winston churchill

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Somebody needs to scrape this pathetic conservative talk-show host off the pavement after showing that he has no idea who Neville Chamberlain was even as he tries to tie him to Barack Obama:

Roger Cohen offers a stark analysis in the International Herald Tribune:

Winston Churchill said that Russian politics are akin to watching dogs fight under a carpet. This interview makes me wish that American politics were waged under that same carpet. Rush Limbaugh once said that Katie Couric was the Eva Braun of the American Left. I have always wondered what the hell that meant. It's bad enough to go Godwin, but to mix metaphors and violate Godwin's law at the same time demonstrates that the guy isn't so sharp. Anyhow, it is impossible to come up with some slap-

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Not so good (AFP):

LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

One-fourth of Britons think that Winston Churchill is a mythical character and well more than half think that Sherlock Holmes was real. Read it and weep.

“A joke is a very serious thing,” said Winston Churchill, who ran a nation, during a war.  Apparently, Winston.

So, someone wasn’t amused by my post about Mercy Me’s new blog. It’s a good blog.  My friend Brody built it.  Check it out. 

Someone thought my post was a little mean to Mercy Me, who, by the way, has a new blog.  It’s a good blog.  My friend Brody built it. Check it out.

Jon Wright receives an email attributing a misquoted famous FDR line to Winston Churchill:

What’s the matter? Rather look like an idiot than let the knuckledraggers know you’re actually (badly mis-) quoting a Democrat?

This survey speaks generally to conservatives' tendency to be ethnocentric.

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