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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:34 PM Original message |
History Channel -- WHY do they do all day Hitler programming? |
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NewWaveChick1981 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. I used to joke that the History Channel was really the World War II Channel in disguise. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Military History is one think - All Hitler all day is another |
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philosophie_en_rose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's basically the Hitler channel. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 01:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Ken Burns referred to it as the "Hitler Channel" yesterday |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because their programming director |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Must get ratings |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. but re-hashing all the same BS to get ratings? |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. all the former high-brow networks have dumbed down... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. Doug used to call A&E the Adolf and Eva Channel. |
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liberaldemocrat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 05:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. You just wait until historians discuss Paula Hitler, his sister. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 06:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Wasn't that his sister who lived in England and who he visited as a young man? |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
8. I agree |
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lynnertic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 07:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
42. yes but WWII documentaries are probably CHEAP to make. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
9. Because their programming director is developmentally arrested at 12 years old? |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Here, email them and bitch, they re owned by A&E Networks |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I'd save the electrons |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because 'executive privilege'... |
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chaska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
13. I saw a quote the other day that applies... |
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liberaldemocrat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
35. According to the Lancet magazine Bush has killed over 500,000 innocent Iraqis with his invasion. |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
14. We're all still nuts about Hitler. |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Everybody loves Hitler... |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Perverted, isn't it? |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Nice post, Goebbels |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Hey you misspelled Gerbbels there genius... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Because I was too lazy to google |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 03:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I liked the musical "Springtime for Hitler". |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. "Don't be schtupid; be a schmarty! Come and join the Nazi Party!" |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Classic! |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
21. Is there some other History channel I'm not getting? |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. Waaaaaahhhhh! |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. Lazy and |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. It's always been a right-wing-leaning station |
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CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
39. They are trying to get this into the classrooms more |
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camero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
28. To soften us up for what's to come. n/t |
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blitzen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
30. hmmm...must be watching a different History channel.... |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
31. Why do you hate America? |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
32. It was the first and only extensively filmed major war. |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 06:20 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. That's the best answer I've ever seen to this question |
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S n o w b a l l (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
33. Because we must bomb Iran... |
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Zomby Woof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
38. No one is forcing you to watch it |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
40. Number of times Hitler has been brought up in GD this year |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-14-07 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
41. I don't know, but I still get excited when |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
43. Lots of Bible and Hitler |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-15-07 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
44. 50 years from now it will be the "all Bush" channel. |
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