The MousePod - MousePod #25 - Disney Goes To War

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Lunch.

BTW, I've listened to the first half hour...Jesse, I'm going to have to go with naive on this one. Hindsight is 20/20. While you'd be hard pressed to find more than a few people now who would argue that we should have stayed out of WWII, we spent 2 years sticking our fingers in our ears, closing our eyes, going "lalalala." Pearl Harbor may have forced our hand, but the country was hardly instantly gung-ho. So yes, propaganda was produced and used to turn the populace from begrudgingly accepting the inevitability of our participation into good old American hatred of the enemy. We have freedom fries, they had victory cabbage and Donald sieg heiling.

Good point, remember Lindbergh was also promoting isolationism at the time.

MP, great show. Sort of off topic, but do you think you will ever discuss the '41 strike? I'm amazed at all the things going on at the studio at that time, with Walt leaving the strike to head down to South America, and then Pearl Harbor totally changing the direction of the studio. That was sure alot of plates to keep spinning.