scrolling across the bottom. Giving away military secrets in the name of "freedom of the press."

Sickening but true.

re: #62 taxfreekiller

Must not have seen Paree. Oh, wait, that was WWI. You know, the war to end all wars.

How's that working out?

Roosevelt Lied! Troops Died!

Today's media would have leaked the preparations for the invasion and mentioned the 700 or soldiers killed during rehearsals. The result: our guys would have gone in with the Germans fully alerted and waiting.

Wait a minute - 10,000 troops died in one day? Where was the outrage?

re: #25 JHW

True but let's not forget the Canadians and the Brits, they were right in the thick of it with us then.

And the Brits brought Bagpipes...:)

Top Hizbullah commander captued in Iraq

Must be some mistake... he was clearly helping to deliver more of that Iranian good will Pelosi was talking about.

re: #79 Racer X

Wait a minute - 10,000 troops died in one day? Where was the outrage?

I said that to a Moonbat who was going off about Iraq.

He told me there was no comparison.

That is the mentality.

Breaking news: Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower has a girlfriend

Next Up: More on this 'other woman'

re: #82 loppyd

I said that to a Moonbat who was going off about Iraq.

He told me there was no comparison.

That is the mentality.

...and yet they'll never miss an opportunity to compare Iraq to Vietnam.

re: #61 DesertSage

I thought the headline said-
D-Day: Crisis On Obama

...and I was happy.

Same here.

re: #80 Dustyvet

I remember reading something about how in WW1 the Germans were terrified of the noise of the bagpipes and called the Scottish troops "Devils in Skirts".

re: #63 RedStateBlueCity

With today's media we would have surrendered in 1942.

Damn press!

Poor Ross McGinnis. So young. Even younger still to have some liberal twit dancing on his grave!

OT:

Everything, absolutely everything I touch today breaks.

How do I stop this?

This is very good, Charles. Thanks. I've posted it as well and will pass it on to others.

Life Magazine, January 7th, 1945

My fave part was when they said that we had taken Rome and THAT would put us into a perfect negotiating postiion with Hitler.

If only FDR didn't have some kind of personal vendetta against Hitler.

After all, Hitler didn't attack us! It was the Japanese. We should be utilizing ALL our forces to find him where ever he is and bring him to justice.

How freakin PERFECT was that? Spot on.

To all D-Day veterans, living or dead..

THANK YOU!

The free world owes you a debt that we can never hope to repay.

re: #88 vxbush

OT:

Everything, absolutely everything I touch today breaks.

How do I stop this?

Don't even think of relaxation via masturbation.

If the internet existed back then, and Kos was around, he would have had a diary from Charles Lindergh:

In a speech at an America First rally in Des Moines on September 11, 1941, entitled "Who Are the War Agitators?" Lindbergh claimed the three groups, "pressing this country toward war [are] the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt Administration" and said of Jewish groups, "Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastation." In the speech, he warned of the Jewish People's "large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government," and went on to say of Germany's Antisemitism, "No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany." Lindbergh declared, "I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire. But I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable from their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war. We cannot blame them for looking out for what they believe to be their own interests, but we also must look out for ours. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction."

Sounds just like the average KOS poster. Just substitute Zionist for Jew.

re: #92 razorbacker

Don't even think of relaxation via masturbation.

Uh, no. I'm at work.

re: #21 DistantThunder

156,000 made it on shore - WOW - Americans are Exceptional!

Curses and fe fi fo, to evil's enablers on the left.

I want one leftist to tell me: Who is charged with taking on the bullies of the world?

There won't be any bullies once all are equal and they have nothing to rebel against.

/moonbat

re: #96 buzzsawmonkey

But only briefly.

Dob't get short with me, Mr.

re: #93 MJ

Sounds like it did come straight from the mind of a KOS-kid... Amazing!

re: #88 vxbush

OT:

Everything, absolutely everything I touch today breaks.

How do I stop this?

