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View Full Version : "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire," by Errol Morris,film maker

bob cole
07-18-2007, 08:23
fyi:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/pictures-are-supposed-to-be-worth-a-thousand-words/?8ty&emc=ty
Sparrow
07-18-2007, 08:41
Why was it going backwards? That’s what I want to know
40oz
07-20-2007, 08:36
Why was it going backwards? That’s what I want to know

I'm guessing the wind was merely blowing faster than the ship.
jan normandale
07-20-2007, 09:28
Morris wrote a very interesting piece but the comments on his discussion were even more interesting than what he wrote.
J J Kapsberger
07-20-2007, 09:28
For the dimmer folks, like me, what's the point of this thread? BTW, the US didn't enter the war because of the Lusitania; she entered the war because of the Zimmerman affiar--i.e., the proposed military alliance between Germany and Mexico should the US not remain neutral.
Steve Bellayr
07-20-2007, 10:24
"The loss of life provoked America out of a hereunto neutrality on the ongoing war in Europe. With cries of “Remember the Lusitania” the U.S. entered into WWI within two years. "

Two
Steve Bellayr
07-20-2007, 10:24
"The loss of life provoked America out of a hereunto neutrality on the ongoing war in Europe. With cries of “Remember the Lusitania” the U.S. entered into WWI within two years. "

Two years is a long time. It was the Zimmerman Telegram that actually
Steve Bellayr
07-20-2007, 10:26
Woodrow Wilson & Congress over the edge. I believe Barbara Tuchman wrote the book about the incident when the documents were declassified.

Sorry about hitting the wrong button.