Posted on 01/29/2011 7:23:46 PM PST by T.L.Sink
Henry Luce who ran Time and Life magazine was notorious for saying that it was okay for journalists to sell part of their souls for money. We all know that one can’t sell part of their soul. Luce was a hack propagandist. Life regularly told wild lies. I believe nothing that is in those magazines. amongst Life magazines evil is promoting Timothy Leary’s crackpot theories and the promotion of LSD as a “mind expanding” drug rather than the evil psychosis inducing drug it was. How many kids died or went insane after believing that BS? If there is any justice Luce is burning in hell.
I agree...see my post at #7.
Yes, and I was especially amazed by the cigarette ads and the things that are still legal (Government loves that tax revenue from lethal products!) but deprived of their First Amendmet rights now to advertise!
You’re just repeating the tired old gossip and unsubstantiated accusations of the past. Yes, it’s true that the Duke of Windsor went to Germany and met Hitler - as did a million other politicians and celebrities in those days. But to accept the tabloid gossip of the 30’s that he was a Nazi is laughable. Joe Kennedy was far more tied to Nazism than the duke! (The father of our late president).
That’s all unsubstantiated nonsense and tabloid gossip and you know it. If you disagree, submit serious documentation and not just hearsay tittle-tattle.
You’re more than welcome and it’s good to hear a sane remark about the article!
That photo and the comments are as old as Methusalah. Would you like me to post some pre-war pictures of some prominent Americans and Britains with Hitler? How about British diplomats and Charles Lindburgh? By the way, how about a photo of the British ambassador shaking hands with Hitler at Munich? As I said in another post, Hitler’s best American friend was Joe Kennedy, father of JFK.
The structure of this sentence implies that Elizabeth II is Edward's daughter. Sloppy writing--or maybe just plain ignorance.
The structure of this sentence implies that Elizabeth II is Edward's daughter. Sloppy writing--or maybe just plain ignorance.
Thanks for your comments about the film and they make me more eager to see it. In your opinion, did the film explore the personal situation of Edward and Mrs. Simpson in the context of the times or did it just resort to a tabloid name-calling of “Nazi,” as have so many FReepers?
Edward was considered deformed in the manly way...Wallis had been schooled in the sexual arts by Chinese concubines and then became mysteriously ill for a year or two, and of course all the facts about her prior have been rather neutered, but were pretty racey when it comes down to it. Evidently her ‘dominatrix style’ accommodated Edward very well.
SHE was introduced through a prior relationship with a Mussillini ambassador, to facism. Not sure if he picked it up from her or not.
Wallis was a debutante, but a poor relation debutante but with real ambition who used ‘em and the lost ‘em until Edward. There just wasn’t any more higher society than that available for her.
I know what you’re saying but I don’t think the MSM became really biased and leftist until the late 60’s. Life magazine was truly a part of Americana and middle class everyday life. It was as American as hot dogs, beer, and the World Series. In fact, until it went out of business it was a staple in nearly every middle class home. It’s tempting today to lump all publications as liberally biased but we can’t blame all of them for not knowing today what they couldn’t have known at the time.
You obviously have difficulty with predicate nominatives. Until you learn some elementary grammer, please spare me your shallow and trivial remarks.
The fact that Joseph Kennedy,Sr and Charles Lindburgh were Avis Nazi sympathizers is proven fact; the reason neither man was ever able to run for POTUS.
That the Duke and Duchess were Nazi sympathizers & avid supporters of Hitler and the Nazi regime is far from gossip. It is accepted , documented historical fact. Documented in contemporary documents and cables, as well as in biographies of Churchill, who as Wartime PM dealt with the matter.
Why such resistance to the fact that the man who would have been King of England sided with the Nazis & was a traitor to his own people?
And no , Americans overwhelming fought against Hitler & the Nazis, giving their lives and blood to free Europe from the horrors of Nazism.
They didnt have their pictures taken with Hitler or have Hitlers top officers take the photos at their wedding.
You might want to read the works of Winston Churchill. You might actually learn something
from this intellectual giant about Britain, the Nazis, & WWII.
The photo of the Windsors with Hitler posted here was taken in 1937, after the Nazis came to power. They actually visited concentration camps on that visit as well.
Making apologies for Nazis and their supporters is diametrically opposed to everything that Conservatives & FR stand for.
“Grammer?”
Predicate nominative?
Since you didn’t notice it, I was referring to your use of an ambiguous antecedent.
“A common stylistic problem in writing, often leading to confusion, is the use of a pronoun for which the antecedent is not clear, as in the following example:
I met John at Mike’s party. He told me about his new friend.
“
I think you’re the one who needs a grammar lesson or two.
1. John Chancellor’s planned disturbance at the 1964 Republican Convention.
1A. Chancellor’s NBC partner who joined the Manchester Guardian (Commie) and later wrote for the Washington Post.
2. Educate yourself about Leftist Drew Pearson.
3. William Randolph Hearst’s chain of Democratic newspaper, until he opposed Catholic Al Smith, and then until he supported FDR because he hated Al Smith, until he hated FDR ...
4 Before WWII, almost every newspaper had a slant, Democratic or Republican,
In the film, I do not recall ANY reference at ALL to Germany or Nazis, except for one: (I have to paraphrase, because I don’t remember exactly) at a party thrown by then new King Edward VIII, when Albert showed up, he angrily asked the new King “Where is Cousin Wilhem?” and that was it. (He was angry because he had Wallis Simpson there, and man, I don’t think even “butterface” described her appropriately.
The Life magazine you linked to was, I think, 1972. I took the time go extensively through it, as well as a couple of others. There is no doubt, none, zero, nada that they were completely infested with liberalism.
When the main stories include extensive glowing articles about people like Bella Azbug, George McGovern, Gloria Steinhem et al (and not much else) there isn’t any doubt.
I think the other poster was spot on about Henry Luce.
Actually, there was one other reference to Nazis. When Prince Albert was summoned to 10 Downing Street to discuss the situation with the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, he was informed of difficulties the government was going to have with the new king, specifically, his wife. They talked about how she was currently sleeping with a used car salesman (her current husband?) that she was rumored to have learned certain “skills” at what was apparently a whorehouse in Shanghai (or something like that) and that she received a dozen carnations every single day from a high Nazi (It might have been Ribbentrop, that is the one that sticks in my head)
All this information was supposedly given to Baldwin by Scotland Yard.
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