{"id":4592,"date":"2009-04-16T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2009-08-23T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T22:40:58","slug":"horseshoes-and-hand-grenades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4592","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoes and Hand Grenades"},"content":{"rendered":"

After eight years of dubbing non-Klansman John Ashcroft “AshKKKroft”, comparing emphatic non-Nazis George Bush, Dick Cheney and Arnold Scharzenegger to Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich, and calling every economic downturn on a Republican’s watch “The Worst Since The Depression (TM)”, some lefties have found accuracy they can believe in<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Comparing the Tea Parites to the Boston Tea Party is historically inaccurate”, I’ve heard more than a few lefties insist. “They were protesting against taxation without representation”.<\/p>\n

Well, true, as far as it goes.\u00a0 Of course, the “Tea Party” idiom has grown over the centuries to mean – in regular conversation – any kind of blow against arrogant, wastrel authority, but no matter.\u00a0 The interesting bit for me is “what did the forefathers of these suddently-accurate lefties do when it was their turn to strike a blow for strict, pointillistic accuracy?”<\/p>\n

So I dug through the archives.<\/p>\n

May 8, 1945, New York (AP): Bob DeGrasse is having nothing to do with “VE Day”.<\/p>\n

“We haven’t defeated Europe”, DeGrasse emphasizes, nervously twisting the ends of his stylized van dyk beard. “we defeated Germany<\/em>, which in German is called Deutschland.\u00a0 <\/em>This observance should be called “VD Day” or, to be completely accurate, Sieg Trotz Deutschland<\/em>, or “STD”, Day.<\/p>\n

“There really is no honest alternative”.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

January 31, 1999, Seattle (UPI) – As the world awaits the historic, and possibly fraught, switchover to the new millenium, many worry about possible terrorist strikes expanding on the confusion.<\/p>\n

Phoebe Napolitino disagrees.<\/p>\n

“The new Millennium”, she enounces carefully, “doesn’t begin until January 1, 2001”.\u00a0 She perches her horn-rimmed glasses on her nose.\u00a0 “By which I mean, the first of January, 2001, or New Years day of 2001”.<\/p>\n

“Terrorists wont’ strike ’til then”.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

June 9, 1933, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (Tass) – Dmitri Holodomoriuk has had it up to here with Soviet prosecutors.<\/p>\n

“All these people being taking away for “right-wing activity”, Holodomoriuk muttered under his breath “are mostly just peasants who never had a political thought in their…”<\/p>\n

Holodomoriuk’s sentence was intewrrupted by being grabbed and thrown into a Black Maria, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n

Peoples’ Commissariat spokeswoman Zhanina Napolitanska has not returned comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

History shows the importance of accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After eight years of dubbing non-Klansman John Ashcroft “AshKKKroft”, comparing emphatic non-Nazis George Bush, Dick Cheney and Arnold Scharzenegger to Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich, and calling every economic downturn on a Republican’s watch “The Worst Since The Depression (TM)”, some lefties have found accuracy they can believe in. “Comparing the Tea Parites to the Boston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-language","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}