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Adrian Cronauer, the real live DJ portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" just passed, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44897634 (many other obits also available).
Keen to travel, Cronauer says he actually volunteered for a transfer to Vietnam, where he was hired initially as a news director for Armed Forces Radio there.
After his morning presenter left, he took up the 06:00 Dawn Buster show mantle, greeting troops with an enthusiastic yell of: "GOOOOOOOOD morning, Vietnam!"
Cronauer soon found out while interviewing troops that his ironic salute was often met with "the GI equivalent of: Get stuffed Cronauer" on bad days, he recounted at a veterans event in 2008.
"On one occasion, a guy picked up his M16 and blew away his radio," he told the Americans Veterans Centre conference.
Did any Soylentils hear him — live — in Vietnam?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @09:04PM (2 children)
It's like so:
1. Trump, obviously, though he still has 6 years in which he could screw up. The biggest failure is not prosecuting Hillary and Obama, though I can imagine that DC-area juries make that awkward.
2/3. Tie: Ford and Reagan. Ford was kind of boring. The worst was when he abandoned South Vietnam. The worst of Reagan was amnesty and the 1986 machine gun law.
4. Nixon. Hey, at least he wasn't a crook. (and Obama makes Nixon look saintly) His worst mistake involved China.
5/6. Tie: Carter and Bush Jr. Carter was a failed joke, but mostly harmless. Bush Jr. was pretty boring, but did the PATRIOT act. Carter fucked up the economy, and Bush Jr. was unable to get congress to undo the Clinton-era stuff that led to the housing crash.
7. Bush Sr. signed laws to tax us and ban various guns, and he was planning NAFTA.
8. Clinton actually signed NAFTA. He also sold military tech to the Chinese, making him clearly a traitor. Our constitution specifies execution for traitors.
9. Obama was shockingly corrupt, weaponizing multiple government agencies for political advantage. (IRS against tea party stuff, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fines as a slush fund, EPA fines as a slush fund, EPA settlements to bypass normal rulemaking, FBI/NSA/CIA targeting Trump, authorizing uranium transfers to our enemies...) He also colluded with the Russian president, caught on a hot mic. Clearly he too is a traitor, and again our constitution specifies execution for traitors.
I'm sort of guessing you think LBJ was OK. He was roughly as awful as Obama. At least he was better than FDR, who seems to be the worst in the history of the USA.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday July 23 2018, @07:07PM (1 child)
What color is the sky on your planet?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 24 2018, @03:50AM
Shit-brown, on account of he's got his head so far up his ass he can see the last thing his paternal grandfather ate before death.
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