Just a hunch, but when the appalling waxworks Pelosi is finely dead or toppled, Gabbard is due for a top position in the Democrat Party
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If this is D. Gareth Porter, why the hell is the American Conservative printing anything he reads?
If this is the far-left Hanoi propagandist and anti-American, pro-Iranian huckster, then AC has been conned by a “commie/symph”.
The Porter I knew and debated on TV was the leader of the pro-Hanoi tax-exempt propaganda operation known as the Indochina Resource Center which was allied with another pro-Hanoi “research” group known as the Center for International Policy (CIP) - Guy Gran and George Hildebrand, among others.
These were the “genocide” and “Holocaust” denies of what the communists did in North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Cambodia.
Just read his testimony and that of Gran and Hildebrand before at least one House of Representatives committee (probably the House International Relations Committee in 1975 and around 1977, before Rep. Stephen Solarz (D-NY). In the midst of the great genocide in Cambodia, these red clowns were telling Congress that it wasn’t happening.
There is a list of congressional hearings that the Hanoi Lobby people gave from about 1969 - 1977 at the database site www.keywiki.org. It might be under the title “Hanoi Lobby” or you can search by name such as D. Gareth Porter, etc).
Porter, a product of the Hanoi Love Fest at Cornell’s SE Asian Studies Program run by Marxist prof. George McT. Kahin, also wrote a “denier” study entitled “The Myth of the Bloodbath in Vietnam” in 1972. It was unintentionally a rebuttal to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s compendium study “The Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam”, also 1972. Porter than gave his own testimony in what would be Part 2 of a 3 part series in the Human Cost of Communism in Vietnam dialogue by SISS.
He was decidedly trounced in THCCinVN, Part 3, by foreign affairs scholar and many times Vietnam/Cambodia visitor Dan Teodoru.
According to Porter, there was no deliberate massacre of up to 8,000 So. Vietnamese military, govt, and civilians/persons in the Hanoi-occupied city of Hue during the “Tet Offensive” of Jan/Feb/March 1968.
He said there were no “death lists”, no “death squads”, no mass graves along the Hue/Perfume River (over 5,000 bodies were found in its vicinity and several thousand more further in from its banks.
A friend of mind, Gary Jarmin, actually found a wire-bound body of one of these victims of the communists in the sand dunes in Hue.
After the fall of SE Asia to the communists, Porter later turned his attention to anti-Israel reporting on the Middle East, showing up in the Arab Lobby magazine “Washington Report on the Near East” by the old Aramco/anti-Israel groups of Curtis, Dall and Kilgore.
Porter and his gang of pro-communist propagandists were the equivalent of Lord Haw Haw, Tokyo Rose, Goebbels, Julius Streicher and Dur Sturmer all rolled up into one cesspool of lies whose goal was to ensure a communist victory in S.E. Asia.
Somebody should have checked Porter’s bio and what is at www.keywiki.org, www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and on the internet.
If there ever was a face of treason during the Vietnam/Indochina conflict, besides Tom Hayden, Dave Dellinger, Cora Weiss, Don Luce, Fred Branfman, and Jane Fonda, it was D. Gareth Porter and friends. However, it was Porter and company who used their “academic” studies status to cover their Hanoi disinformation propaganda and operations, some of which were challenged by Congressmen as being illegal abuses of tax-exempt money.
Even conservatives can be “conned” if they don’t do their vetting properly. Forewarned is forearmed.
Socialist surrogate, nuanced nutcase. Eye candy to a blindman, brain poison to those who can see.
I hope the Democrats never figure out what a star they could have in Gabbard. She would be a formidable candidate for higher national office.