Today’s Fox column (which actually went up last evening), was a reprise of my latest spoof of WW II reporting.
Response to it (via email–I have no comments section at the Fox site) has been mostly positive, like this one from Chris Cole:
What an outstanding “report” of the “failed and unjust, unilateral, yankee cowboy invasion” we perpetrated upon this peace-and-fun-loving people who desparately wanted no more in life than to be left alone to enjoy the simple pleasures of their bratwurst and Octoberfests.
How would we have ever been so heartlessly cruel?
Besides, what ever happened to all those Warriors of Mass Dysfunction (the Nazis) that we kept hearing about — the ones that supposedly were menacing the entire free world? Like a popular song of the time (“I Was Not a Nazi Polka”) wryly noted, they seem not to have ever really existed at all. Apparently they were simply phantoms of presidential persuasion perpetrated upon a Pied-Piper-led populace. Pity!
How could we have been so na