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What will history say?

Thought a lot about this question lately. What will history say about what we are doing right now, say in thirty years?  Will the history books be written in such detail as our cognitive thoughts remember the exact place and time we were standing when the Challenger blew up or when the O.J. Simpson trial verdict was being read or the twin towers fell?  Is the present time we live in as troubling as so many forecast, or is it just another page to go in a history book?  This idea of what we will know in thirty years that we don't know now makes you wonder, doesn't it?

You must confess that the past years have been something to write about; from the attack on the world trade center, to infiltrating Afghanistan, the election of 2000 and 2004, the democrat take over of 2006, splitting the country into Traditionalists and Secular Progressives, the Iraq war, the taking down and execution of Saddam Hussein, the Jews (Israel) and Muslims (Hamas in Lebanon) still fighting, the term Islamic Fascists and the term Islamophobia, Iran getting nuclear armament, Iran's president saying the holocaust is a farce and wanting to annihilate the Zionist nations, a study (Iraq Study Club) club formed to tell a President how to handle a country, Colin Powell (from Desert Storm to Secretary of State) steps down, a Secretary of Defense (Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld) resigns, and many, many, more.

I recently responded to a local radio station host comments on the radio (with an email), in which he posed the same question, kind of.  This is the actual email in its entirety, unedited (-the names), with his comment.

Dear Mr. M.,
I was driving to work today and was listening to your M. Report as I always do every morning. I usually defend you when talking to
other Libertarians and Conservatives when it comes them making a point that your report is bias and very liberal.However, you shown your true colors talking about the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. And as you said, "it seemed to you that Vice President mis-spoke when he said Mr. Rumsfeld is the greatest Secretary of Defense that this nation has ever seen".It has come to my realization that your beliefs on anything in this world falls right into the same line as Rush Limbaugh would call the Drive-By media. I'm sure if the High Priest (Neal Boortz) of the  painful truth heard you utter those words he would give you a vocal lashing that Wichita has never seen before. As for Hannity and the Great One, I think they would hold there heads in disgust at you.Next time you your liberal venom decides to erupt out of your mouth, will you please do your listeners the satisfaction of getting the  facts first. Secretary Rumsfeld WILL go down in United States history for being the greatest Secretary of Defense because everyone one of his men and women in uniform never once second guessed there cause or mission into the streets of hell and standing up for the wall of freedom. This man grasp the global consequences of what he was expected to do and responded accordingly. He took Afghanistan in 3 days, took Iraq in 1 week, and had to battle a barrage of liberal media (like yourself) that fight more intensely with their agenda and more viciously than the insurgents are troops face everyday.If it was your intention to counteract, and give a different perspective than what the other talk radio hosts do, please say so before you go off on a tangent that was clearly bias and to be quite frank, absurd. I hope to keep defending you but, please, for the sake of your audience, get the facts and let the listener decide what the truth is, instead of coming across as the above.Sincerely,Rob T., Wichita, Kansas Editor/Designer http://www.patrioticthunder.com
 

> Baloney. You don't have to be a "liberal" to understand Rummy's a failure.
Everyone from Chuck Hagel (he's a conservative Republican senator from
Nebraska) to most of the Pentagon wanted Rummy out. In a few years, history will agree with me. Of course, some folks believe that history is a liberal plot ... and the world is flat ... and there is no global warming ... and the children of the idle rich need a tax break ...

Thanks for listening.

Steve M.
 

> Mr. T:
One more thing, if you please. You claim to be an "editor/designer". Why not do me the courtesy of checking your copy for misspellings and gramatical errors before sending an email?

Have a good day ... and a happy New Year!
Steve

 Now at this current time, I haven't responded to Steve (Mr. M.). Why should I? He apparently has a different opinion and, much like he tries to defend his liberalism, he has resorted to making it personal.  Now you all know, I don't let my feathers get ruffled easily, and it would take a lot more than some talk show host portraying himself as Air America on a Conservative news radio talk show to do so.  However, I will respond in my column, because his initial idea was great.  What will history say, I guess that's why he has been on radio for about thirty five years.  In saying that, the Rummy comment was unneeded, and just came across as a left winger expressing his views. I thought journalists were to present the facts, and let the audience decide what the truth is. That's what we try to do here at Patriotic Thunder.  Please tell me if I'm wrong. Okay don't, I know I'm wrong.  Journalists today try to be the history (story) instead of just reporting it. 

