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[1AD]

Did I just hear Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell (NBC Nightly news)compare the people who fought for our freedom in 1776 to the revolutionaries in Iran? According to Williams and Mitchell the fools who took our Marines, embassy staff, and other civilians, and held them as hostages would be viewed in the same light as Washington, Jefferson, Adams. Please tell me I am wrong.

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[dusty]

We are heading for some sort of showdown Doll. The hate and viciousness of the left for America is rivaling that of the Jihadist.
This cannont continue without something happening. Like Kerry and the VVAW during the Vietnam confliict they will soon be actively feeding information to Al Quada to be used against their own country. They are already giving them public support and plenty of recruiting help.
Sick, sick, sick.

Dusty

[shawa]

Back to the topic:
1AD said

[I B Squidly]

Ingrahm covered it this morning. William's mid-day blog remarked that the idea for the comment had come out of a staff meeting.

The analogy is false on too many points to pass a float test. Of the 'Founding Fathers' that made it to the Presidency only Washington (and VP Burr) wore a uniform or fought in the Revolution. Adams, Jefferson, Monroe etc were in Congess or Governors during the war. Only a 16 old Andy Jackson had any association with irrgular military units (the southern campaign saw vicious partisan action between Whigs, and Tories with brigands taking advantage of the disorder).

Save for Georgia, the Carolinas and Indian campaigns in the Old Northwest revolutionary 'terrorism' fairly limited itself to burning the homes of the King's representitives and tarring and feathering those tax collectors they got their hands on. They did not commit indiscriminate murder on innocent parties nor hold hostage third party nationals.

Despite the lack of pay, an incompetent congress, dismal military performance, a want of food and basic supplies the 'Continentals' soldiered on for individual liberty and to end the last pernicious legacies of monarchism and ecclesiastic authority. The had a firm belief in a supreme being and didn't need government to tell them what it was. Enforcing sharia would have been anethema.
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[shawa]

Rush did play the tape. Indeed, Williams said our early Presidents may have been called 'terrorists' at that time.
Rush just chuckled, saying this reaching for moral equivalence by the Libs
just makes you want to scratch your head!
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[Tanya]

Sickening Moral Equivalence From
NBC Anchor Brian Williams

http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2005/fax20050701.asp

[PhantomSgt]

Watch the ratings drop over the next few weeks at NBC News. Each time they show just how liberal they really are flyover country turns the channel.

I can just imagine the conversation around the dining table: "I just can't watch this stuff anymore. I'm calling that dish company today".

Eventually the networks will die a death of their own creation much like the print media demise we are witnessing.


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[Jerald L. Parsoneault]

Williams should read the best seller "1776." George Washington and his Army were fighting overwhelming British land and sea forces. The honor with which our forces fought is clear -- even the "Blame America First" crowd would have to agree.

Nalt

[GM Strong]

Brian is a basically bright guy, but it sure seems like the Kool Aid is neutralizing brain cells and making him a true Lib mouthpiece. Too bad, he almost had potential OUAT.
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