Michelle Malkin, whom I normally like, is now blogging bullshit about Obama's supposed gaffe in a recent speech.
He said, which was wrong, that his uncle was in the unit that liberated Auschwitz.
He didn't, because Auschwitz was in Poland and was liberated by the Red Army.
Michelle jumped all over that.
There were plenty of camps in the West he could have liberated, but Rico isn't willing to struggle with her commenting software to point that out.
Just proves that the ability to type doesn't give you the ability to think, or even the ability to do decent research.
Rico says he expected better from her. (Of course, if Obama had better speechwriters, none of this would have been a problem.)
The campaign said the great-uncle he was referring to was his grandmother's brother, Charlie Payne, who served in the 89th Infantry Division that liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in April 1945.
(And thanks to the Peripatetic Engineer for correcting Rico's bad assumptions about Obama's uncle. Blogging didn't make Rico smart, either...)
What unit was he in?
ReplyDeleteHere's what Wikipedia says.
ReplyDeleteA detachment of troops belonging to the US 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, US 6th Armored Division, US Third Army arrived at Buchenwald on 13 April 1945 under the leadership of Captain Frederic Keffer. The squad entered the outer perimeter of the camp and reported its location to its higher ups, but did not investigate in great detail, moving on to complete other missions