Shake B-HO's hand.

re: #96 buzzsawmonkey

But only briefly.

I did not need that image.

Almost 70 years later we still have bases in Europe. Quagmire!

re: #47 Joan Not of Arc

The sad thing is if we had then the attitudes prevalent now, we would have lost the war and tyranny (one part of it) would have triumphed.
What the hell happened to us?

60 years of relative peace and prosperity and comfort unheard of in human history. One might well be amazed we've lasted this long. The lessons and ways of living that won us that peace and prosperity and comfort have been forgotten by many. It's the curse of successful republics.

re: #98 MJ

Dob't get short with me, Mr.

hey! What's up with all this wordplay thong and dance?

too weak

plus, where were the reporters embedded with the Germans ?

and film of dead babies, blown up milk factories, etc ?

a nice idea, sure - but not an accurate portrayal of the current media

Barack, Don't Go to Baghdad

Ignorance is Knowledge

One can only imagine what today's MSM would have done with the 70,000 or so US casualties suffered between 16 Dec 44 and mid-Jan 45 in Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France, and the intelligence failure that resulted in the Germans almost breaking through to Antwerp.

FDR would've had to cashier Eisenhower and let Montgomery take over.

(shudder)

re: #106 Adrenalyn

too weak

plus, where were the reporters embedded with the Germans ?

and film of dead babies, blown up milk factories, etc ?

a nice idea, sure - but not an accurate portrayal of the current media

and a "Geraldo" type embed
giving away the Allies' position
and strategery

re: #86 JHW

After the stock market closed yesterday, I felt rich.

Methinks I'll not look this evening. Ouch.

BBL.

Y'all have fun.

re: #79 Racer X

Wait a minute - 10,000 troops died in one day? Where was the outrage?

Indeed.

Also it's an interesting fact that Eisenhower wrote a letter to the President taking full responsibility should the landings fail. He gave it to an aide to be delivered only in that event.

Before the landings, Eisenhower had casualty estimates as high as 80,000 men, approximately half the forces scheduled to land on the beaches that day. He still went ahead with the landing. Talk about brass balls...

re: #106 Adrenalyn

too weak

plus, where were the reporters embedded with the Germans ?

and film of dead babies, blown up milk factories, etc ?

a nice idea, sure - but not an accurate portrayal of the current media

That's kinda what I thought too. Accurate, but a bit too subdued.

re: #84 Fat Jolly Penguin

...and yet they'll never miss an opportunity to compare Iraq to Vietnam.

So true!

Leave the Freiheitskämpfers alone!

re: #108 Prester John

A general too far.

re: #78 taxfreekiller

Hell, I think I'm a better Cognito than he is.

Too true. Scary ain't it. Maybe you missed your calling, you could have been an MSM stooge.

re: #95 vxbush

Uh, no. I'm at work.

You mean I should no longer do "it" at work?

re: #118 Truck Monkey

You mean I should no longer do "it" at work?

Okay, look, this isn't helping me here.

re: #110 Dustyvet

Excellent! Thanks, very appropriate.

re: #119 vxbush

Okay, look, this isn't helping me here.

lighting up the screening softwate, eh?

re: #119 vxbush

Okay, look, this isn't helping me here.

Or Michelles kids.

re: #119 vxbush

See if anyone wants to buy tickets to watch.

re: #102 Killgore Trout

Almost 70 years later we still have bases in Europe. Quagmire!

70 YEARS!

We must pull out of Europe...

YES WE CAN!

re: #104 Tigger2005

60 years of relative peace and prosperity and comfort unheard of in human history. One might well be amazed we've lasted this long. The lessons and ways of living that won us that peace and prosperity and comfort have been forgotten by many. It's the curse of successful republics.

Indeed.
Now, we've become so soft that we stopped caring that bullies and tyrants are all around us.

