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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:22
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Most of her recent column is on Rathergate, but she ends on this note, which identifies why CBS screwed up and why Cronkite was critical to America losing the Vietnam war.
"The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show the role of the individual in history. It wasn't Republican strategists who finished Kerry off two months before the election; it was the American people. The Swift Boat veterans came along and kicked Kerry in the shins and no matter how much heat they took, they were brave and wouldn't give up. The veterans who served with Kerry told the truth and the American people listened (as soon as they managed to locate a copy of "Unfit for Command" hidden on one of the back shelves at their local bookstores).
CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud – only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career.
It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people. Ironically, the leader of that effort was Rather's predecessor at CBS News, Walter Cronkite, president of the Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society.
It was Cronkite who went on air and lied about the Tet offensive, claiming it was a defeat for the Americans. He told the American people the war was over and we had lost. Ronald Reagan said CBS News officials should have been tried for treason for those broadcasts.
CBS has already lost one war for America. The Swift Boat Vets weren't going to let CBS lose another one."
http://www.anncoulter.org/
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Ned
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:22
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Yes, MikeH. And things like steep, progressive taxation, "emancipation" of women from marriage (i.e., traditional marriages are bad), the labor movement, state ownership of major business, control of the press, etc., etc., etc.
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:22
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I'm sure Malevolent Light and others will rejoice at finally seeing a piece of fair, unbiased reporting like this. Although it still has some unpleasant tinges of leftism because John Kerry isn't referred to as "the traitorous, rat-bastard, pile of sh*t Kerry". When oh when will we finally get the the full, objective truth from the media?
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MikeH
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Ming on rakastajani
May 1999
time: 05:22
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quote:
Originally posted by Ned
Yes, MikeH. And things like steep, progressive taxation, "emancipation" of women from marriage (i.e., traditional marriages are bad), the labor movement, state ownership of major business, control of the press, etc., etc., etc. |
OK... so I'm a communist!
Of that only two things I would think are really bad: state ownership of major business - only for things like water, power etc. and control of the press I disagree with, it should be regulated but not by government bodies.
Other than that all sensible policies. Emancipation of women just means giving them independence and allowing them to work, vote etc. It only means 'traditional marriages are bad' in the sense that traditional marriages where the woman is effectively the property of the husband is bad. Which I can't imagine anyone would disagree with in modern western democracy age.
Much of the Communist Manifesto was wrong, especially the way it would happen, but we have a lot of the reforms Marx thought we needed already, they just came about naturally as countries got richer and land/factory owners realised that fitter happier workers were more productive. You can't impose them but if people want them you can't stop them getting it at the end of the day.
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