One In Five Brits Think Churchill Never Existed?

Captain's Quarters ^ | Feb. 04, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

[w1andsodidwe]

What is the percentage of ROP citizen in Great Britain now? Maybe they are just taking their cues from the president of Iran and disbelieving anything to do with WWII.

[nwrep]

I bet you 90% of Brits believe Christ never existed. Welcome to post-modern ignorance.

[Jeff Head]

Sounds about like the approximate number of Islamics that have moved into Great Britian. Add that to their liberal education system and there is no surprise here...only sorrow.

[Long Island Pete]

The Holocaust never happened. 9-11 was staged by the U.S. Government. Fire doesnt melt steel. Communism works. Hugo Chavez was elected democratically. I really have given up on society.

[kabar]

LOL. Perhaps the 23% of those polled were composed mostly of immigrants.

[Brilliant]

If Al Gore can’t prove that Churchill existed, then what right have you to say otherwise?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Really sad.

[MBB1984]

Well, looking at pathetic Britain now, who would think that they had such a great leader only sixty years ago?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I wouldn’t assume the poll was of Westerners, just because they were British.

[NonValueAdded]

Ward maybe, but Winston???

[SIDENET]

In contrast, a majority -- 58% -- believed that Sherlock Holmes was in fact a real person

He wasn't?

How about Dr. Watson?

lol

[Kozak]

I mean, what more does a man have to do to gain some measure of immortality?

Make a bad propaganda movie for nonexistent science, then win a Nobel Prize and Academy Award.

[Roccus]

Gee. I guess since I can remember Churchill being PM, it’ll be ‘off to the camps’ for me.

[jas3]

I bet you 90% of Brits believe Christ never existed. Welcome to post-modern ignorance.

I'll take that bet, esp. since England's largest religion is now Catholicism, due to large number of Polish immigants. What are we betting?

jas3

p.s. There is more film of Churchill than Christ.

[Verginius Rufus]

If the Duke of Wellington was mythical, who do they think invented Wellington boots? They really exist.

I remember once when Jay Leno asked someone in L.A. what the large body of water nearby was and the guy said "the Atlantic Ocean."

[bmwcyle]

Rush said,

For liberals, history starts either the day they were born or the day they woke up.

[livius]

I recall reading here on FR not long ago (last fall, perhaps) that British history books used in the government school system no longer even mention Churchill. How they can cover WWII without mentioning him is beyond me, but he was apparently eliminated because he is not popular with Muslims and is considered “divisive.” If you will recall, Churchill had some very accurate words about Islam and its effect on the world...

[Skip Ripley]

This poll says something interesting about people beyond “gosh they’re dumb”. If you slowly allow the freedoms that great leaders like Churchill fought for to be taken from you bit by bit, the sacrifices of those leaders and the people that served with them become irrelevant. Churchill was real then...but he isn’t now because the people carrying his legacy are throwing it away.

Examining the state of the GOP leads me to think that Ronald Reagan never existed either...

[CodeToad]

Wanna bet that half of black Americans cannot say who Lincoln was or what he contributed to their history?