Keith Olbermann assails Secretary of State Rice on her ignorance of history.
I have one quarrel with Olbermann: You can indeed compare Saddam Hussein with Hitler, just as you can compare apples and oranges. You can compare anything with anything else. Look up the word "compare" in the dictionary.
After you digest what Olbermann has to say, check out this propaganda letter, which -- a couple of years ago -- was widely reprinted in a number of different venues (print and online), ascribed to various names. (Odd how that happens, eh wot?). See if you can spot the error:
President Franklin Roosevelt led us into World War II, but Germany never attacked us. We lost 405,000 military personnel during the war.Kinda leaves out a few facts, doesn't it? Fact 1: Germany had conquered or attacked our friends and allies. Fact 2: We were directly attacked by Germany's Axis partner, Japan. Fact 3: The Germans declared war against the United States shortly after Pearl Harbor.
In the clip above, Olbermann reminds us of a history that the conservatives want to place into rewrite. The conservatives now want to portray FDR as either the GWB of his day or as the true instigator of WWII. Revealing...
(And those of you salivating to scribble weird Pearl Harbor theories should stand warned: You will be sent immediately to the tranny corner.)
2 comments:
But why doe you WANT to compare oranges with apples, or Saddam Hussein with Hiter? That's wat Olberman comment is about.
I don't know why anyone would want to compare apples and oranges, but there are circumstances, I suppose, when one may wish to do so. The point I'm trying to make is that people often fallaciously hold that one cannot compare two things unless they strongly resemble each other. And that is not true.
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