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Post by MrRepublican on Aug 5, 2004 10:34:58 GMT -7
Marine Corp's General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other day and you have to read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this!!!! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of National Public Radio (NPR)interview between a female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL REINWALD: Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?
The radio went silent and the interview ended. You've gotta love the Marines!!!
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Post by jim on Aug 5, 2004 11:06:48 GMT -7
Truth or fiction? This story has been posted here and there a number of times over the past several years. I have never been able to verify it. In any case, it is a good story ;D
Jim
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Post by downunder on Aug 5, 2004 19:47:31 GMT -7
This is old. You must have more material by now #1  |
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Post by ctdahle on Aug 6, 2004 11:20:42 GMT -7
Enough of you guys are vets, or in the military to know that if a real Lieutenant General made such sexist remarks on a public radio broadcast, he'd have been busted back to corporal before the next playing of Taps. www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.htm |
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Post by Galvin on Aug 7, 2004 18:51:39 GMT -7
This came out several years ago and seems to be resurfacing again under the "no sh!t, he really said this" label that the female troop who supposedly chewed out the French soldier was packaged under. I love a good story but this isn't one of them.
Suggestion: Try Snopes, Urban Legends, or one of the other well known debunking sites prior to publishing things like this as fact. But that isn't the point is it? Damn. Facts just get in the way of a good story.
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Post by MrRepublican on Aug 8, 2004 7:48:06 GMT -7
I have forwarded this thread (along with the detractors comments) to the soldier who forwarded it to me. Goodness knows we don't want to see any urban legends floating around the internet.  |
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Post by Galvin on Aug 8, 2004 10:16:30 GMT -7
It's "All the news that's fit to print, not "All the news that fits we print". The fact remains that this story has been around for quite a while but was first attributed to an Army general. Here's what Snopes says: www.snopes.com/military/reinwald.htmBut never let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story. |
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Post by Ricfly52 on Aug 8, 2004 12:27:12 GMT -7
To put this into perspective, I don't believe either side of this argument. No, not just because I am stupid. Lets say you read an article out of the daily newspaper. And you say, "geez I don't believe what I just read", so you go to the Druge report on the internet. After your inspection of that report, you think that this isn't right either. So you go to a site like Snopes, and then you believe it with out question. I have a hard time with that idea. Who is telling the truth? Sometimes it takes much more investigation to find the real answer. When I was about ninteen, Jean-Claude-Killy won three medals in alpine skiing. It seemed impossible to me since I was at a point that I was vieing for a berth on the US ski team. I knew how almost improbable it was that one man would win all three major alpine skiing events. Yet one year later he coached several of us on the US "B" alpine team. I saw first hand, his ability and became a believer. I never made it to the Us "A" team much less the olympic team. But I learned that seeing is believing. Does Bush tell the truth?,"hell no". Does Kerry tell the truth?, "Hell no". So with that.  I think we all are in one hell-of-a-fix!! |
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Post by Richard on Aug 8, 2004 18:16:31 GMT -7
Maybe the story should have been in the Humor Forum, but I liked it  |
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Post by Galvin on Aug 8, 2004 19:41:49 GMT -7
I have no trouble going to Snopes or any of the other myth debunking sites and reading what they have to say debunking a story, as in this case, or supporting it, as in many others. It is pretty obvious to anyone taking the time to determine the veracity of such apocrypha that this one is a rehash of the original "game warden/lady in the rowboat" joke that first appeared God knows how long ago.
And I agree that it should have appeared in the Humor forum, preferably in its original form.
My point in checking facts on these really juicy (to some people) stories is to see if they can be backed up with real facts rather than wishful thinking, especially if they are presented as truth. They usually aren't.
I'd like to think of this forum as one means at arriving at the truth, not a place to try to pass off stories that appeal to preconceptions, fears, or prejudices as truth.
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Post by Galvin on Aug 8, 2004 19:45:20 GMT -7
I have no trouble going to Snopes or any of the other myth debunking sites and reading what they have to say debunking a story, as in this case, or supporting it, as in many others. It is pretty obvious to anyone taking the time to determine the veracity of such apocrypha that this one is a rehash of the original "game warden/lady in the rowboat" joke that first appeared God knows how long ago.
And I agree that it should have appeared in the Humor forum, preferably in its original form.
My point in checking facts on these really juicy (to some people) stories is to see if they can be backed up with real facts rather than wishful thinking, especially if they are presented as truth. They usually aren't.
I'd like to think of this forum as one means of arriving at a reasonably accurate conclusion through judicious examination of real facts, not a place to try to pass off as truth apocryphal stories that appeal to the preconceptions, fears, or prejudices of a particular group.
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Post by MrRepublican on Aug 9, 2004 3:25:05 GMT -7
Veracity of the facts has never stood in the way of Michael Moore's misportral of this generation as nothing but a victim of the United States.
Nonetheless, I love the Marines.
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Post by Richard on Aug 9, 2004 4:17:22 GMT -7
Talking about the Marines, one morning in '65 the engineres had been pushing back the jungle at their base camp at Qui Nhon when the Marines stormed ashore from their LST's yelling kill kill right through the base camp and gardens of the engineres. The Marines had been told they would be taking the beach, a job the Army had done 90 days before. ;D Ya you have to love the Marines.
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I think we all are in one hell-of-a-fix!! 