Responding to Steve's comments:   being such a good liberal, Steve mentions Chuck Hagel.  Chuck Hagel is the Democrat's Gopher boy, he has been in office two terms, isn't a chairman of any committees, flip flops everything, criticizes Bush, other Republicans, criticized Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell when he was Secretary of State, voted for Iraq war, voted for financially supporting the war, now says we should get out, civil war has erupted, and so and so on.  He's a "Even Republican" for the Drive-By media (main stream media) so they can have a plug in there news cast that says, "Even Republicans are against Bush".  If your going to name drop someone, at least make it someone with some credibility.  As for Global Warming, we'll just refer to your whipping boy (Chuck Hagel) who says, "no one really knows", including yourself.  For the idle rich, I can only say, I respect them.  No poor person ever gave me a job.  Now I could finish up this response into your personal attack about my misspellings and grammatical errors, but then I would have to explain I sent this email from my server (which has no spell check) rather than my Outlook. But why should I do that, when you can't even spell "gramatical" right, while your trying to correct me.  Yep, Steve tries to portray himself into being this great person on the radio and can't even spell himself. Thanks for the laugh though and if your wondering, that was a personal attack towards you.

As for history, we already lived it, and for why I said Donald Rumsfeld WILL go down history as the greatest Defense Secretary this nation has ever seen.

Donald Rumsfeld's Accomplishments

  • The Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ford (1977)
  • From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., a worldwide pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981).
  • Royal Order of the Intare by King Kigeli V of Rwanda.
  • George C. Marshall Medal by the U.S. Army Association (1984)
  • Woodrow Wilson Medal by Princeton University (1985)
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal (1993)
  • Lone Sailor Award by the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation (2002)
  • Statesmanship Award by the U.S. Assoc of Former Members of Congress (2003)
  • James H. Doolittle Award by the Hudson Institute (2003)
  • Ronald Reagan Freedom Award by the Reagan Library (2003)
  • Gerald R. Ford Medal presented by President Ford and the Ford Foundation (2004[48]
  • Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the Boy Scouts of America
  • Best Press Conference Golden Microphone presented by The Human Fund of NYC
  • Union League of Philadelphia Gold Medal for Citizenship (2006)
  • Rumsfeld has been awarded 11 honorary degrees.
  • Center for Security Policy: Longtime associate; winner of the CSP's 1998 "Keeper of the Flame" award (5)
    • Princeton University: A.B. (1954)
    • John Boyd of OODA Loop fame
       
      • Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control — Reagan Administration (1982 - 1986);
      • President Reagan's Special Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty (1982 - 1983);
      • Senior Advisor to President Reagan's Panel on Strategic Systems (1983 - 1984);
      • Member of the U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations — Reagan Administration (1983 - 1984);
      • President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East (1983 - 1984);
      • Member of the National Commission on the Public Service (1987 - 1990);
      • Member of the National Economic Commission (1988 - 1989);
      • Member of the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University (1988 - 1992);
      • Chairman Emeritus, Defense Contractor, Carlyle Group (1989 - 2005);
      • Member of the Commission on U.S./Japan Relations (1989 - 1991);
      • Member of the Board of Directors for ABB Ltd. (1990 - 2001);
      • FCC's High Definition Television Advisory Committee (1992 - 1993);
      • Chairman, Commission on the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (1998 - 1999);
      • Member of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission (1999 - 2000);
      • Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR);
      • Chairman of the U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization (2000);
      • Honorary Vice-Chancellor of Yale University (2001), honoring Rumsfeld's U.S. foreign policy work.

      That's the factual history.

       

    XXXXXXX____UPDATE_____XXXXXX
    January 8, 2007  

    Steve just couldn't be at peace with his liberal mind.  He had to talk about me on the radio today.  Saying, how he presented the facts, and I was wrong.  You know what, I'll just let my email back to him explain it all.  He just gave the listeners half truths and spun it like a page out of John Kerry's playbook.

