Comments on: Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Sees Advantage to London Attacks

By: Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative

Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:04:01 +0000

Friday London Updates

I'll add other updates later but for now I'm using Memeorandum and a couple of other sources to compile an update of news articles and blog posts from today. News articles/Editorials: NRO AP Financial Times CNN TCS The Telegraph WSJ...

By: John Thacker

John Thacker — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:42:24 +0000

They removed the earlier part of the quote, FWIW. I'd have to go dig it up. Suffice it to say, "they" in that quote is referring to the G8 leaders. He's arguing that, if it was going to happen, the silver lining is that all the G8 leaders were in the same country to witness it, and that the shared experience could convince all of them that terrorism is important and that they have to work together. "They" is not the people of the UK.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:41:44 +0000

Even after WW II, it was the LABOR government and particularly the foreign secretary Ernest Bevin that keep Jews out of Palestine. Jews stopped from entering Palestine were even held by the Labor government in former Nazi camps.

By: Lurking Observer

Lurking Observer — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:55:50 +0000

Jim Henley:

When Jews sought to get into Britain, the same government that believed that Hitler's demands were reasonable, that believed that German failures to abide by treaties were not worth going to war over, that believed that aiding Spanish Republicans was less important than abiding by League of Nations rulings (even when they were being violated by the same Germans) said "No, go away" to them.

Apparently, some things don't change.

Of course, that was not the government of Winston Churchill, who was the political wilderness for advocating that the Chamberlain government go to war over the Anschluss and the Sudetenland.

By: Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis)

Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis) — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:19:43 +0000

The London bombings

The Associated Press is reporting that the death toll has risen above 50. Coverage: Michelle Malkin (also here) (sorry Michelle,...

By: Jim Rhoads (vnjagvet)

Jim Rhoads (vnjagvet) — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:46:44 +0000

Mr. Henley's attempted revisionist history of 1939 and 1940 England is more revealing of the propagandistic distortions rampant in Democratic elitist thought.

FDR, Churchill's great wartime friend and ally would turn over in his grave were he to hear this coming from his party's advocates. Thus proving the point of Zell Miller's book about his disenchantment with the party of his ancestors which he so nobly served.

By: CM

CM — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:01:47 +0000

The transcript shows the full context, that it's important that the leaders of the world be together at a time like this. And Michael Moore (of Why-didn't-the-terrorists-target-Bush-voters fame) linking to this is rich.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:56:46 +0000

Well, Media Matters couldn't harp on the media's use of the word "Borking" forever, I suppose. So they find something else to bitch about.

By: Timbo

Timbo — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:47:01 +0000

Jim Henley, you need to check out your facts before commenting. Winston Churchill was NOT the prime minister of Great Britain in 1939. He had been out of government for quite a few years (his view of the world was not thought of highly even by many in his own party). After the outbreak of WW II in September 1939, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and then rose to Prime Minister in May 1940 when Chamberlain's feckless government fell. It was many of his previously stated positions that made others suddenly look upon him with a different eye as Europe fell to the Nazis.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:36:00 +0000

The moonbats are just looking to be offended, but their problem lately is it's the truth that is offending. I wonder how they got that way.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:44:18 +0000

Also, I believe England was in charge of a colony called Palestine at that time where various Jews tried to go. Did Churchill let 'em in?

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:43:06 +0000

Say, when Jews tried to get into Britain in the runup to 1939, how did it work out for them?

By: Lurking Observer

Lurking Observer — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:15:25 +0000

Churchill claimed, in his memoirs, that he was relieved by the news of Pearl Harbor.

As he noted, he "went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and the thankful."

No doubt, also sickening and despicable.

But then again, Churchill was a warmonger who advocated preemptive war against a nation that had committed no aggression as of 1938 (by modern liberal standards). And hadn't even started killing Jews in batch lots yet.

By: herb

herb — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:02:33 +0000

Funny how the lefties go bananas when someone says something that is right on target