Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NoBody Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Snopes Finally Debunks Left-Wing Claim of "Very Fine People" in Charlottesville Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:23:44 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <76608j1j0di7gie4m8vsu8ik5uke92feuf@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:23:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6910dfdebd35e52b4ca7386f76ec162b"; logging-data="4151589"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tBYWnKbd1uSJiVSXUeutf2+F5XHI3AfU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:O2HtZQihq77r6gJfNHwGncdBEp4= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240629-6, 6/29/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 2561 On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:39:52 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >BTR1701 wrote: > >>It's seven years after the fact and the damage has long since been done, but >>the left-wing fact checkers at Snopes have finally come out and admitted the >>whole claim that Trump called neo-Nazis "very fine people" was a hoax. I have >>no idea why, but credit where it's due, I suppose? > >>https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ > >Eh > >It's another example of the more Trump talked, the more he buried >himself. There was no way for him to win. He should have ignored it, or >limited his comments to condemning the murder. > >I don't put the "let's go beat up Nazis" counterprotestors on a high >moral plane. As far as I could tell, the protestors on both sides had >pretty low morals. > >I've personally objected to the removal of Civil War monuments making >the generals god-like, but MY reason is rather different than the >neo-Nazis: I don't think the modern generation should be re-writing >history. A past generation erected those monuments and we need to look >the ugliness of American history square in the face so we never forget >that Civil War generals were honored by certain Americans for the modern >politics of that era. > >I despite prettying up history. Trump was still wrong. And yet the media line on this subject is FINALLY debunked and you blame Trump.