Reagan/Clinton Mendacities

[Bob Norton]

We should not forget that when Bill Clinton went to France for the 50th
anniversary of D-Day, he had some of his people knock over grave markers so
that he could be photographed straightening them back up. He also stole the
pebbles on some tombstones so that he could be photgraphed putting them on
other ones in a lame imitation of an old Jewish ritual to honor the dead.
This was observed by several Congressmen who commented on the matter before
Congress but the news media chose not to touch this one at all. 

>A-and while we're on Reagan and history, there was an international D-Day 
>anniversary event in 1985, and the Reagan Administration provided a huge 
>wad of briefing material for the press, going beyond the Normandy 
>campaign to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany on all fronts and by all 
>of the Allied powers -- except that the Soviet participation in the war 
>was edited completely out of the story.  Orwell woulda loved it, and so, 
>perhaps, did Pynchon.  Here and there, a reporter or two complained about 
>this, but their publishers did that same glazing-of-the-eyes act, and the 
>rest is not history.
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