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Just turned on the tube to get the weather, and given it was on C-SPAN, I got to see live coverage of the Rolling Thunder Rally for US Troops on the National Mall.
Freeper Kristinn Taylor (a guy; go figure) was onstage ragging on the mainstream media for calling Iraq a "meltdown," claiming that he had just been in northern Iraq only a few weeks ago, where it was peaceful and prosperous and people were asking him why no one in the US is aware of their success.
Duh. What a fascinating juxtaposition; his audience is so ignorant that they swallow that crap, while i don't even have to explain to any of you just why it is such crap.
An added, sad note: There could not have been more than a hundred people at this rally. Even sadder is just how much their ignorance has contributed to the worst real support of our troops and veterans in our history.
Have fun this weekend, but be sure to remember all those who have fought and sacrificed serving our country, even when the leaders who sent them to fight and sacrifice in our names had no honor in their mission.
A final question: Didn't Dylan do a Rolling Thunder Tour some years ago?
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Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review was in '75 in 1977 there was the Tommy Lee jones flick Rolllin Thunder where a poor tortured vietnam POW couldnt come back home and shoots out a whorehouse... (Quentin Tarentin named his Rolling Thunder Pictures after this movie) , and of course Jim Hightowers awesome Rolling Thunder Downhome Democracy Tour....
there were two Rolling Thunders that had nothing to do with the 3 1/2 year Carpet Bombing total failure (even according to McNamara) in Vietnam; US Composer Henry Fillmore's march, and grateful dead drummer Mickey Hart's album Rolling Thunder named after a Shoshone medicine man.
but out of all of these.... using that term for a rally to support the current travesty in iraq, after it successfully killled 100,000 vietnamese in under 40 months-- why that is disgusting! and for all those right wing bellyacheers who hate comparisons to vietnam-- maybe if you didin't use the memes yourself (not to mention trivialize them) then maybe, nope, going into losing wars is always going to be going into losing wars...
Someone should look into where Kristinn Taylor got the money to pay for a trip to Northern Iraq. There's something quite strange about that...
Kristinn sounds like Baghdad Bob, who broadcast all was well in Baghdad on March 18,(?) 2003, as the shock and awe bombs lit up the sky behind him.
What goes around, comes around.
Whatever happened to Baghdad Bob? Did he change his name to Kristinn?
Lee is on top of his game lately, isn't he?
lee, wow, thanks so much for this rich background on the 'rolling thunder' meme! if memory serves, dylan chose that title because it has connotations of 'truth' involved.
yeah, the whole use by the motorcycle group to support the vets is entirely ironic, though i'm sure they were simply associating the sound of their godforsaken extremely noisy machines.
i'm particularly intrigued by the medicine man (who was shoshone AND cherokee); inspired to get that book.
Oh my gosh, dr., did you really just use the term "meme?"
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