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Posted on 06/16/2010 12:26:41 PM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
Its been said that life often imitates art. However, I never imagined that the satirical airbrushing campaign undertaken by the rabid anti-smoking lobby at the end of “Thank You For Smoking” would ever actually be replicated in real life. Apparently, as the Daily Mail reports, I was wrong (h/t Adam S Baldwin):
It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of political correctness.
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Uncle Joe would approve.
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Argh! This drives me crazy.
Like Stalin said, “No cigar, no problem!” LOL!
How Soviet of them.
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/12/07/making_war/
Monty had many stories to tell: how, when he urged Churchill to fire the fogies in charge of Britain’s army after Dunkirk and boasted that he himself didn’t drink or smoke and was 100 percent fit, the nearly 67-year-old prime minister had eyed him with astonishment. “I smoke, I drink -and I’m 200 percent fit!” Churchill had retorted.
I guess sometimes a cigar isn’t just a cigar. It simply isn’t even when it is.
More fake but accurate...
Shades of Disney Corp.
...next year it will be a Twinkie that violated Monica
A real sicko would have airbrushed out his index finger.
I don’t care how much airbrushing is done, you can’t change history. It is what it is. Try it and there will always be someone who will call you on it and make the truth be known.
Shades of Winston Smith and Ministry of Truth!
I'm sure there is an attempt somewhere to airbrush him completely out of the history books.
Sick!
See my comments here, at an earlier posting of this story. I recommend the book “The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia,” by David King. We are taking up the Soviets’ bad habits and poof, down the Memory Hole.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2534552/posts
Wonder if they’ll censor the word Cigar out of the Clinton / Lewinsky story too?
I am gonna go outside and light one up for ‘ol Winston right now.
They may, but they will never be able to erase the 'Clinton Chant' from FReeper lore.
Bill Clinton!
We have you surrounded!
Put down the cigar
Step away from the intern
And come out with your pants, up!
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