The whole O'Reilly-Malmedy thing just pisses me off to no end. There sits Supreme Windbag Bill O'Reilly lying outright about the Malmedy Massacre and the sound of pins dropping in Right Blogistan is pretty amazing.

Keith Olbermann has been all over our old buddy, Falafel O'Loofah like a polyester shirt on a humid day. Not a moment of time goes by without Keith getting in O'Reilly's face about this, and rightly so. So I sent Olbermann a letter. Apparently the Actor, Charles Durning, is not only a survivor or the Normandy Landings as an infantryman, but a survivor of Malmedy. How fitting that someone like Durning should call O'Reilly out on June 6th about the lies that O'Reilly is spreading.

Anyone who can pass this on to Countdown gets my eternal gratitude, since I'm sure they get 12 million emails an hour.

Here it is:

Keith,

I have been watching Countdown and getting ever more annoyed over the O'Reilly lies about Malmedy and his casual slander of veterans. Today it's Malmedy, tomorrow it'll be the heroic Lt William Calley who escaped with his life after being pinned down in a savage firefight with the villagers of My Lai....doncha know?

It might be interesting to know, that doing some checking around the internets using Google (something that O'Loofah has never heard of, obviously) that the actor Charles Durning was not only one of the first Americans to land on the beaches at Normandy, but also a survivor of the Malmedy Massacre. I wonder if he'd be willing to speak to O'Reilly and try to shut him up (not that O'Loofah will ever actually shut up).

Here's what I found from this web site

Durning was wounded by an "S" Mine on June 15, 1944, at Les Mare des Mares. He was transported by the 499th Medical Collection Company to the 24th Evacuation Hospital. By June 17, he was back in England at the 217th General Hospital. Although severely wounded by shrapnel in the left and right thigh, right hand, the frontal region of the head and the interior left chest wall, Durning recovered quickly and was determined to be “fit for duty” on Dec. 6, 1944. Durning was present for the Battle of the Bulge, the German counter-offensive in December 1944. Taken prisoner, he was among the very few troops who escaped being massacred by Gen. Pieper's 1st Liebstandart Adolph Hitler, an elite SS Panzer unit at Malmedy. He escaped with two others, and returned to find the remainder murdered.

Is it worth your time (I hope you read this) to have someone try and speak to Mr. Durning (who is very reluctant to speak of his wartime experiences)?

I hope this might be useful in the continuing battle to bring a small dose of reality to the delusional world of Falafel O'Loofah.

Sincerely,

Jo Fish
usndemvet.com/blog