A friend sent me a link which he prefaced by saying something like...
You have probably seen this before but it is worth another look.
My first thought was...
Why do people send links they know we have seen before? Don’t they know we are covered up with emails, tweets, facebookings and threatening letters from our federal government telling us we did something we should not have done or we should have done something we did not do?
The link he sent was the one all of us have probably seen before about Bob Hope’s many Christmas Shows entertaining our troops all over the world. (The link is at the end of this blog posting.)
Here Comes The Serious Part...
It’s about the difference between Now & Back Then. The clip says Bob Hope used to walk into hospital wards full of gravely wounded military personal from all branches of our military and announce, “Don't get up”.
It was funny. The wounded laughed. Everyone laughed.
Today anyone who did this would be crucified by our beloved politically correct news media. That night on the nightly news Ole Bob would have been First Up with a lead in like, Shocking News Alert! or This Just In! or Breaking News!
As for me, Seriousfella thinks that Congress should not have let Bob Hope die because he stood up for our troops for decades.
We used to know how to laugh.
Would I kid u?
Seriousfella
Lagniappe: I hope someone sends me the opportunity to look at this clip every Christmas from now on...
