PBS Likens Trump to Nazi Sympathizer Charles Lindbergh

[GtHawk]

Even less known about Lindbergh was his patriotic response, like millions of Americans, after Pearl Harbor. After FDR refused his request to re-enter the service he flew dozens of missions in the Pacific as a 'civilian consultant'.

And as a consultant wasn't he the one that developed flight procedures that made it possible for our bombers to fly further on the fuel they carried which enabled longer missions and insured more air crews made it home?

http://www.charleslindbergh.com/wwii/

[goatprairie]

Government has NO business at all subsidizing any form of media period! End of sentence!

so you say wf Buckley’s “firing line” should not have been on public tv?

[goatprairie]

The headline (and the topic, by the way) is 'Nazi Sympathizer Charles Lindbergh'.
Firstly, this is an ignorant slander from PBS, a lefty media shill.
Lindbergh was NOT a Nazi sympathizer; rather he was a militant opponent of our entry q
into the Great War who supported America First.
Reflecting, that War was one of the greatest tragedies ever visited on Mankind and from which
Europe has never recovered. As important, it was NEVER ANY OF OUR GOD-DAM BUSINESS!!!
Many wise heads opposed our entry but POTUS Wilson, insisted, yet why?
Because Great Britain was effectively bankrupt having borrowed, on Wall Street, multiple tens of billions to finance their war effort which was teetering on the battlefield by 1917.
Consequently the fat wallet gang were extremely agitated that if Germany won the War
they wouldn't get their money back. Cold reality!
So they beseeched and pressured the feckless and impressionable Wilson; a schoolteacher
academic who was easily persuadable as well as desperate for notoriety and his place in history.
As man is not clairvoyant, he cannot know the future. Nevertheless the ageless virtue of prudence asserts that leaders must assess any decision they make now be measured against its possible consequences in the future.
Since 1900 how many of our leaders have earned the label prudent???

WWII."....not I

[Bigun]

so you say wf Buckley’s “firing line” should not have been on public tv?

I said EXACTLY what you quoted and stand by that 100%.

[musiclady]

so you say wf Buckley’s “firing line” should not have been on public tv?

I'm with @Bigun  - no matter how great the programming is (and as a musician, I say the programming is great), it should NOT be funded by the taxpayer........ unless the taxpayer is a donor.

It doesn't matter if it's Buckley or Beethoven.  It should be funded privately by foundations and individual donors, NOT the Government.

[truth_seeker]

I do not object to some public funding of "the arts" like music, architecture, etc.

In the history of "public" TV and radio, the content was often quite good, essentially non-partisan. Austin City Limites music.

But some "public" channels are highlly partisan. For example "Pacifica." Bay area, LA, Houston. Openly communist.

[Absalom]

WWII."....not I

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No. The Great War was WW1, during which Lindbergh matured.
His later writings clearly reflected his opposition to our entry.
WW2 was the result of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

[musiclady]

I do not object to some public funding of "the arts" like music, architecture, etc.

In the history of "public" TV and radio, the content was often quite good, essentially non-partisan. Austin City Limites music.

But some "public" channels are highlly partisan. For example "Pacifica." Bay area, LA, Houston. Openly communist.

Public funding of the arts got us "Piss Christ." (At taxpayer expense).

It's far better to fund it with private foundations.

There is plenty of money out there.

[skeeter]

There were plenty of people who praised what Hitler was doing in Germany in the 1930s.   And Anti-Semitism was pretty much a part of every European country at the time.    It was only after Krystallnacht, that many started to realize just how bad it was in Nazi Germany.

Just as many Americans crowed about what the Soviets were doing in the 20s (oddly, they aren't referred to as 'Commie sympathizers' today).

Hindsight is 20/20.

[mountaineer]

Joe Kennedy, Sr., now that was a Nazi sympathizer!

[mortarman]

Joe Kennedy, Sr., now that was a Nazi sympathizer!

Yeah, didn't the British Gubmint have him PNG'd because of his Pro-Nazi views? Or was it because he got rich off of smuggling guns into Ireland an' booze into the US during Prohibition. Then of course he used that wealth to buy the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James an' possibly JFK's political career.

 

[Fishrrman]

"On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show, PBS/CNN International host Christiane Amanpour..."

