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Kathleen Parker, The Barry Lynn of The South

Akagi2 Wrote: Aug 15, 2009 2:32 PM
Can please someone tell me what Jews, their influence on the Russian Revolution, their influence in banking, etc have to do with KP's libel of the South?

There are few Jews in the South and the ones that are tend to be solid Democratic, Obama-backers.

There was Judah P. Benjamin who was the Confederate Secretary of State and Jewish, but hardly see how this is related either.

Pistol:

The quote comes from Battle of Spotsylvania Court House by Union General John Sedgwick and was killed by Confederate Sharpshooters.

The actual account doesn't differ much from my account here except he did it seems finish the sentence (although it is often told as I did that he didn't).

The point was that he was...

Just as the left pioneered "AstroTurf" protesters -- homeless people lured to demonstrations with the offer of a free T-shirt and a box lunch -- liberals have also specialized in producing fake "insiders" denouncing their alleged group.

There were the "winter soldiers" -- fake Vietnam veterans claiming to have personally disemboweled babies in Vietnam. It took 30 years and the publication of the book "Stolen Valor" to establish that the bulk of them were utter frauds who had never seen combat -- some had never seen Vietnam. (Shockingly, to this day, the Wikipedia entry on the winter soldiers treats their...

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