Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Facebook Comment to Folks in the News

Like millions of other Americans I have been caught up in the Facebook/social networking craze. I believe that Facebook is like a near-death experience except your life passes before your eyes one friend request at a time. I have  been trying to “friend” a lot of people in the news, without much success. There’s been no acceptance of my friend requests from President Obama, Dede Scozzafava, Jeremiah Wright and a host of others. So in order to reach them with some timely advice I am posting some comments here. If you are on their Facebook friend list maybe you could pass them along. 

@ Dede Scozzafava – When you try to stand in the middle of the road you get run over. Thanks for showing where you stand when the heat was on. Go stand in the “has-been” line behind Arlen Specter.

@ Barack Obama - Mr. President, if the trip to Dover wasn’t a photo-op or political why take a photographer along? (more…)

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Tags: David Axelrod, Dede Scozzafava, facebook, Fred Thompson, Jeremiah Wright
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 6:05 pm in Celebrity News, Political Humor, Religion | 25766259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/04/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-facebook-comment-to-folks-in-the-news/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Facebook+Comment+to+Folks+in+the+News2009-11-05+02%3A05%3A08Jeffrey+Jena

‘Perfect Valor’ Debuts May 16th at the GI Film Festival

In 2004, coalition forces in Iraq launched Operation Phantom Fury, the battle for control of Fallujah. American troops battled through a city of enemy insurgents, fighting house to house and street to street to seize control of the most dangerous city in the world.

Narrated by Senator Fred D. Thompson, “Perfect Valor” is the story of the high price paid by US forces and the legacy of that campaign as seen through the eyes of the men and women who were there, risking their lives in service to their country.
 
We meet a Navy Cross recipient, recognized for extraordinary gallantry under fire during the assault on Fallujah. A true American hero still haunted by his experience in Iraq. We listen to the family of a fallen Marine as they tell the story of their sacrifice. We hear the harrowing tale of a battalion surgeon who risked his own life to move an aid station forward, into the middle of the fight – a decision that saved thirty lives. (more…)

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Tags: Fred Thompson, GI Film Festival, Navy Cross, Perfect Valor
Posted May 4th 2009 at 8:06 am in Entertainment, Military | 125266No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbossie/2009/05/04/perfect-valor/%27Perfect+Valor%27+Debuts+May+16th+at+the+GI+Film+Festival2009-05-04+15%3A06%3A22David+Bossie

‘Perfect Valor’ Premieres at the GI Film Festival

We’ve all noticed that coverage of the war in Iraq has dropped off over the last year or so.  Ever since it became an incontrovertible truth that the Bush Surge worked, The New York Times and MSNBC seem to have decided that there wasn’t much worth covering anymore.   Clearly, editors sitting in glass towers in New York City believe that “stories” like Korans being flushed down a toilet sell far more magazines than non-fiction accounts of hope and change in Iraq stemming from the hard work of our armed forces.  Now that things are going better in Iraq and controversies are more difficult to create, it doesn’t merit the “coverage” it once did. 

This phenomenon, while unfortunate, is not the most egregious failure of the mainstream media in covering the war in Iraq.  Focused as they were for the last five years on finding (or inventing from whole cloth) reasons to blast President Bush for anything that happened in Iraq, the reporters tasked with covering the conflict missed some of the most incredible acts of courage and sacrifice that have ever been performed.  Four soldiers, sailors, and marines have posthumously been awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of courage performed in Iraq, but few of us could name one of them.  (more…)

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Tags: Brothers At War, Citizens United, David Bossie, Fred Thompson, GI Film Festival
Posted Apr 20th 2009 at 6:13 pm in Entertainment, Military | 110758One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbossie/2009/04/20/perfect-valor-premieres-at-the-gi-film-festival/%27Perfect+Valor%27+Premieres+at+the+GI+Film+Festival2009-04-21+01%3A13%3A27David+Bossie

Festival launches “Brothers” and More

The buzz is getting out regarding Jake Rademacher’s “Brothers at War.”  It’s a great film with a good heart that shows the patriotic values of a true American family.  Brothers held it’s world premiere screening in May of last year at the 2008 GI Film Festival where it won Best Feature Documentary, and this month it hits theaters nationwide.  Brothers is one of many great pro-soldier, patriotic films that screen at the GI Film Festival — the first and only film festival in the nation which honors men and women in uniform.

The 2009 GI Film Festival, to held in Washington, DC 13-17 May 2009, has a fantastic line-up. (more…)

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Tags: Brothers At War, Fred Thompson, GI Film Festival, Jake Rademacher, Perfect Valor
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