Reagan/Clinton Mendacities

[Tim Ware]

Which congressmen?

On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Bob Norton wrote:

> 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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