    Actual sent email,   Wow, thank you so much Steve for proving my point in my first email. You said you had the facts, and even precluded to going back to your first report to remind yourself of what you said, but today, you didn't even state what your whole point was about. Your whole point was you were disagreeing with the Vice President of the United States in saying, "that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as the greatest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever seen".  It figures, you wouldn't want to tell your listeners again that you disagreed with the Vice President, and that's what Rob's point was all about. Then, to pull some General, that served under Colin Powell, out of your hat like a magical trick. Makes me wonder how long it took you to find something against Donald Rumsfeld, good for you, some retiring General. Why didn't you use him in your first email to me? I'll tell you why, because you used some Democrat wannabe, Chuck Hagel, and I factually shoved him right back down your liberal throat.  I personally think your pathetic, to say your patriotic and pretend you've put one foot in a combat boot to serve this great nation, how dare you be so critical of it.  Ironically, your liberal mouth has to come on a conservative talk show to pay your bills. How sad is that? You don't have to worry about me defending you anymore, I won't.  I'm actually sorry I ever tried to persuade anyone into thinking you actually put your mind to facts instead of the drive-by spin.

    Now Darby had to weigh in on his comments as well.  This is Darby's email sent to Steve.

    (Actual sent email)

    Dear Mr. M…


    With all due respect, your on-air rebuttal to my colleague’s factual column was as predictable as it was pathetic. You attempted to talk down to him and avoided the list of accomplishments by Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

    Geriatric liberals are just so cute when they’re trying to be condescending.

    And leave it to an aging boomer to quote a drug addict to try and drive home his tired point… was Huxley searching for enlightenment when he spouted those nuggets of wisdom about facts ceasing to exist…?

    Now, I would be the first to admit brother Rob has a slight problem with spelling sometimes, especially when he’s writing about something he’s passionate about. Comically though, you truly did show your inner-elitist when you attempted to correct his, “gramatacal,” errors. That was amusing… but also sad at the same time.

    As a college graduate, and an experienced Wichita radio-guy of 35, or sorry, 36 years, I’m sure you’ve heard of the novelist George Orwell. I find it quite ironic that people of your Leftist leaning ilk tend to rely on Orwellian predictions of an omnipotent Big-Brother to justify your distaste with the way the nation and the world has gone since Islamic Fascists decided to bring their murderous Jihad to our soil. Especially when one ponders the concept of “doublethink.”


    “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”


    Perfect definition for a liberal.

    I heard you today admitting that your programming… “blurs the line between news and entertainment.” That makes your, “news,” program no different than any of the other radio morning shows, like the obscene Todd and Tyler, or the idiotic Kid Kraddick show… no different than Rosie O’Donnell. Everyone is entitled to their opinions… but there’s more irony in your pursuit for broadcast excellence. You’re forced to blur the lines in order to hide your most deep rooted Liberal ideology. You quoted Richard Armitage for crying out loud… the person who actually leaked “covert CIA agent” Valerie Plane’s name to the press, first to Bob Woodward, and then to Bob Novak. But of course you don’t want to mention that do you… that would blow your credibility on the other subject. Cherry-picking information to suit your agenda… hmmm sounds exactly like what your side accuses the President of.

    You revealed yourself to be a liberal by the manner in which you addressed an angry Marine. You probably took a quick look at our website and immediately decided we weren’t your kind of people so you would demonize and or alienate us so that you can attempt elevate yourself intellectually. History will prove Global Warming…? Well, there was an issue of Time Magazine back in 1975… I’m sure you remember, being the journalistic dinosaur, sorry dynamo, that you are… where the environmentalist cough… socialists… tried to have us believing then, that the world was, “cooling.”

    History proved them wrong. When you can predict the weather accurately, get back to me about, “man-made,” climate change. And the class warfare crack about rich kids and tax breaks… I’m far from a rich kid Mr. M… I earned the money… the government should give it back.



    And one more bit of irony Sir, while you obviously slant to the Left, you make your good living off of libertarians, conservatives, and, “right-wing,” extremists.

    That’s not only ironic… that’s hypocrisy.





    Have a great day,

    Demolition Darby

    PatrioticThunder.com
     

     

    Damn, I wish I could write like that.  Talk about reaching up someone's rectum to find their head just to take use their own words to shove down their esophagus.  Of course Mr. M wouldn't have the desire to respond to Darby.  Darby is miles ahead of Mr. M. on the pathway of being intellectual and factual.

     

 

 

 

 

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