Syria squashes coup attempt

A coup plot against Syrian President Bashar al- Assad was quietly crushed without the world noticing, the German newspaper Die Welt was set to report Saturday, quoting German and "foreign" intelligence sources. It said Syria's military intelligence chief, Assef Shaukat, had plotted to seize power while Assad was hosting an Arab League meeting in Damascus in February. Shaukat, who is an in-law to the president, and 100 intelligence officers had been arrested.

Die Welt said Assad had been tipped off by Imad Mughniyah, a senior member of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon. Mughniyah was killed a few days later in a bomb blast on February 12 in Damascus.

The sources said it was possible that associates of Shaukat had assassinated him in revenge. Releasing the story Friday in advance of going to print, Die Welt said some of the plotters were allegedly linked to violent Islamist groups.

True or psy-ops?

#116
Quite.

re: #102 Killgore Trout

Almost 70 years later we still have bases in Europe. Quagmire!

70 YEARS TOMANY

re: #120 JHW

re: #81 Kenneth

Top Hizbullah commander captued in Iraq

Must be some mistake... he was clearly helping to deliver more of that Iranian good will Pelosi was talking about.

I'm waiting for a second source on that one, this news source seems odd.

re: #106 Adrenalyn

too weak

plus, where were the reporters embedded with the Germans ?

and film of dead babies, blown up milk factories, etc ?

a nice idea, sure - but not an accurate portrayal of the current media

Well, actually, there was "reporter" embedded with the Nazis. His name was Douglas Chandler and he wrote a glowing piece in 1937 about Berlin which was pro-Nazi . National Geographic published it. They didn't see any problem with it. Douglas Chandler remained in Germany and began broadcasting for Nazi radio.

More on Chandler here:
[Link: www.time.com...]

I remember WW-2, I learned it in school.

That was the war where the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor to defend the Japanese-Americans we had interned.

And the Germans gassed the Jews to protect the Palestinians.

re: #130 Thanos

I'm waiting for a second source on that one, this news source seems odd.

Nah.
Allied forces 'captue' Iranians all the time.

re: #132 arf

I remember WW-2, I learned it in school.

That was the war where the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor to defend the Japanese-Americans we had interned.

And the Germans gassed the Jews to protect the Palestinians.

Wait a minute, I thought Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Assef Shawkat under House arrest over Mughniyeh murder

Salute

A piece on Fox last night was about the exhibit at a Museum in Caen, France (normandy) showing, factually, what happened on 9-11 in New York. The French also still give out medals to honor the bravery of our troops that day. I guess all frogs aren't against us. Or, hate us.

FRANCE IS GERMAN FOR THE PHILIPINES!

/Moonbat bumpersticker from the 1940's

re: #132 arf

I remember WW-2, I learned it in school.

That was the war where the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor to defend the Japanese-Americans we had interned.

And the Germans gassed the Jews to protect the Palestinians.

Very good! I am so glad to see you haven't been brain-washed with all that patriotic, cowboy stuff they used to teach kids.

/

re: #132 arf

I remember WW-2, I learned it in school.

That was the war where the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor to defend the Japanese-Americans we had interned.

And the Germans gassed the Jews to protect the Palestinians.

I learned that violence doesn't solve anything and that everyone gets a trophy...

re: #135 taxfreekiller

In fact one of my first jobs outside the farm was at a newspaper.
Got caught by the county sheriff parking with the local newspaper owners daughter, sort of not well thought out, we had been in the local swimming pool at 2:00 and still had own our bare skin bathing suits and no more, and a bit wet. So they cooked up this deal to punish me without jail time,, so I had to work the hot room where his staff did the adds and the Linotype's were, that is some hot place in Texas in July, that little bit with that bunch of drunks was all I needed to know to stay the hell away from the press flunkies.

Trying to get your own "exclusive".

re: #139 Dirk Diggler

FRANCE IS GERMAN FOR THE PHILIPINES!

