World At War, No, You On The Homefront Too

1:49 am EST September 25th, 2007 | News | 7 Comments

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Watching part 2 of Ken Burn’s PBS documentary on The War and while discussing the effort to ramp up production on the home front for the war effort, one of the pictures they showed of a factory floor had the sign: This Is Our Busy Day, Today We Work For Uncle Sam.

Talk about shared national purpose, shared national sacrifice, shared work, and shared victory. That’s a world away from outsourcing to possible gun runners and the exhortation to “go shopping” to do our part after 9/11. The very idea that Franklin Roosevelt and George W. Bush shared the White House is astounding, Bush isn’t fit to be in Fala‘s stool, let alone the White House.

ALSO: The wingnuts at Ace Of Spades are very very upset that Ken Burns is accurately depicting the historical fact that America imprisoned Japanese Americans in internment camps. I’m a huge fan of President Roosevelt and find him to be easily the greatest president we’ve ever had, but I’m not stupid enough to not say that the internment camps were one of the most horrible and shameful things we’ve done as a nation and we should be well aware of what we did.

Plus, it’s a historical documentary and the internment actually freaking happened. In conservativeland, nobody can hear you think.

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7 Responses to “World At War, No, You On The Homefront Too”

  1. megamoze says:
    September 25, 2007 at 3:16 am

    You’d think that they’d be HAPPY about the coverage. Haven’t the wingnuts been cheerleading just this sort of policy for Muslim-Americans since 9-11?

    PS: Oliver, I’m posting “anonymously” because Typekey is giving me an error message that you haven’t signed up for that service.

  2. bill l. says:
    September 25, 2007 at 3:56 am

    I think you meant “not stupid enough to say the internment camps weren’t one of the most horrible and shameful things we’ve done as a nation.”

  3. SpiderJ says:
    September 25, 2007 at 9:46 am

    Bah. This poster is outdated. What makes America great is the freedom to own and drive cars of obscene sizes that laugh in the face of fuel economy. It reminds us how big and important we are when our cars are so monstrous.

    Just, uh, not in San Francisco.

  4. Colorado Dave says:
    September 25, 2007 at 11:17 am

    My favorite WWII era conservation poster is the “When you drive alone you drive with Hitler” poster.

    That’s a hilarious picture Spider J.

    I get the same Typekey error message.

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    September 25, 2007 at 11:24 am

    I don’t know why that is, but if you register with the site you should be able to avoid the error.

  6. OxyCon says:
    September 25, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    Why is the Ass of Spades so upset with showing the internment of Japanese Americans? I thought all wingnuts like interring non-whites. Michelle Malkin wrote a book on it, and you know how the right wingnuts cream their jeans over her hate speech.

  7. Robster says:
    September 25, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Didn’t those nuts read Michelle Malkin’s book?