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Posted on 04/21/2005 8:49:58 AM PDT by minus_273
Right now on MSNBC they have an anti war activist and liberal prof claiming that no vets were spat on. In addition vets don't hate Fonda, they all love ler. Welcome to biased coverage.
Maybe it's a comedy?
it is so nice to know that there are more people who get upset about what is said on that network than actually watch it. It has a losing share for media and it does the heart good to keep that in mind whenever they come up with another of their inanities. And by the way, they put that man on there because he expresses their desire to rewrite history, but gives them the ability to have plausable deniability.
Nonetheless, this Alabama gal appreciates it!
RA,
I was less than 3 years old when that happened to you, but I can't even begin to tell you how badly I feel about what you and your brothers-in-arms went through back then. THANK YOU for your service!
The unrepentent hippie spitters, Jane Fonda, and MSNBC can rot in hell.
Would that, perchance, have been Jerry Lembcke?
Here's a bit of research I did last year for WinterSoldier.com:
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April 8, 2004 -- Several non-fans of WinterSoldier.com have written in to decry what they call the "myth" that returning Vietnam veterans were spat upon by leftist protestors. This claim appears to come from an article called The Spitting Image by a Holy Cross sociologist named Jerry Lembcke. The book version features a photo of the Dewey Canyon III medal toss on the cover -- Mr. Lembcke, it turns out, was a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He also seems to be a fan of the Communist Manifesto, and the co-author of a history of the Communist Party USA endorsed by that organization. Perhaps he wasn't really looking all that hard for spitting incidents.
Chicago Tribune writer Bob Greene documented several dozen such events in his 1990 book Homecoming, but Lembcke finds those accounts unpersuasive. His larger purpose, of course, is to obscure the fact that Vietnam veterans were treated with contempt largely because of the atrocity propaganda he himself helped create.
I wasn't offended by the report.
yes and the anchor was leading him on.. that and there was no one to refute his wild claims . like the one where there are absolutely no documented cases of vets getting spit on
Thank you. I saw this segment, too, and it was as you say.
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HA!!
They're beyond denial, far past neurosis too, and well into full-blown psychosis mode, now.
Book sales must be tanking.
"Welcome to biased coverage."
Bias hell, this gross distortion would make even George Orwell get a splitting headache.
I've something for the activist, professor *and* PMSNBC quislings.
A nice juicy wad of tobacco juice.
...right in their ugly kissers.
I have several military friends from the late Vietnam era and the Carter administration.
They all got that sort of thing, and usually more than once!
Heck, the ROTC boys at EMU used to have trouble!i witnessed some of thaat and those guyss hadn't even been in yet. This was 1980
(And THANK YOU, Retired Army, for your Service to our country!)
I came back through Seattle once and San Francisco once. After each trip back I served long tours stateside with other Nam Vets. Never knew one who said they had been spit on. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, I'm sure it did, but I doubt that it did as much as the myth that is being perpetuated. Many of those who make up stories about Nam and getting mistreated when they returned are right out of the characters documented in "Stolen Valor."
Taxman, you may have some memories on this subject.
Ronnie, thought that you might be interested also.
>>some idiot (Who would spend the next few days in a hospital)<<
God Bless you!!
and welcome home
Liars. I hope that MSNBC permanently goes out of business.
Liars. I hope that MSNBC permanently goes out of business.
OMG!!
i cannot put here as to what i'm thinking right now....
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I had battery acid thrown at my face. I can prove it, too: there are court records. The guy was convicted of assault.