That's all I need to know NOT to waste my time with it.
She is... a communist in particular and a traitor to Western Civilization in general.

[240B]

"On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show, PBS/CNN International host Christiane Amanpour..."

That's all I need to know NOT to waste my time with it.
She is... a communist in particular and a traitor to Western Civilization in general.

That is the description of a Muslim.

[musiclady]

Yeah, didn't the British Gubmint have him PNG'd because of his Pro-Nazi views? Or was it because he got rich off of smuggling guns into Ireland an' booze into the US during Prohibition. Then of course he used that wealth to buy the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James an' possibly JFK's political career.

 

A real peach that Joe was....   

[goatprairie]

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No. The Great War was WW1, during which Lindbergh matured.
His later writings clearly reflected is opposition to our entry.
WW2 was the result of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

most of the controversy concerning Lindbergh stems from his opposition to the Second World War not the first.

[Absalom]

most of the controversy concerning Lindbergh stems from his opposition to the Second World War not the first.

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Goat, respectfully.
We chose to enter the Great War.
We replied to a Japanese attack in WW2.
A big distinction because of a great difference.
Anyway, peace.

[sneakypete]

PBS will never change for so long as it gets OUR tax money to prop it up without having to compete in the marketplace.

@Bigun

PBS relies on contributions from viewers,not just the feral government. The feral government holds the broadcast license,but they don't really fund all the programs,and they get no money from the contributions.

[EdinVA]

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Goat, respectfully.
We chose to enter the Great War.
We replied to a Japanese attack in WW2.
A big distinction because of a great difference.
Anyway, peace.

Japan and Germany had been on the "war path" for several years before pearl harbor.
There was a huge debate in the US about entering/not entering the war and we had decided to stay out until Japan bombed HI.

[sneakypete]

Many wise heads opposed our entry but POTUS Wilson, insisted, yet why?

King Roosevelt was our illustrious leader at the time,not Wilson.

[sneakypete]

Public funding of the arts got us "Piss Christ." (At taxpayer expense).

It's far better to fund it with private foundations.

There is plenty of money out there.

@musiclady

So,you object to Freedom of Speech? Who you you nominate to lead the Thought Police if you had that power.

And a large part of PBS IS funded by donations. I guess if you wanted to stretch the truth you could say it all is because donations can be taken off your taxes,but nobody forces you to contribute.

[sneakypete]

Yeah, didn't the British Gubmint have him PNG'd because of his Pro-Nazi views? Or was it because he got rich off of smuggling guns into Ireland an' booze into the US during Prohibition. Then of course he used that wealth to buy the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James an' possibly JFK's political career.

 

@mortarman

Old Man Joe was an Irish Catholic,which at THAT time meant he put Ireland ahead of the US and everywhere else,and the Nazi's were funding the IRA. Since the Nazi's and the IRA were goombas,what else was a "good Catholic Boy" to do?

[Absalom]

King Roosevelt was our illustrious leader at the time, not Wilson.

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Wilson was POTUS from 1913 to 1921.
We entered the Great War in 1917!!!!!

[mortarman]

Wilson wasn't all that great. He was a big time racist. His first act as President was to fire 5,000 Civil Service workers simply for the fact they were black. The KKK also marched in his second inaugural parade an' he tried to make Jim Crow federal law.

 

[sneakypete]

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Wilson was POTUS from 1913 to 1921.
We entered the Great War in 1917!!!!!

@Absalom

So what? The discussion was about WW-2,Lindbergh,and the traitor known as Old man Joe Kennedy.

[Absalom]

@Absalom
So what? The discussion was about WW-2,Lindbergh,and the traitor known as Old man Joe Kennedy.

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The headline of the post asserted that Lindbergh was a Nazi Sympathizer;
an ignorant slander from PBS, a left wing mouthpiece. He emphatically was not.
Maturing during the Great War (WW1), Lindbergh  opposed our entry,
because he was an American Firster; as were tens of thousands of his fellow citizens.
Most critically that War was none of our damned business any more than the Crimean War was!
But Wilson persisted and got us involved, achieving nothing other than internationalizing our politics;
a huge negative.
WW2, the Nazi's, Kennedy are irrelevant, occurring a generation after the Great War of 1914-18!