Bill O'Reilly makes a total ass of himself once again...

[Archae]

I searched around trying to find where this "Stalin had Patton killed" crapola came from, everything pointed back to O'Reilly and his book.

So it's painfully obvious that O'Reilly threw the history book in the trash and pulled this conspiracy theory out of his ass.

Historians Rip O'Reilly's New Patton Book

Historians and biographers of General George S. Patton are panning Bill O'Reilly's theory that the World War II commander was assassinated by the Soviet Union, calling the tale implausible and lacking evidence.

Most historians stick to the long-held evidence that Patton died from complications after a December 1945 car accident that left him paralyzed.

But O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard contend in the newly-released Killing Patton that the general's death was the result of a conspiracy by former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. O'Reilly repeated the theory during an appearance to promote his book on ABC News' This Week:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/02/historians-rip-oreillys-new-patton-book/200986

[adirondacker]

1. The old McCarthy era is burned deep into that noodle of his. Overcooked pasta can not be saved. nt

[YarnAddict]

2. A friend loaned me book,

probably a year ago, so I don't think it could have been O'Lielly's. It theorized that the "accident" was actually an assassination, although I think the conspirators were American military. I don't remember much about the book, (I don't think I even finished it,) but it is an interesting theory.

[Archae]

4. Probably wasn't O'Reilly's book.

I had a relative who was convinced that Patton didn't have that car accident, he was shot by his own men.

You see, Patton wanted us to go straight to war with Russia.

I pointed out that so did Churchill.
The relative brushed me off as a "smart mouth."

[shenmue]

3. Oh Lord

[CBGLuthier]

5. I found the 70s movie Brass Target more believable than that.

and it was crap too that claimed a bunch of US soldiers killed Patton to cover up stealing gold.

[YarnAddict]

6. So--

just an accident?

Patton was an interesting guy. To my dad, who was a WWII vet, he was a hero. To many, he was a villian. When word got out back home that he had slapped an injured soldier, the homefront turned against him.

[CBGLuthier]

9. Yes, just an accident. People die in car crashes every day and being a soldier does not prevent that

I think the real Patton has been lost in the myth created by the film Patton.

[YarnAddict]

10. I think this is the book I got from my friend

http://www.amazon.com/Target-Patton-Assassinate-General-George-ebook/dp/B004773Z2W/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1412272024&sr=8-9&keywords=patton

It was interesting, and I think I may purchase it, just to finish it. Even if you don't buy the assassination CT, it was intriguing, and it has some interesting (and almost unbelievable) characters!

[Archae]

7. Found that movie on Wikipedia.

Does sound like a crap movie.

[yellowcanine]

8. Billo also failed to talk about Patton's anti-semitism

Richard Cohen's very revealing column on this:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2014/10/01/patton-book-ignores-generals-virulent-anti-semitism.html