Terminator robots sound a lot more credible. And hey they might even make a movie out of it.
Posted on 09/24/2014 7:27:56 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
“...after watching the video of Obongo “saluting” the Marines with his coffee cup, Bill laughed and said, “Cut the guy some slack.”
O’Reilly’s not the only one who’s said this. This morning, Mike Gallagher (on his radio show) said almost the same thing.
Interesting premise, but (without reading the book) I don't think there's much there. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Bill will sell plenty of books, though.
I've read a couple of Patton's biographies. He *was* outspoken in the need to go after Russia. IMO, he was utterly wrong. The western allies were pretty well spent. Russia had better technology, and (more important) the will to throw manpower into a meat grinder. It would have been an ugly bloodbath.
Now, Germany and the allies against Russia, circa July of '44?
Might have been interesting.
This is what you get when you take a street thug organizer from the Chicago ghetto and make him "commander in chief". I can barely stand to write or to speak that title in connection with the POS.
“The latest copy and paste from Bill O’Reilly, summizing that Patton was murdered.”
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That rumor has been around for years. Who knows,may it’s true?
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You haven’t been receiving my invitations to the meetings?
Yeah, I imagine this book is about as accurate as his previous efforts.
I wonder just how much research and writing he did compared to Martin Dugard. I can just hear the old gasbag saying, "Put my name on your cover, let me take care of the selling, and you'll do better than you ever could on your own."
Patton ping
Headlines of the day read "head-on crash." Pictures show far more than what some say was a "fender-bender."
Why does that not surprise me...?
Terminator robots sound a lot more credible. And hey they might even make a movie out of it.
I can stand BOR but this book might be correct. Patton did not have many friends and he was very popular at home. They feared a man they could not control.
I saw him on Kelly & Michael the other day and he stated we do not know all the facts about what happened to Patton or WW2! We will learn about Churchill and Stalin and Eisenhower. Kelly was amazed....
Gee... to think this guy was able to dig up all the info that millions of others who lived at the time and personally witness and those that came after and read their histories were unable to dig up the “real” truth!
BTW if you are in a car and get hit by a truck and were not wearing a seatbelt you would probably be killed.
“Target Patton” is a good read whether or not you agree with its premise. Lots of good peripheral history.
Patton’s Cadillac is on display at Fort Knox along with his mobile command post truck. My dad was driving in a convoy and saw the vehicle after the accident. The passengers were gone by then of course.
The accident was just that. The question is whether he got an injection in the hospital to make him become more “helpful”.
But the big one will be “Killing Bruce Lee”. O’Reilly will say he needed to do that one because Lee was a cultural icon like he is. He’ll say Lee was killed by the Chinese mob because he started teaching Americans the ancient art of Wing Chun, which no one but Chinese should know. And the “killing” of Lee’s son Brandon is more proof that Bruce was done in by the mob because they killed his son too. These theories on the “killing” of Bruce Lee have been around since his death, but O’Reilly will say it’s all new material.
I would not put it past BOR to rip someone off.
It seems you’re right on both counts. The truck and Patton’s car collided nearly head-on, crushing the right front fender of the general’s Cadillac. Patton apparently struck his head on the railing above the rear of the driver’s seat, which tore open his forehead and started him bleeding profusely.
I made my earlier statements based on Ladislas Farago’s book “Ordeal and Triumph,” usually considered a reliable biography. But Farago has been criticized for providing sketchy and dubious information on the accident, relying on the testimony of an MP who (falsely) claimed to be the first on the scene. The eyewitness accounts of Gen. Gay and PFC Horace Woodring, both of whom were in the car with Patton, confirm your version of the events.
I have actually visited the scene of the accident.
“Target Patton” is a good read whether or not you agree with its premise. Lots of good peripheral history. “
I read it, it’s good.
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