/Moonbat bumpersticker from the 1940's

Did 40's era moonbats have COEXIST bumper stickers with cute little swastikas for the "X"?

re: #137 littleO

Salute

A piece on Fox last night was about the exhibit at a Museum in Caen, France (normandy) showing, factually, what happened on 9-11 in New York. The French also still give out medals to honor the bravery of our troops that day. I guess all frogs aren't against us. Or, hate us.

Actually in that part of France they are almost more pro American than most people in America.

Kenneth,

Did 40's era moonbats have COEXIST bumper stickers with cute little swastikas for the "X"?

I was just about to write something similar. I was envisioning a rising sun for the O and a sickle for the C too.

re: #125 Joan Not of Arc

Indeed.
Now, we've become so soft that we stopped caring that bullies and tyrants are all around us.

Unfortunately, I think that applies to conservatives as well to some degree (and I certainly don't leave myself out of that), and especially to the people we elect to represent us. Such as the way they don't apply the full force of the law against traitors anymore, or even give them a slap on the wrist. It's this unwillingness to be tough and unyielding WITHIN the law that will lead to the breakdown of the law entirely.

That is, if we're not nuked into submission first.

re: #132 arf

I thought it was for Tojo's oil and the Germans were just freedom fighters against an illegal occupation of the Sudetenland.

re: #137 littleO

My cousin landed on Utah Beach as a member of the 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Inf. Div. He was a lifelong bachelor, and in the 70's and 80's started going to reunions in Normandy. Lo and behold, he met a French woman and after a few visits married her. She moved here with her daughter who was a drop-dead gorgeous woman. I teased him about being a bachelor for so long but told him he had great taste and knew how to pick them. He liked the French common people, especially the Normans.

re: #146 Dirk Diggler

GMTA!

re: #144 Kenneth

Did 40's era moonbats have COEXIST bumper stickers with cute little swastikas for the "X"?

And the O could have been a nice Japanese Rising Sun.

re: #146 Dirk Diggler

Kenneth,

I was just about to write something similar. I was envisioning a rising sun for the O and a sickle for the C too.

Ooo! And the fascist bundle for the "I"!

The draft of Eisenhower's failed D-Day statement.

Our landings have failed and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.

The legend is he had this document in his pocket when he meet with the airborne troops it was estimated airborne would suffer 80% casualties on D-Day.

re: #137 littleO

No they are not. I have found that it is primarily in the same elitist socialistic people who hold an anti-American viewpoint here in the States.

Get outside of most of the major cities, and the French people generally like Americans. I've been in Provence in August where village after village celebrates their liberation by American troops - and any American present is a defacto guest of honor.

My fear is that education there is not that different from education here in terms of teaching revisionist history. At some point those who remember those days and that they were liberated by Americans will die off and the revisionists will be more able to practice their trade.

OT

A small win...

Dems yank global warming bill

Apparently three days of debate was enough for what many senators called "the most important issue facing the planet."

With little chance of winning passage of a sweeping 500-page global warming bill, the Senate Democratic leadership is planning to yank the legislation after failing to achieve the 60-vote threshold needed to move the bill to the next stage. After a 48-36 vote on the climate change bill, the Senate is likely to move on to a separate energy debate next week.

re: #157 jcm

OT

A small win...

Dems yank global warming bill

wooo hooo!

re: #149 Ciannaky

I thought it was for Tojo's oil and the Germans were just freedom fighters against an illegal occupation of the Sudetenland.

People don't even realize how close we came to defeat.

Had Germany won in North Africa, they could have taken the Middle East. Taking the oil fields of the Caucusus would have been bad enough. And had the Japanese managed to cut off rubber supplies...

And it's several orders of magnitude more dangerous today. 15, 20 small nukes hidden in a cave somewhere (or more likely, spread out around the world) and a small group of crazies can dictate to the entire planet. There goes one U.S. city. There goes another U.S. city. Three. Four. Five. Do you know how many we have left?

Sure, we might obliterate the entire Islamic world in response, but there could be no victory.

