I’ve written previously about Scott Horton’s fabulous new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. It’s truly a masterpiece. Everything you ever wanted to know about how that deplorable situation came to be.
AFAIK, the origin of the yellow ribbons was the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, inspired by the Tony Orlando song "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree," which I'm certain as a resident of LV you're quite familiar with.
The song has nothing to do with hostages, it's about a prisoner who's hoping his gal still loves him.
For whatever reason it became a thing. I remember because one of the hostages was from my hometown there were ribbons everywhere, even more ribbons than Terrible Towels, if you can imagine. He got a parade when he came home.
Somehow what started as a symbol of affection (women wearing ribbons in their hair, and tying them to trees), morphed into support for International meddling. Edward Bernays would be so proud of our state department marketing teams.
Oh wow. I didn't know the origin was tied specifically to that incident. I thought it was just a story in a song. I would imagine that Orlando isn't thrilled about the symbol's morphing.
AFAIK, the origin of the yellow ribbons was the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, inspired by the Tony Orlando song "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree," which I'm certain as a resident of LV you're quite familiar with.
The song has nothing to do with hostages, it's about a prisoner who's hoping his gal still loves him.
For whatever reason it became a thing. I remember because one of the hostages was from my hometown there were ribbons everywhere, even more ribbons than Terrible Towels, if you can imagine. He got a parade when he came home.
Somehow what started as a symbol of affection (women wearing ribbons in their hair, and tying them to trees), morphed into support for International meddling. Edward Bernays would be so proud of our state department marketing teams.
Oh wow. I didn't know the origin was tied specifically to that incident. I thought it was just a story in a song. I would imagine that Orlando isn't thrilled about the symbol's morphing.
Remember when abysmally low-IQ, low-ethics people attacked poutine because they thought it was spelled and pronounced too closely to Putin? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-08/poutine-restaurant-menu-vladimir-putin-ukraine-invasion/100891202
LOLOL. I'd forgotten that one.
People: tribal and dumb. I mean, I love 'em anyway, but jeez.