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2004-11-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-30 2:22:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One day, this will be made into a movie: The Silence of the Hams.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-11-30 2:49:14 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-11-30 2:49:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL! Must be the they day moon....

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-30 3:37:53 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:37:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sajak is an honorable fellow, but his concerns fall on deaf ears...

And in all this wierdness add to the fact that Theo Van Gogh is Vincent's great-great-grandson

Posted by BigEd 2004-11-30 3:42:28 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:42:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, let's see. Fewer than a thousand US tankers drive straight into an enemy city of 5 million people, take it in less than 24 hours, and then fight off wave after wave of counterattacks. Nope, not enough dramatic action for a movie there.

Posted by Matt 2004-11-30 3:56:20 PM|| 2004-11-30 3:56:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Just when you thought that all sanity departed Hollowood, Sajak steps up to the plate and knocks one out of the park! Pat U DA MAN! the money phrase: "If I were Michael Moore, I would much rather rail against George W. Bush, who is much less likely to have me killed." A classic!

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-11-30 5:07:24 PM|| 2004-11-30 5:07:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 THE Pat Sajak????

I'm still trying to grasp it. I've always thought he was a decent bloke but ida never guessed that he thought this way. He gets it.

You go Pat! I knew I liked you and now I got more reasons. Keep it coming, bud.

Posted by peggy 2004-11-30 5:43:21 PM|| 2004-11-30 5:43:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Some how I can see Mel Gibson making "The Three Stooges" from his Passion bundle. It just takes time.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-30 5:54:43 PM|| 2004-11-30 5:54:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 In aramaic?

Posted by lex 2004-11-30 5:59:39 PM|| 2004-11-30 5:59:39 PM|| Front Page Top

Besides, a man of Mooreâs size would provide a great deal of "bulletin board" space.

Classic!

Posted by someone 2004-11-30 8:19:05 PM|| 2004-11-30 8:19:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 lex:

Heh.

But I think Mrs. D. was referring to Curly, Moe, and Larry, 3 key overpasses taken during the battle, whose defense in the face of hordes of attackers was pretty stirring.

MSNBC had a cameraman at one of them, and played the footage: I distinctly remember a couple of troops bringing back a guy on a stretcher; suddenly, he sits up, whips out his weapon, and blows away a fighter (offscreen, but in the footage the reporter confirmed that the wounded trooper killed him)

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2004-11-30 8:24:05 PM|| 2004-11-30 8:24:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Carl, your recollection is confirmed in Thunder Run by David Zucchino, IMHO the best book to come out of the war so far.

Posted by Matt 2004-11-30 8:31:17 PM|| 2004-11-30 8:31:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 You remember that too, Carl? I rarely watch TV, even in wartime. But I saw that and laughed and cried at the same time. How could those weenies ever expect to win against men like that? That was one of the few moments in television to exceed the 1980 Olympic hockey win.

It was followed up with an article on the battles, in the LA Times?, that convinced me that the event you mention was only one of hundreds that day. Taking Baghdad was such a close run thing even Patton would be swept away by the audacity of it. And we haven't even heard about what really went down in Fallujah, yet. There is no doubt in my mind that this represents the finest, best trained, most well equipped, lethal, you name it, military in the history of mankind. No wonder the rest of the world is scared of us. Four hundred years ago this country was nothing but trees. What will we do, they ask themselves, if we get another hundred?

I also like the way the Three Stooges plays against the Three Kings. Stooges...riiiiiight.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-30 8:40:06 PM|| 2004-11-30 8:40:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think "Team America: World Police" really shut Hollywood up - absolutely hysterical satire clowning on the hollywussys. America - fuck yeah.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-11-30 9:06:21 PM|| 2004-11-30 9:06:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Mrs. D, good post. An interesting point is that one of the soldiers who fought in the intersection battles was Bob Gallagher, who also was with the Rangers in the October 1993 battle in Mogadishu. In Iraq he won the Silver Star.

Mogadishu was the battle that caused Osama to say that our soldiers were "soft." It looks like he misunderestimated Sergeant Gallagher.

Posted by Matt 2004-11-30 9:16:30 PM|| 2004-11-30 9:16:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Pat Sajak is a really smart dude, don't let that WOF stuff throw you off. I've seen him interviewed before and the guy always surprises me with his intelligence.

His point, in this case, is dead-on. No need to add why we haven't seen a movie about 9/11,except from the terrorists's side.

Posted by Snolung Omusing2464 2004-11-30 9:24:34 PM|| 2004-11-30 9:24:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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