Rush Limbaugh: Media Suppression (60th Anniversary of Atomic Bomb)

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 8/5/05 | Rush Limbaugh

[wagglebee]

Reuters reports: “As the world prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the 1st atomic bomb on Saturday, some American media experts see uncomfortable echoes between the suppression of images of death and destruction then, and coverage of the war in Iraq today.”

Reuters cites an article in Editor & Publisher by Greg Mitchell, claiming American officials seized film after the “atomic attacks” on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prevent us from seeing the devastation. Mitchell compares this to Iraq: “The chief similarity is that Americans are still being kept at a distance from images of death, whether of their own soldiers or Iraqi civilians.”

Well, I’m a “media expert” too, and there is no doubt that atomic weapons caused massive devastation. That’s why we only needed two of them to end the war and why we’ve never had to use them since. Thank goodness we completed ours before the Germans completed theirs. Want to talk “suppression”? How about images from the unprovoked attack at Pearl Harbor? Or from the chemical weapons Japan dropped on China? How about images from 9/11? Those are being supressed are they not, Mr. Mitchell?

I know why you liberal media guys want gruesome images from Iraq out there — so you can use them to shift public opinion against the war. It’s the strategy that you think you successfully used during Vietnam when no other “media experts” questioned your tactics or agenda because they were fellow liberals. Well, those days are over. And, by the way: No apologies for Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It was war. We won. It's a celebration.

[wagglebee]

I know why you liberal media guys want gruesome images from Iraq out there — so you can use them to shift public opinion against the war. It’s the strategy that you think you successfully used during Vietnam when no other “media experts” questioned your tactics or agenda because they were fellow liberals. Well, those days are over. And, by the way: No apologies for Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It was war. We won. It's a celebration.

Incredible!

[Ode To Ted Kennedys Liver]

Thank goodness we completed ours before the Germans completed theirs.

Iran and Syria, I just hope to goodness, you get yours next.

[wagglebee]

Iran and Syria, I just hope to goodness, you get yours next.

You mean the Hiroshima-Nagasaki treatment right?

[wagglebee]

What is your source on that?

[somemoreequalthanothers]

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[wagglebee]

I guess it's a slow night over in DUmmieland.

[BallyBill]

My sisters and I may never have been born if it wasn't for the A Bombs. My dad was stationed in the South Pacific at the time waiting for orders. The war ended before he had to go any farther east. Give Em Hell, Harry. Maybe the greatest Democrat President.

[Capn TrVth]

Can any of us imagine an Iraq, of 15 years from now, -where Americans would feel safe enough to bring and raise Families there?

Does that sound completely unlikely to you?

If so, consider the following:

Within a decade of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese American relations were booming, trade was good, and the enmity was all but gone.

How can I say this?

-I- was one of those American babies born in Japan, not too far from Ground Zero, and only 15 years after the fact.

Think about my personal story in the context of Iraq and the Middle East, things change, -time heals wounds.

Never question for even a second, that we are doing the right thing in Iraq and abroad.

The World will be a better place for our efforts in this WAR on terror.

On this day each year, as I stop to ponder the tragedy of the lives lost, -I am struck with the profound reality of just how much BETTER the world was, just a very short time after Japan's surrender.

Whurd to yo' Mammasan, -Cap'n TrVth

[wagglebee]

Give Em Hell, Harry. Maybe the greatest Democrat President.

Democrat Presidents of the 20th Century:
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
Truman
JFK
LBJ
Carter
Clinton

With the possible exception of JFK, I would say the only decent one.

[M Kehoe]

Just curious, did you sign up today just for this article?

5.56mm

[wagglebee]

By "you people," I presume you are using the term as all leftists do. Aren't you late for an anti-war, pro-abortion, homosexual wedding or something like that?

[Taft in '52]

When the Atom Bomb Fell

Oh, it went up so loud, it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a big ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire, it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away, there the cruel Japs did lay.
The answer to our fighting boys' prayers, yes, Lord,
The answer to our fighting boys' prayers.

There was no atheist in the foxholes,
And men who never prayed before
Lifted tired and bloodshot eyes to heaven
And begged the Lord to end that awful war.
They told him of their homes and loved ones.
They told him that they'd like to be there.
I believe the bomb that struck Hiroshima
Was the answer to a fighting boy's prayer.

Oh, it went up so loud, it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a big ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire, it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away, there the cruel Japs did lay.
The answer to our fighting boys' prayers, yes, Lord,
The answer to our fighting boys' prayers.

Karl & Harty
Columbia Records #36892
1945

[wagglebee]

Thanks for the great perspective!

[ncountylee]

Just peeked in at DU, love seeing issue after issue fall apart and disappear. Hackett down to just 1 whine now.

[wagglebee]

I can't wait to see them the night Roberts gets confirmed, it will be almost as good as election night.

[Ode To Ted Kennedys Liver]

Look at the pretty colors, ma!