Minister Mistakes 'Hogans Heroes' for Reality...
I sometimes don't understand what posseses people to say certain things at certain times. But the gaffe of the week has to go to Australian Federal Veterans Affairs Minister Bruce Billson (BB).Whilst launching this year's Weary Dunlop Medical Research appeal yesterday BB claimed that he used to watch reruns of Hogans Heroes as a child. That's all good, I still watch reruns of Hogans Heroes, it was a great "Television show", quite comical to, I didn't think it was historically accurate though. The minister doesn't either... anymore 'men in German and Italian prison camps in World War II were wrongly perceived by many people as having had a fairly easy time, thanks to Hollywood.'
It gets better...
"I think it's likely Hogans Heroes have done a bit of a disservice, Colonel Klink and Sgt Schultz haven't done much good, really," BB proudly proclaimed.
No wonder the Howard regime is under the pressure for its standards of education around Australia. If a federal minister actually thought that a comedy series was an acurate depiction of the suffering of PoW's at the hands of the Nazi's.
Has this man ever read a text book?
Who voted for him?
source: here
posted by Mark @ 2:23 AM
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