Bad Reporter by Don Asmussen

Bad Reporter

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  1. ne7minder55

    ne7minder55 said, 7 months ago

    Here is a comparison of Ike and Davie – one guy defeated Nazi Germany & saved Europe the other guy, well he would fit right in at a reunion for vets of The Great Patriotic War given his love of bling
    http://pavlovianobeisance.com/images/generals_medals.jpg

  2. wildcatherder

    wildcatherder said, 7 months ago

    You know you are having a bad week when you make all three panels of “Bad Reporter”

  3. Wabbit

    Wabbit said, 7 months ago

    What is the reason republicans don’t like PBS? It is less that .01%, a lot less of the total budget. It was one of my favorites to watch.
    My kids grew up watching Sesame Street.

  4. omwae

    omwae said, 7 months ago

    .. another Shephard – de-flocked..

    sigh.. could be worse – he could have been ‘shorn’.

  5. Larry

    Larry said, 7 months ago

    “Mounting Evidence….” Ha ha!

  6. prrdh

    prrdh said, 7 months ago

    @ne7minder55

    Another comparison: Ike lived at a time when the military custom was to wear only a few of the decorations he had earned, while nowadays the custom is to put everything up front. It’s the military culture in general, rather than Petraeus in particular, that has the ‘love of bling’.

    Also, saying that Ike ‘defeated Nazi Germany’ is like saying Mussolini defeated Greece. Somewhere between nine and eleven million Soviet soldiers died from 1939 on, first defending their motherland against Hitler and then attacking the Reich itself, while the United States didn’t get involved in the ETO until late 1942 and lost fewer than half a million soldiers in both theaters, including those wasted in fiascoes like Hurtgen Forest and the Bulge, both of which happened because Eisenhower was too busy living it up in Paris to pay any attention to what the I&R grunts had to say. Without Leningrad and Stalingrad and Kursk, the Western Allies wouldn’t have stood a chance. The credit for defeating Nazi Germany goes first of all to Hitler and secondly to Zhukov. As for Petraeus, my impression is that he was respected by his troops in a way that Ike never was. Ike should be given credit as a politician, for getting the likes of Monty and Patton to fight on the same side, which was a monumental achievement, but as a military leader he was mediocre at best. And don’t forget that Petraeus doesn’t have an unlimited supply of conscripted cannon fodder as Eisenhower did to fall back on when he blundered.

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