PBS Documentary Purposefully Desecrates World War II Vets

[las47032]

Via the Rush Limbaugh Show today:

"RUSH: World War II, I read today, those of you from the greatest generation, you World War II vets still alive, apparently Monday night PBS is going to run a documentary on World War II in which the whole notion that we were the good guys is going to be turned upside down, that we used totalitarian dictatorship tactics to win World War II, that all we did was bomb the innocent in Dresden and Hamburg and, of course, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that we were not the valiant and valorous victors that we were made out to be, that we couldn’t have done what we did had we not partnered up with another dictator and mass murderer named Stalin. I want to prepare you veterans, if you’re going to watch this, because it’s Niles something or other, I forget his name. I’ve got the story here in the stack. I’ll try to remember to find it before we get outta here. But they’re going to stand the whole legacy of World War II on its head. We were rotten to the core mass murderers of innocent civilians."

According to the schedule at PBS "History Detectives", " The sixth season begins with a diary of a WWII pilot."

Don’t know if this is the show, but if this rumor is true it is unacceptable that our public money be used to trash the heroism of our WWII vets.
Here’s more from an opinion in the Chattanoogan.

"On Monday our local PBS station will air a show that rewrites the history of WWII and distorts history so that the sacrifice America made will become something dirty and evil. This apparently will make the case that we are as evil as Stalin and Hitler because we killed many civilians during the war. The makers of this film seem to believe that all war should be clean and no one should die except maybe Hitler. In my study of history I don’t believe there are many times that anyone has been able to kill the leader of your enemy without killing the others who are around him.

This is saying to all our veterans that they were wrong to follow their leaders of that time, wrong to sacrifice to save Europe from Hitler, wrong to stop the killing of the Jews and others, and wrong to stop the Japanese who attacked us. This is to me another example of the mindset of those liberals who are ashamed of their country and they want to rewrite history. "

Follow this link to tell them that you will not stand by and let them rewrite history. Contact your local PBS station and tell them that you will not support them in any future programing, and contact your congressman and senator to alert them to what is going on.

Source: MacRanger Action Alert - PBS Plans Show to Desecrate WWII VetsbyMacsmind

[Woodmonkey]

Thanks for adding that link so we can do something!

[daniels116]

I don't know what to say about that other than it suck big time. Why would anyone want to do this and who in their right mind would let them and think it is okay? I maen freedom of speech and they have the righ tothink but to air it. my god.

[Old Fart]

"Why would anyone want to do this and who in their right mind would let them and think it is okay?"

You are looking at the end result of the "Hippie, peace, love, anti-war" generation created in the late 60's and early 70's.
The clueless Morons who have since gravitated into journalism and brodasting since their college days.
The first who would be slaughtered by an enemy intent on killing us and the worthless pieces of sh*t we, who have chosen to go fight our wars, would be defending, only to be defamed by them once they were again "comfortable" because of OUR efforts!



My letter to PBS (heavy on the "BS" part).

"I guess since most of the WW2 veterans are now dead, PBS has decided that it is safe to "edit" history.
War is an ugly, nasty thing, I know, I'm a veteran.
In war, there is no such thing as "innocent civilians", only participants in the home front "machine" that makes the war possible in the first place.
You are quick to second guess the necessity of bombing Germany and Japan into the stone age and equally quick to ingnore the FACT that NO country can continue to fight a war when there is no infrastructure left to create the weapons of war and the public no longer has the will or the means to continue. That is how wars have been WON since the beginning of man's armed conflict.
It disgusts me that PBS is supported my MY money and I'll be doing everything I can to see to it that you get a whole lot less of it!"

Now, it's YOUR turn.
http://www.pbs.org/aboutsite/aboutsite_feedback.html

[las47032]

Originally Posted by daniels116

I don't know what to say about that other than it suck big time. Why would anyone want to do this and who in their right mind would let them and think it is okay? I maen freedom of speech and they have the righ tothink but to air it. my god.

But the revisionist, blame America liberal/moonbats don't have the right to profane World War II vets!

WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Leo2man]

The documentary is called "The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century". It is the companion piece to Niall Ferguson's book by the same title.

Essentially, his argument is that the 20th century world was in the midst of a period of continuous conflict that was broken occasionally by periods of brief calm. He looks at the Allied tactics of World War II and makes the argument that they were more or less based on totalitarian tactics.

Ferguson: "The aim of strategic bombing was . . . in large measure to kill German civilians by destroying the most densely populated parts of the country. And it only really worked when the level of destruction reached apocalyptic levels. It behooves us all to stare this reality in the face, by trying to understand what it was like to be on the receiving end of firestorms like the ones that engulfed Hamburg or Dresden."

If one looks at the results of strategic bombing, the data shows that it only marginally affected German wartime production. Factories adapted to the bombing, often moving underground, and it was really only the lack of workers and strategic overseas resources that slowed production in any real measure.

And of course, when one looks at the Western Front versus the Eastern front in both world wars, the Russian/Soviet contribution to winning the war far outwieghed anything the West contributed. Not that the Russians/Soviets could have won the war on their own: just to say that their contribution was key to the winning of the war, which of course supports Ferguson's argument of an unholy alliance.

Revisionist history to be certain, but perhaps more realistic than the current version.

[john mclaughlin]

This is going to be hot,under the collar firestorm!