That's why it's our job to educate. And get more conservatives into teaching positions.

re: #156 Athos

No they are not. I have found that it is primarily in the same elitist socialistic people who hold an anti-American viewpoint here in the States.

Get outside of most of the major cities, and the French people generally like Americans. I've been in Provence in August where village after village celebrates their liberation by American troops - and any American present is a defacto guest of honor.

My fear is that education there is not that different from education here in terms of teaching revisionist history. At some point those who remember those days and that they were liberated by Americans will die off and the revisionists will be more able to practice their trade.

Kenneth,

Here's another source on Iranian Hezbollah in Iraq, looks to be real.

[Link: www.defenselink.mil...]

WASHINGTON, June 6, 2008 – Coalition forces killed four enemy fighters and detained dozens of suspected terrorists in recent operations, military officials said.
The leader of an Iranian-backed “special group” surrendered to coalition forces today in Hayy, about 190 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces raided the presumed residence of the special group leader, who’s suspected of directing and ordering attacks against coalition forces in Wasit province, as well as attacks and kidnappings against civil authorities there. The man also is suspected of smuggling Iranian weapons -- specifically, Katyusha rockets -- into Baghdad.

In a separate operation in Hayy today, coalition forces raided the residence of another wanted special groups operative. The suspect attempted to flee, but coalition forces were able to track him, and he eventually surrendered.

In other news from Iraq, coalition forces captured 10 wanted men and 22 other suspects involved in al-Qaida in Iraq’s bombing networks in Mosul, Baghdad and the Tigris River valley yesterday and today.

American casualties- June 6, 1944

The breakdown of US casualties was 1465 dead, 3184 wounded, 1928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2000 casualties at Omaha Beach.

re: #24 WitchDoctor

Or in Barry terms, loose waffles

In "band of brothers" there's a scene where one of the soldiers allegedly shot up a bunch of Germans who had surrendered.

Imagine today, that would have been in the news daily until the war ended.

Or when the Americans found Dachau and just lined up the Germans and executed them. The press would have treated that worse than what the Germans did there.

In fact, considering that's exactly what the press did with Abu Ghraib.

re: #158 coquimbojoe

wooo hooo!

You'll love this one...
Gentle environmentalists frustrated by garden-nibbling wildlife; retaliate with brutal, shocking violence

#157, #158

Note, however, that one certain presumptive GOP presidential nominee would have voted with the Dems in favor of it.

We're screwed.

re: #134 Prester John

Wait a minute, I thought Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

You afraid to Google it?

The video was good, but it didn't really go far enough.

We would need some talking heads to be wringing their hands over collateral damage, loss of French antiquities and Art, destroyed French infrastructure, and civilian casualties.

We would need some PNN correspondent embedded with some SS Panzer group telling us how determined and undefeatable they are.

We would need some correspondent telling us how our 'boys' are young and inexperienced while the Germans are tough and experienced through 4 years of tough combat. How did our administration put them in this position would be the refrain.

We would also need some 'anchor' reading direct German propaganda without any qualification while at the same time questioning the veracity of everything the Pentagon says.

They should update their video to make it even more exemploary of the modern liberal MSM, but I hand it to them for an excellent job still.

That's WAY WAY WAY off.

If it were up to the modern New York Times they would have had an expose on June 4th detailing the allied plans, a report on how the allies used double agents and deception to make the Germans think the invasion was going to be at Calais, and editorials decrying the military's use of deception to trick the enemy.

re: #166 Prester John

#157, #158

Note, however, that one certain presumptive GOP presidential nominee would have voted with the Dems in favor of it.

We're screwed.

Someone needs to get McCain's ear and change his mind on this issue. People CAN change their minds!

