Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes for praising Winston Churchill. What For?

American Thinker ^ | 10/08/2018 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Scott Kelly is a NASA astronaut.  That says a lot about him right there.  To be selected as an astronaut, you must be the best of the best – smart, fearless, and psychologically sound.

So why does Kelly sound like an idiot here?

Washington Examiner:

Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister "one of the greatest leaders of modern times."

"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill.  My apologies.  I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support.  My point was we need to come together as one nation.  We are all Americans.  That should transcend partisan politics," Kelly wrote on Twitter in the evening. 

Right the first time, Scotty.  In 1940, Churchill took a battered, beaten nation after the British army was kicked out of France and rallied his people to resist the Nazi onslaught.  Certainly, Hitler helped a lot by making several key blunders.  But as a demonstration of peerless leadership, there are few modern examples to match Churchill.

So calling Churchill "one of the greatest leaders of modern times" is a no-brainer.  It is a statement supported by history and the facts.

Yossi Gestetner tried to give Kelly a spine:

You are disgracing yourself here. Please stop bending to the will of deranged online trolls.— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) October 7, 2018

 

 

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>>We have a lot of people who don’t know history and it shows.<<

That is the point I was waiting for someone to make. A person can be rightly acclaimed the most intelligent and gifted brain surgeon in human history, yet know next to nothing about important historical facts. And this dude perfectly exemplifies that phenomenon.

[Savrola]

Yes, the British Empire was indeed grand, and Churchill was one of it’s finest servants.

Churchill was a great man.