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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 05:49 AM
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Just spent the last 40 minutes replying to right wing emails from my uncle
Gawd these people are so clueless!
check out some of this fluff b.s.
"
While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave

him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how

much one of them would cost to build. He took out his check

book and wrote a check for the full amount right there

on the spot.The question I have is why does someone as insignificant as :

Alec Baldwin,

Madonna,

Sean Penn and

other Hollywood types

make front page news with their anti-everything

America trash yet Denzel Washington's Patriotism

doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of

any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San Antonio."

Of course it mentions nothing about big business repukes and the administration with the purse strings or the fact they wouldn't need another fisher house to fill with wounded soldiers if Asshole didnt send them there!
I lit into his ass!!

Then i got one from him showing american troops sleeping in mud holes and such one picture had them in the formation spelling out
"9-11 we remember"
as if Iraq had anything to do with 9-11
damn I am just riled up now!!
That should teach me to check old email accounts i guess!
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 06:00 AM
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1. You might add this to your response:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/denzel.asp

"...he did not, as described above, "get out his checkbook" on the spot and write a check for the full amount needed to construct a new building:
The problem, according to Fisher House President David Coker, is that while Washington did make a 'sizeable' donation to the program, the e-mail claim is almost entirely bogus.

"Denzel came to visit with the soldiers and Marines being cared for at Brooke Army Medical Center last December 17th," Coker said. "He visited with them and told them how much he respects their service. He also toured one of the two Fisher Houses at Brooke Army Medical Center."

Washington told Coker at the time he would like to make a commitment to support the work of Fisher House.

"Denzel did not take out a checkbook and write a check on the spot," Coker says. "He seldom carries a check book with him."

Coker said Washington did in fact make a sizeable donation to Fisher House several months after his visit to BAMC. He declined to comment on the size of the donation, but it was not enough to build a new Fisher House. "

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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 06:05 AM
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2. Thank you for that!
I did a reply all to the letter.
I always forget about checking snopes
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-26-06 08:11 AM
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3. ask him to define "anti-American trash"
then ask him why he defines freedom of speech as anti-American
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