Unless this is McCain's sop to the left and he'll forget about it once he gets into office. If so, I'd rather he be honest about it and educate people about how the dangers of global warming are exaggerated, about the fact that we don't really know how much human industrial activity is responsible for it or whether our efforts to stop it will make the least bit of difference, and about the global economic disaster the policies advocated by the global warming alarmists would bring.

re: #167 debutaunt

That was an allusion to Bluto's famous quote.

re: #88 vxbush

OT:

Everything, absolutely everything I touch today breaks.

How do I stop this?

Go back to bed. Start over!

JAFLW

re: #171 Prester John

That was an allusion to Bluto's famous quote.

Yes, and mine was to Rosie O'Donnel.

They were too pro American by today's standards. If they were going to embed reporters with the Allies the should have had had some with the German troops as well. If they were going to talk to an American PoliSci professor they should have given Goebbels equal air time.

A rather funny video.

Gasp: The Luftwaffe is conducting operations over the beachhead in FW-190's. Oh my—we're doomed...
They had TWO planes. TWO. The Allies had hundreds of planes.

My grandfather would have been waiting to get into a cargo plane, heavy machinegun at his side, parachute on his back, about this time 60 years ago...

Should not be able to get a degree in journalism until you have seen this once a week in every journalism and social studies class you take and can recite this word for word; plus produce a 10,000 word essay on how the news got it wrong.

re: #173 debutaunt

OK, you must forgive me for being more familiar with Bluto than with Rosie. This wasn't by any chance a reference to her famous "steel doesn't melt"?

re: #177 Prester John

OK, you must forgive me for being more familiar with Bluto than with Rosie. This wasn't by any chance a reference to her famous "steel doesn't melt"?

That's it. It's also tied in with all the boycott Google suggestions today.

I imagine that at this point noone is discussing the video above but, has anyone mentioned the "grim milestone" of D-Day?

How can anyone consider D-Day a success when over 5k American Soliders have died, and over a trillion Germans have been harmed. Not even to mention the negative affect our warmongering, and imperialism has had on the French people caught up in our mess. Haven't they suffered enough under the Nazis?...did the U.S. really have to make it worse? All of this for the beneift of International Jewry...no war for the Jooos!

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#170 Tigger

Someone needs to get McCain's ear and change his mind on this issue. People CAN change their minds!

Someone needs to get McCain's ear and change his mind on this issue. People CAN change their minds!

Unless this is McCain's sop to the left and he'll forget about it once he gets into office. If so, I'd rather he be honest about it and educate people about how the dangers of global warming are exaggerated, about the fact that we don't really know how much human industrial activity is responsible for it or whether our efforts to stop it will make the least bit of difference, and about the global economic disaster the policies advocated by the global warming alarmists would bring.

AMEN!

McCain will garner many more votes if he quits kissing the left's ass. It isn't working for him. The left couldn't care less. John, please wake up.

re: #168 azul93gt

Those poor misunderstood German boys were just trying to regain respect after the horrible humiliating Versailles Treaty. They are real heroes.

Where are the pictures of ambulances mistakenly hit with Allied rockets with brand new teddy bears scattered about? ("At this time, we are unsure whether the attack came from British Typhoon or American P-47 aircraft.")

re: #26 Abu Kuffar Utah? That's deep in "fly over country", isn't it? Who cares?
Tin foil hat firmly in place.
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re: #179 WrathofG-d

You forgot to mention how all the blood, oil, and assorted asbestos laden wreckage on the channel bottom and beaches adversely affected the local environment and wildlife, as well as effect the carbon emissions from the tanks/trucks/jeeps/bombers/fighters/cargo planes had on global climate change.

Oh, and don't forget all the air pollution caused by all those dang bombs and artillery rounds going off all over the place.

Disgraceful. Where was the EPA when we needed it?

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re: #155 jcm

Tom Sellick made a very nice little history tv piece about Eisenhower preparing for D-Day. I was really impressed with the way Sellick captured Ike's character. If you get a chance, be sure to see it.

re: #161 Thanos

excellent! thanks for the research. this isn't the first time Hezbollah personal have been found in Iraq.

