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    OMG, Fox News just said the world is flat!

    I am so not kidding about this either.

    I'm flipping channels and stop to listen to something for a second on Fox News then I notice that on one of those side bar, talking points things that it reads "The World is Flat."

    LMFAO!

    Umm, didn't it get proven like hundreds of years ago that the world is round. But this is Fox News so I guess it should not come as a shock that they would say the world is flat. However, it is still unbelievably funny

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    The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

    fox show o'reilly being bashed
    http://www.youtube.com/w/?v=QHUGCkRO...FkZGVkIXEJYXUu

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    ^^Yeah, they HAD to be talking about the book. It's like a best seller, especially among business majors.
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    It's funny, because I have long hated television, but I might have to start watching it again...

    That clip was the single most eloquent example of oratory I have seen in years, and delivered against the ripest, juiciest, most deserving target--O'Reilly. I was amused by the way Fox tried to change the text of what O'Reilly said from "Malmedy" to "Normandy", where both sides did show no mercy whatsoever in many instances. Nice going.

    He didn't say the world was flat, that I could see, but he might as well have.

    I've read a lot about Joachim Peiper, the golden boy of the SS, and the man ultimately responsible for the Malmedy massacre, even if he may not have been present when it occured. He was murdered by a fire bomb in France many years later. Karma may take a while, but it'll get you in the end...

    So tell me more about this book, The World is Flat. the clip didn't mention it--not that I'm complaining, it was brilliant. Thanks for posting it!
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    ^^I think space-cadaet-28 was making two different points, not really having to do with one another.


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    Yeah, I just got that, lol...

    It was still a great link, though.

    I'm still curious about this book, too--and also what Fox had to say about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser
    It's funny, because I have long hated television, but I might have to start watching it again...

    That clip was the single most eloquent example of oratory I have seen in years, and delivered against the ripest, juiciest, most deserving target--O'Reilly. I was amused by the way Fox tried to change the text of what O'Reilly said from "Malmedy" to "Normandy", where both sides did show no mercy whatsoever in many instances. Nice going.

    He didn't say the world was flat, that I could see, but he might as well have.

    I've read a lot about Joachim Peiper, the golden boy of the SS, and the man ultimately responsible for the Malmedy massacre, even if he may not have been present when it occured. He was murdered by a fire bomb in France many years later. Karma may take a while, but it'll get you in the end...

    So tell me more about this book, The World is Flat. the clip didn't mention it--not that I'm complaining, it was brilliant. Thanks for posting it!
    This shows what a reprehensible peice of offal Bill O'Reilly is.

    The Malmedy Massacre was the single largest mass execution of American prisoners by an enemy in United States history. Given that, its not hard at all to find even the simplest of details about it. The fact that a supposed learned, educated TV pundit can smugly use the wrong facts to try and prove his point against a decorated and experienced military man like General Welsey Clark proves that no one can take anything O'Reilly says seriously.

    Its not just that he fucked up and made a mistake, he twice used that fucked up mistake to soldify his position. Twice.

    Djoser, have you read The Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader by Michael Reynolds? To me that contains the definitive word on Colonel Peiper's culpability in the Malmedy Massacre.

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    Quote Originally Posted by francescadubois
    ^^Yeah, they HAD to be talking about the book. It's like a best seller, especially among business majors.

    I suppose that could be because I did not see what preceded in the discussion but it sure didn't appear to me that they were discussing a book. The topic was about the incident in Canada that made the news today (which I will refrain from bringing up further here in the lounge because it dips into the political arena.) It seemed like they were completely serious about saying the world was literally flat. I found it so absurd and funny that I just had to share.

    I sure hope they were referring to a book but to be honest with FoxNews I wouldn't be surprised if they honestly believed the world was flat

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prester_John
    Djoser, have you read The Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper, Panzer Leader by Michael Reynolds? To me that contains the definitive word on Colonel Peiper's culpability in the Malmedy Massacre.
    No, I haven't--and thanks for the tip. I've read every book I could get my hands on concerning the Bulge, and armored warfare in WW II--including, I believe, another work by Reynolds. I am bad with names and titles, so I could be wrong. One of the books went into a great deal of detail about Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Bulge, including Malmedy.

    I did find it ironically just that the guy died a horrible, if probably quick, death, at the hands of Frenchmen, years after he thought his wartime record was forgotten.
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    Okey Dokey, then! I guess I know which two members to ask if I have some questions or want to discuss military history. That would be Prester_John and Djoser

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    Yes, we are quite the hit whenever we go out to clubs...

