Missing the story on Patton

Washington Post ^ | 10/2/2014 | Richard Cohen

[Borges]

It’s a fortunate thing that Bill O’Reilly’s latest book, “Killing Patton,” was written by him and not someone else. If not, O’Reilly would have taken the poor person apart, criticizing the book for its chaotic structure, its considerable padding and its repellent admiration of a war-loving martinet who fought the Nazis and really never understood why. George S. Patton stood almost shoulder to shoulder with them in his anti-Semitism — not that O’Reilly seems to have noticed or, for that matter, mentioned it in his book.

[EternalVigilance]

If O’Reilly were to be put on trial for stupidity, I think maybe this book would be Exhibit A.

[Michael.SF.]

who fought the Nazis and really never understood why

Stopped right there. You would think a Cohen would not be that stupid.

[Slump Tester]

Patton standing shoulder to shoulder with Nazis? BULLSHIT!

Cohen will smoke turds in hell for that.

[miss marmelstein]

Richard Cohen doesn’t like PATTON???!

Of course, O’Reilly’s books are disasters but to put down Patton...wow.

[Mears]

It’s a Washington Post reviewer————take it all with a grain of salt.

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[Dr. Thorne]

Who knows? If not for Patton, Cohen might never have been born.

[rlmorel]

I take as much issue with the pantywaist pussy at the Washington Compost who deemed it his job to badmouth Patton.

When people like Richard Cohen are being carted away by evil people to parts unknown to predictable fates, they will thank God there are people like Patton in this world who can bring our enemies to their knees.

So, Patton was an anti-semite on par with the Nazis (debatable)? So he fought the Nazis without knowing why? (One thinks he would have understood all too well why we were fighting the Nazis when he walked through the concentration camps, even though he was an anti-semite in the same league as the Nazis, or so Cohen asserts.)

What a raving sphincter. THIS opinion piece is why newspapers are dying.

I am no fan of O’Reilly’s, I haven’t read his book (and won’t) but his criticism of Patton across a half century burns me up. Patton was no saint, and he certainly had lots of flaws, but this POS Cohen isn’t worthy to lick the ground Patton’s boots have even touched.

[EternalVigilance]

Liberals hate real men. No surprise.

[forgotten man]

I doubt if Ted Baxter wrote “Killing Patton” or any of the other books that he hawks of TV. He always has a new book for sale just in time for Christmas or Easter or both. Where does he find the time? Historians like John Toland, Cornelius Ryan, and William Manchester spent years researching and writing one book.

I read the biography of Patton written by Blumenson. It was good. Save yourself some money and go the pulblic library and read history written by real historians.

[ozzymandus]

I saw this was written by Richard Cohen and didn’t bother to read it. Cohen is a leftist RAT, jumping at the chance to smear both Patton and O’Reilly. Actually, Martin Duggard does a pretty good job writing O’Reilly’s books for him, albeit at about a junior-high level.

[rlmorel]

When I said “his criticism of Patton” I was referring to Cohen, not O’Reilly. I really couldn’t care less about what O’Reilly does, to be honest. I just don’t care for the windbag.

[miss marmelstein]

You should read the moronic comments after the article. If I was Cohen, I’d hang my head in shame that I attracted such idiots.

[PhilDragoo]

We are caught between two narcissists with their private truths.

I read and I continue to recommend Robert Wilcox, Target: Patton.

Patton was inconvenient in his insistence we defeat the tyranny emanating from Moscow.

Just as was James Forrestal as seen in the research by David Martin.

Patton would have run for Senate in California and then the White House all to finish the job of eradicating tyranny.

Instead, today we have what we have in the Senate from California and in the White House we have the flexible fellow traveler.

Cohen cries anti-Semitism against an anti-Communist seventy years dead while his president creates the new Islamic imperialism with the aid of his Muslim DCI.

[rlmorel]

Patton was a fascinating, terribly skilled, very flawed man.

I have read a few books on him including Blumenson’s.

[windsorknot]

Richard Cohen is a useful idiot for the Democrat Party and stands shoulder to shoulder with the anti-Semites in that Party.

[Fido969]

Within days, Congressional delegations came to visit the concentration camps, accompanied by journalists and photographers. General Patton was so angry at what he found at Buchenwald that he ordered the Military Police to go to Weimar, four miles away, and bring back 1,000 civilians to see what their leaders had done, to witness what some human beings could do to others. The MP's were so outraged they brought back 2,000.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/usarmy_holo.html

[Michael.SF.]

Patton was no saint, and he certainly had lots of flaws

Next time you are passing Chiraco Summit (on I10 between Indio and Blythe), I suggest stopping at the Patton museum. I have passed it by 20 times, at least, finally stopped and was very glad I did.

Patton may have been an SOB at times, but that was a persona he put on, when appropriate, other times, he was a real charmer.

[sauropod]

I take anything that Richard Cohen, sexual harasser, says or writes with a pound of salt.

[PeteePie]

"The bilious bastards who write that stuff for the Saturday EveningWasthington Post don't know any more about real battle than they do about fornicating. And we have the best team—we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity these poor bastards we're going up against."

I think Patton knew enough about who we were fighting and why.