This satire should give a little clarity to the reality of OIF, and where we actually are.

re: #184 Kenneth

Tom Sellick made a very nice little history tv piece about Eisenhower preparing for D-Day. I was really impressed with the way Sellick captured Ike's character. If you get a chance, be sure to see it.

Selleck has made some good stuff recently. The Ike piece was really good.
Check out his Jesse Stone movies and westerns from the last few years.

re: #187 jcm

He's on my watchable Hollywood list of non-moonbat actors. They are few & far between.

re: #188 Kenneth

He's on my watchable Hollywood list of non-moonbat actors. They are few & far between.

That's true.
Here's his recent stuff, IMHO very good stuff.
Jesse Stone TV movies (also executive producer & producer)

* Stone Cold (2005)
* Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)
* Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
* Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
* Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2008)

The Westerns
* Last Stand at Saber River (1997) (also executive producer)
* Crossfire Trail (2001) (also executive producer)
* Monte Walsh (2003) (also executive producer)

The Western's all have good values, while there is some gun play, not excessive.

The Jesse Stone character is flawed but honorable.

It's the stuff I go out of my way to buy because I think it's important to support the good stuff.

re: #86 JHW

Also sometimes known as "Ladies From Hell".

re: #190 Cpt. Disco

That's the quote I was looking for. I think there was also a book of that title.

re: #191 JHW

The book "Ladies From Hell" can be downloaded here in PDF format.

That may have been a parody but I was near tears all the way through it. Still am.

The facts involved and the eery perfection of the imitation is overwhelming.

Pearl Harbor was an inside job!

Overall, a very accurate parody except for one detail: they'd never be this negative under a Democrat President.

re: #194 greenmiler

Pearl Harbor was an inside job!

Damn Germans.

I am very late to the thread but I could not let this day pass without paying tribute to those that gave all so I could have the opportunity to thank them. A very BIG THANK YOU to those who have given all and to those who now sacrifice and have sacrificed since, to maintain my ability to do so. Thank You from the very bottom of my heart. You are witness to the world of the American Spirit and don't you forget that!

Very well done. Too bad I didn't see this last year. :(

*Salute*

Simply... Awesome... Er.. I mean a very good parody of our drive-by media's obsession with getting it WRONG !

My God bless ALL of those brave soldiers... We are eternally grateful...

re: #82 loppyd

I said that to a Moonbat who was going off about Iraq.

He told me there was no comparison.

That is the mentality.

...and yet they'll never miss an opportunity to compare Iraq to Vietnam.

And that particular argument is a fallacy, as well.

As per this striking graph comparing US casualties in the Vietnam War vs the Iraq War:

[Link: caltechgirlsworld.mu.nu...]

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drill for american oil

And if Rudolph gets in the way or Rachel throws herself under the bit, I say lett'er rip!
One less wag to worry about.

To remove the satire just change any references to D-Day and put Iraq or Afghanistan and you have the modern MSM.

Obama would probably think it's a real broadcast.

My only quibble is that the people should have been in period clothing.

(Would have been nice to have a Pat Buchanan clone brought on to apologize to the Nazis and a Ward Churchill spitting-image figure simulated to call the American soldiers "tools of the capitalists and 'little Audie Murpheys' ." )

Despise the Mainstream Media.

/bumper sticker

I have a serious problem with this video. I wasn't aware that we had any retired generals during WWII... at least not hanging out in their houses in Virginia.

Petty Officer First Class Casey

The lady reading the news is a really bad actor! The script was good but she just needed to not sound (or look) like she was reading one!

re: #7 seekeroftruth

They nailed the shameful American media exactly.

The 90% of western media. Media is the tool of socialist agitprop. You may remember this technique was successfully employed by Spanish socialists to terminate Aznar's government after M11. The lies of the media those days sadly worked though they are recorded.
This is a dangerous form of treason, beware they will put all their efforts to help Mr. Barack Hussein the way they did in Spain.