Saturday, June 7, 2014

DO THE FACTS EVER MATTER?


“Progressives” are all over the “Righties” for their practice of creating their own versions of reality. In these days, the practice is made manifest in the matter of the POW swap of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahi for five high value Taliban detainees from Guantanamo. (By the way, “guantanamero/a” is the adjective meaning “originating in Guantanamo”)

Today, on the 70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, President Obama affirmed solemnly that the allied forces fought Hitler and gave their lives to preserve freedom and democracy. He claimed that there in Normandy they established a beach head for democracy and freedom. . . Really? In 1945, the U.S. army hanged Louis Till—Emmett’s dad—for murdering an Italian woman and raping two others. Was that an execution or a lynching?

Do the facts ever matter?

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