    The entire bar will suddenly hush, though you might hear a furtive whisper "There he is--that guy knows all about Byzantine Cataphracts, and the women go nuts over it, too...).

    If we were ever to team up, we'd be mobbed wherever we went, and those Game guys would pay us to tutor them concerning obscure military lore, so they could get action like we do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser
    Yes, we are quite the hit whenever we go out to clubs...

    The entire bar will suddenly hush, though you might hear a furtive whisper "There he is--that guy knows all about Byzantine Cataphracts, and the women go nuts over it, too...).

    If we were ever to team up, we'd be mobbed wherever we went, and those Game guys would pay us to tutor them concerning obscure military lore, so they could get action like we do.
    Let me tell ya, when I start going off about the 3rd Silesian War of 1756-1763, I just KNOW all I have to do is sit back and wait for them to start falling over me, and I will score multiple times that night.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser
    Yeah, I just got that, lol...

    It was still a great link, though.

    I'm still curious about this book, too--and also what Fox had to say about it.
    friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the new york times.
    the book is about how the world is more and more interconnected. lower trade barriers and "globalization." I'm slighlty suspicious because a foriegn affairs columnist is inclined to reach such conclusions. selling well probably because he is somewhat well known. guessing.

    his more famous book is about when he lived in lebanon during the civil war and lived in israel. despite being a jew he takes a very balanced approach.

    probably on fox he was probably being interviewed to promote his book and talk about other topics.

    he has written other books and his highlight may have been when the saudi crown prince offered a peace proposal to israel through him.

    // favorite history book, not a military history:
    // The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prester_John
    Let me tell ya, when I start going off about the 3rd Silesian War of 1756-1763, I just KNOW all I have to do is sit back and wait for them to start falling over me, and I will score multiple times that night.

    Maybe so, but that's nothing compared to my masterful combination of the 'kino' practiced by that pale imitator Mystery, and my description of the development of body armor in the later Roman Empire.

    When I get to the part where they stop wearing cuirasses, they all suddenly remove their tops so I can demonstrate more thoroughly how much more vulnerable they might be.
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    Quote Originally Posted by space_Cadet_28
    friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the new york times.

    // favorite history book, not a military history:
    // The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
    Thanks for filling me in, and sorry for the thread hijack, PJ and I get carried away sometimes with our exploits...

    Both books sound great, I think I've heard of the latter, but both sound like a worthwhile read.
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    Default Re: OMG, Fox News just said the world is flat!

    Wait, lemme get this straight... The world isn't flat?


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    ^ LMAO!

    Apparently the answer to that depends on who talk to

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    "The Earth is Flat" is a good book - perhaps we should add it to the book club going on in the members forum .

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    Just watched the Olbermann video - this is quite the indictment of Fox - getting facts wrong AND then washing transcripts. Holy Moly!

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    Quote Originally Posted by space_Cadet_28
    The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman

    fox show o'reilly being bashed

    Thanks for the youtube clip - that is quite the spanking. I sent it out to the kool aid drinkers I know - this should make for an interesting conversation on other forums heh heh heh.

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    Fox news is a million times better than any other liberal-based media. Also, they are just jealous because fox has more viewers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by exotisch23
    Fox news is a million times better than any other liberal-based media. Also, they are just jealous because fox has more viewers.
    Well that's CNN's fault, more or less. If CNN or MSNBC had anything, um, INTERESTING on they'd get more viewers. Sorry MSNBC, Donahue doesn't cut the mustard (But he may cut the cheese).

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    Quote Originally Posted by exotisch23
    Fox news is a million times better than any other liberal-based media. Also, they are just jealous because fox has more viewers.
    Are you serious? Did you watch that clip? I'm not trying to mess with you, but do you have any idea how wrong it was for O'Reilly to try to fuck with a high ranking military figure by not once, but twice saying butchered American soldiers were murderers? And for them to then alter the transcripts to cover it up?

    Hey, I'm usually the first one to point out that atrocities were commited by both sides during World War II (such as during the brutal fighting in Normandy). But if O'Reilly's going to do so, he needs to get his facts straight, or he loses all credibility--no matter how biased alternate news sources may be.
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    Ehh, Fox news has more viewers because most people are sheep

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette
    Ehh, Fox news has more viewers because most people are sheep
    yeah, SURE.

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