WW I: "The Great War" OR America's Greatest Mistake? (HOUR 2)
The Michael Medved Show
The Michael Medved Show
4.4 • 516 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's no one like you, and there never will be. |
| 0:03.0 | From the producer of Bohemian Rhapsody. |
| 0:06.4 | There are many legends, but there is only one. |
| 0:12.0 | Michael, in IMAX and Cinema's Wednesday, April 22. |
| 0:17.2 | And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics. This is the Michael Medved Show. |
| 0:27.0 | And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth. Not only a great nation, but a greatly fortunate nation. And Americans have never felt so fortunate, so privileged, so protected by a benign and smiling providence |
| 0:40.2 | as we did at the end of 1914 and throughout most of 1915. Why? Because America was at peace. |
| 0:49.4 | We were safe from all the bloodshed and all the horror and all the destruction that was going on in Europe as part of World War I. |
| 0:56.5 | And the overwhelming majority of Americans, I mean, by very, very huge numbers, wanted to stay out of the war at all costs. |
| 1:05.2 | So what changed? |
| 1:06.5 | How did we go from that sentiment to a situation where two million American young men were sent across the Atlantic Ocean into the hellish fighting in Europe? |
| 1:16.6 | That's the subject of this very special broadcast of the Michael Medved show. |
| 1:22.5 | It's called World War I, the Great War or America's greatest mistake. |
| 1:31.5 | Music World War I, the Great War or America's Greatest Mistake? The strains of the patriotic rallying song over there by George M. Cohen saying that the |
| 1:38.3 | angs are coming, the angs are coming, the drums rum-tumming everywhere. That wasn't a song that Americans were singing until 1917 after Woodrow Wilson decided, |
| 1:50.9 | and yes, it was a personal decision ultimately, to take America to war. |
| 1:56.7 | Two years earlier, back in 1915, Americans were actually singing a very different tune. |
| 2:05.3 | I didn't raise my boy to be a golden. |
| 2:09.5 | I brought him up to be my pride and joy. |
| 2:12.4 | And joy. |
| 2:13.6 | Who did to play some musket on his daughter To shoot some of the mother's darling boy |
| 2:20.3 | Believe it or not |
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