[sinanju]

“Does any one know what Dennis Miller means when he says “touch Indians “?”

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Could Dennis have been referring to the Plains Indian practice of “counting coup” (touching a foe without killing him) in combat? Ken Russell’s “The War” documentary brought this up where a returning Lakota WWII vet, after giving an account of his exploits to his tribal elders was informed that he had accomplished the four feats necessary to qualify as a War Chief (among other things, he punched a German soldier who got away and he sneaked across enemy lines to steal some of their draft horses).

Sixty-odd years later, he still chuckles over that.

[Twinkie]

It was also funny that the Indian man had no idea he was actually doing all those feats at the time he was doing them. It was like circumstances just fell into place. His grandfather was one of the greatest war chiefs of all time; don’t remember his name but they showed a photograph of him.

[shield]

It was Ken Burns and I can't believe you believed that garbage. That doc was so anti-America it made one want to throw up. It was totally a crappy piece of ugly hate America propaganda piece. It made me so angry....how dare PBS and Ken Burns put mostly lies on that public station.

And that Indian bit...oh come on...how many of the white Americans did you see that were out and out heros...there were a huge number of them...we saw NOTHING.

[infidel29]

I believe you are correct. I know the reference has a movie at it's crux, but now that my local affiliate has format changed back to a urban contemporary/ hip-hop line-up, I'm left without Mr. Miller:(

I wanted to send him this as an idea for a t-shirt. This... is Starship.