This morning my brother forwarded me a piece of shameless propaganda, purportedly created by a fifteen-year-old girl. Here is the message being disseminated:

"Lizzie Palmer who put this YouTube program together is only 15 years old."
"There have been over 3,000,000 hits as of this morning."
"In case you missed it, here it is."
"The link below is the hottest thing on the internet and on Fox News today ."
http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1

Quite a "Foxy" fifteen-year-old, no doubt. Damn that Faux News!

Above is my heartfelt reply to my brother and to all the other people to whom he had forwarded the video when he sent it to me--and to you.

This is simply an amazing video, a painful yet patriotic tug at one's deepest emotional wellsprings. Leni Reifenstahl could not have done better.