Another CNN whoring: "George Bush - Flyboy" (confusing Jr. & Sr.)

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

In another thread, I was discussing Paula Zahn's upcoming kiss-ass fest called "George Bush: A Flyboy's Story" with another poster, LostandFound. There was some confusion about which one they meant. I just saw the commercial for it and now I know why!

They say George Bush about three times and never say which one they are talking about. Then they show a picture of a young pilot. It is really Sr. but he looks exactly like Jr. in the picture. The title doesn't distinguish between them either. Do you get the feeling this won't be the last time we see this "confusion"?

It's really about Sr. in WW II of course, but I didn't hear them mention which war they were talking about - just heard "flyboy" and George Bush" over and over. The only reason I know that it's about WW II and Sr. is I saw it in the TV Guide.

[Jacobin]

1. Hey, flying jets around Texas can be dangerous

If you have to bail out, your ass might land on a cactus!!!

/sarcasm

[Sequoia]

2. I heard it too

but in the end of the commercial they said senior really fast and low so most people don't catch it. Curses!!!

[oneighty]

4. Man

crashes his plane into the ocean. His crew is lost. He becomes a war hero. Bullshit.

180

[izzie]

3. Father only killed his co-pilot as I under stood it so guess that is not t

Unless you were the co-pilots family. I also read father was in the warm water about a half hour when a sub picked him up. This was going to be looked into but father's father was Prescott so???????? This is not a family of heroes or get there on your own, this is a cash in on name family. Like in England which we all could not wait to get out of.

[bleedingheart]

5. The question is... Did GHWB join the armed services before or after

his old man got caught with his fingers in the Nazi cookie jar?

[madrchsod]

8. if i remember right

he enter the service after they got caught..to much info to store,i need more memorey.

[bleedingheart]

11. if that is the case...then his enlistment was a PR move

to help his dad

[CWebster]

6. Exactly, I picked up the same thing

An obvious ploy to extend the wartime heroic hero mantle onto moron son.

[leetrisck]

7. Picked up a few excerpts from this

and don't really understand. Someone discovered something about something from long ago and now are really working hard to make Poppy bush out to be some big hero - detest these people. One doesn't haven't to look any further than Walter Reed if they want heroes.

[myopinion]

9. Oh yea, some sort of hero, more like zero.

From :
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/08/60078.php

pResident Bush & his Dad are both card carrying cowards. It's in their blood.

Snip’s

“. His World War II
jump is historic. It made Bush the only president to ever bail out of an
airplane and the only president whose crew mates were sent careening into the
ocean because their pilot had abandoned the aircraft.”
“After 44 years of silence, Mierzejewski, who also was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross, told the New York Post that Bush had abandoned
his crew to death when there was another choice. “
“He said he was approximately 100 feet in front of Bush's plane as the turret
gunner for Squadron Commander Douglas Melvin's plane, "so close he could see
in the cockpit" of Bush's bomber.”
“Mierzejewski said the Avenger torpedo bomber was engineered so that it could
successfully crash land on water and that Bush doomed his own crew by bailing
out and leaving the bomber out of control. “
"In an Avenger, only the pilot wore a parachute," …. "The two
crewmen wore harnesses. If the order came to bail out, they had to take chest
parachutes from a shelf and strap them on - and bail out. The Avenger was
very unstable. The pilot had to be at the controls the whole time or it would
go right over on its back."

Note, and of course there is always the bush cover-up.

“The report was signed by Melvin and an intelligence officer, Lt. Martin E.
Kilpatrick. Contrary to normal military procedure, the report was not dated
and Navy archives were unable to supply a subsequently completed report.”

[tom_paine]

10. Standard Mockingbird Op

Like the Afrikaner Broederbund in 1947, there is not a single major media outlet that doesn't have it's contingent of Bushevik Loyalists inside (promoting each other regardless of merit wherever possible, just like the Broederbund, until they occupy a majority of the power positions).

Disgusting, the way this once-free, once-proud nation is having the Yoke of Tyranny placed aorund it's neck without a peep or worry.

[lostnfound]

12. You're making me feel better for my mistake :-)

Frankly, after 10 minutes of the story about Kobe Bryant I had HAD it with CNN; the flyboy teaser pushed me over the edge and I turned the TV off.

All you can really do some days is laugh and shake your head.