Comments on: July 4th Will Never be the Same

By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:57:02 +0000

Vital to post this for US History to clarify this issue.
Must post to History.com
History Channel.com
Thanks.
Makes July 4th Mean something now.
Let the Public Know.
Change our History books.

By: nb

nb — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:55:13 +0000

P.S. It was a cherry tree…

By: Saul Goode

Saul Goode — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:22:46 +0000

You do know Noah has a new blog, right?
http://blog.wired.com/defense/

By: ajay

ajay — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:45:57 +0000

But — but they were insurgents! Shouldn’t they have been tortured? After all, they certainly hadn’t signed the Geneva Convention!

By: Max

Max — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:31:11 +0000

jon livesey: you’re a moron who sees what you want to see. Within a few minutes of posting this error, a bunch of us were all over it, and Christian corrected it just as quickly. No government peddled this story; no one enforced its alleged truth. Yes, thousands of low-level “patriots” (and apparently one journalist) probably believed it without checking it. But you’re worse than them: that suspicious story erroneously confirms their patriotism, but you take readily available facts (widespread freedom of media and political/philosophical debate in the U.S.) and ignore them to cling to your dumb-ass conclusion that the U.S. is exactly like the U.S.S.R.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:49:29 +0000

Santa Clause?
When it pours it rains huh? AFAIK the movie still exists.

By: jon livesey

jon livesey — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:11:01 +0000

I honestly wonder what it says about a country when once a year it trots out these semi-fictional versions of a particular period of history.
These “factoids” aren’t just mistakes. They are a motivated and lovingly crafted misrepresentation of history. And Defense Tech is hardly the only place in the US where they get ceremoniously presented every Fourth.
The US used to mock the USSR for its politically correct versions of history. A mirror might be handy.

By: Wembley

Wembley — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:51:37 +0000

“dragged from his bed by night” by local Tories -
Well, that’s just the Tories all over, some things never change. Maybe Cameron will start suggesting that revolutionaries should be huhhed rather than hanged…

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:16:27 +0000

Yeah, the soldier-level tech stuff is still quite good (though I think I've heard enough Inside Baseball on Dragon Skin) but Christian has an unfortunate habit of picking up whatever the latest administration trial balloon is. Single-sourced, DoD-origin story on Iranian support for (insert enemy here)? Human-interest story slamming California liberals? DT is all over it. Latest missive from the Kagan clan on how great the surge is? It's here. I'm surprised Christian hasn't found a 'defense' angle on Gore's pothead son yet. I mean, yeah, bias is a fact of all media but this is DefenseTECH and a lot of the stuff that's come up since Noah left is definitely not tech... it's kind of getting like CQ or Michelle Malkin around here, but not funny. Axe's new blog is pretty lame, too. The guy manages to have all these excellent experiences, but seems to lack the insight to do anything except narrate them, and he's not a good enough writer to make the narrative interesting.

By: guywithpants

guywithpants — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:25:38 +0000

“Never shy of embracing information contrary to our posts”, but apparently shy of even so much as googling random unsubstantiated factoids forwarded around prior to posting them as truth.