Eighth-Grader Helps Debunk Lindbergh Myth

WCCO NEWS ^ | 12-26-2005

[Cagey]

Lindy Lucky, again.

[beyond the sea]

Bush created the Myth.....

[BenLurkin]

He was proven wrong when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

[Pessimist]

Once something enters "popular lore", good luck removing it - facts or not.

[Red Badger]

Ancestor's of Mary Mapes?........

[atomicpossum]

Once again, an eighth-grade intelligence sees through the MSM.

[reagan_fanatic]

He was proven wrong when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

The Germans!? Oh, nevermind - you're on a roll!

[ops33]

I think that is a pretty valid point.

[LdSentinal]

So Lindbergh is smarter than Pat Buchanan?

[weegee]

Think Snopes will bother with this?

[lawdude]

"He was proven wrong when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."

Actually, according to current high school teachings, the Americans attacked the Japanese at Pearl.

[weegee]

To hear the left spin it today, Japan was justified in striking out at the Imperialist Americans.

[Cagey]

In 1942, Al Gore hadn't invented Snopes yet.

[BenLurkin]

Who are they kidding? Making excuse for the Tojo and his brutal henchman? Japan had been expanding it GENUINE Empire since the late 1900s -- starting with the conquest of Korea.

[Young Werther]

Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were two of the most notable members of the America First Movement which was vehemently opposed to becoming involved in the War in Europe.

Dec 8, 1941 and these two men would change their minds. Ford called Roosevelt and offered all he had to support the war effort. The River Rouge plant would be converted from automobile to tanks, aircraft, and other war materiel production.

Charles Lindbergh would have his Air Force Rank reinstated and would go to the Pacific theater where he trained aviators in fuel management for long overwater sortees. He trained the squadron who flew the Yamamoto mission and I had the good fortune to meet one of those aviators. Lindbergh flew combat missions but was never credited with the kills because he wasn't supposed to do dat!!!

[ASA Vet]

Ellen Rice, now a 15

Must be gorgeous.

[beyond the sea]

Quote Of The Year

Reporter Brian Ross: "Mary Mapes was the woman behind the scenes, the producer who researched, wrote and put together Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes report on President Bush’s National Guard service, a report which Rather and CBS would later apologize for airing...."

Ross to Mapes: "Do you still think that story was true?

"Ex-CBS producer Mary Mapes: "The story? Absolutely."

Ross: "This seems remarkable to me that you would sit here now and say you still find that story to be up to your standards."

Mapes: "I’m perfectly willing to believe those documents are forgeries if there’s proof that I haven’t seen."

Ross: "But isn’t it the other way around? Don’t you have to prove they’re authentic?"

Mapes: "Well, I think that’s what critics of the story would say. I know more now than I did then and I think, I think they have not been proved to be false, yet."

Ross: "Have they proved to be authentic though? Isn’t that really what journalists do?"

Mapes: "No, I don’t think that’s the standard." — ABC’s Good Morning America, November 9.

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Mary Mapes --- what a GAPING *SSHOLE!

[notigar]

Japan struck us because they were afraid we would use a weapon of mass destruction on them.

[Cagey]

He trained the squadron who flew the Yamamoto mission and I had the good fortune to meet one of those aviators.

I never knew that. I wonder if Doolittle ever thought about seeking his advice in fuel management.