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2019-12-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Meet the Only West Point Cadet to Be Named a Rhodes Scholar This Year
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 07:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 From Wiki on Rhodes:

.....the BBC has spent £10m of our money putting together a farrago of exaggerations and smears about this great man." Peter Godwin said of the film that "it feels like a work overwhelmingly informed by malice, consistently seizing on the very worst interpretation of the man without really attempting to get under his skin. Rhodes was no 19th-century Hitler. He wasn't so much a freak as a man of his time."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 07:24||   2019-12-03 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Van De Wall is in the forces...
Irony overload.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-03 07:34||   2019-12-03 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Indeed !
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 07:35||   2019-12-03 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh, forces. I see I'm not the only one who picked up on that.

He wasn't so much a freak as a man of his time.

This is something that really annoys me about today's progressives/activists/morons - a total unawareness of any historical context whatsoever.
Person X was bad because he kicked a dog.
Yeah, but the dog was biting his leg at the time.
It doesn't matter. Kicking dogs is bad.
Posted by SteveS 2019-12-03 13:27||   2019-12-03 13:27|| Front Page Top

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