REAL REASON HILLARY MADE UP STORY ABOUT BOSNIA!

[Dems Will Win]

Hillary is obviously suffering from Munchausen Syndrome:

Remembering Baron Munchausen, Asher named this condition Munchausen's Syndrome and explained it in one of his many notable articles, saying:

"Here is described a common syndrome which most doctors have seen, but about which little has been written. Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful. Accordingly the syndrome is respectfully dedicated to the Baron, and named after him."

Insisting that he alone can save the city, the Baron escapes the city's walls in a hot air balloon constructed of women's underwear, accompanied by Sally as a stowaway. The balloon expedition proceeds to the Moon, where the Baron, rejuvenated to the appearance of a younger man by the preceding adventure, finds his old associate Berthold, but angers the King of the Moon (Robin Williams in an uncredited cameo), who resents the Baron for his romantic past with his Queen (Valentina Cortese). A bungled escape from the Moon leads the trio back to (and beneath) the Earth, where the Roman God Vulcan (Oliver Reed) hosts his guests with courtesy and Albrecht is found. An unwelcome romantic incident between the Baron and Vulcan's wife, the Goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), ends the hospitality and the now-foursome are expelled from Vulcan's kingdom into the South Seas.

Swallowed by an enormous sea creature, the travelers locate Gustavus, Adolphus, and the Baron's trusty horse Bucephalus. The Baron (who again appears elderly after being "expelled from a state of bliss," in his words) struggles with the conflicting goals of heroism and a peaceful death, before deciding to escape with "a modicum of snuff," which causes the sea creature to "sneeze" the heroes out through its whale-like blowhole.

Back ashore, the Turkish army is located but the Baron's associates are now too elderly and tired to fight the Turk as in the old days. After a stern lecture from the Baron, who storms off intending to surrender, his cohorts rally to save both the Baron and the city in a fantastic extended battle scene.

During the city's celebratory parade, the Baron is shot dead by Jackson. An emotional public funeral takes place, but then is revealed to be only the final scene of yet another story the Baron is telling to the same theater-goers from early in the film. The Baron calls the foregoing "only one of the many occasions on which I met my death" and closes his tale by saying "everyone who had a talent for it lived happily ever after."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Baron_Munchausen

Remember this:

And he may not have even recalled which myth was actual and which myth wasn't.

Reagan regaled audiences about a B-17 pilot who would not bail out of his crippled plane on his way back from a European mission because his wounded gunner couldn't make the jump. The pilot comforted the lad: "Never mind, son. We'll ride it down together." Reagan asserted that the pilot was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously.

However, military author-historian Lawrence H. Suid relates in his book "Guts & Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film," that he couldn't verify such a story, either through the White House or the Air Force History Office.

Suid eventually located the source. A World War II veteran recognized that the story was too perfectly similar to a scene in a popular 1944 air drama about the Battle of Midway, "A Wing and a Prayer," starring Don Ameche and Dana Andrews. In a climactic scene, the radio operator tells his pilot that the plane is afire but he can't move. The pilot returns, "I haven't got the altitude, Mike. We'll take this ride together."

[Dems Will Win]

1. Did anyone ever see that movie?

[shadowknows69]

2. Oh yeah, anything with Terry Gilliam's name on it.

[NC_Nurse]

4. Me. It's a cool movie.

[Dems Will Win]

7. I loved it!

[juno jones]

9. It is one of my favorites

My then 3-year old son discovered it. I fell asleep in front of it the first time (pregnant with twins, it happens) but E. watched it all the way thru and asked for it again the next day and the next. he watched that movie the way some kids watch 'Little Mermaid'. Somewhere in the 600 or so viewings I had of it, I discovered it was a beautiful movie on a cinematic, symbolic and mythical level. It repays repeated viewings with new details and symbols.

The Baron's command at the end of the movie to 'Open the gates!' brings tears to my eyes. If only we could open our own minds to reach past the fear and paranoia of the walls we have built. I see the Baron as the trickster, the illogical antidote to those who would have others perish in their "logical little wars".

To compare the Baron and Reagan or Hillary is a little misleading. The Baron of the movie always tells the truth and the truth is that he he travels in the subconscious and stands in opposition to uncritical 'logical' thought- the kind that got us into this mess in the first place.

[crankychatter]

3. "best of..."

k n r

[rurallib]

5. My first thought was of Reagan and John Wayne

both of whom in later life thought they had fought in WWII when in actuality neither ever left Hollywood.

[Dems Will Win]

6. I posted A Reagan Fable above!

[Dems Will Win]

8. kick

[marshall]

10. What is the disease where people insert themselves in situations they were not involved in

I've heard of it, but can't think of the name. Hillary's staff seems to be excusing her whopper by saying she read accounts of other people being under gunfire and somehow got confused and thought it had happened to her.

[meow mix]

11. lol, K&R

:rofl:

[Dems Will Win]

12. Buh-bye Hillary!