Get it straight! MSNBC didn't claim anything. They were talking to a college professor who is also a Nam Vet.
"College professor" and "Vietnam Vet" just somehow don't seem to fit in the same sentence.
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.
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.
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.
Was he challenged? Did MSNBC present someone from the other side? Did anyone ask the guy making the claim how he definitively knew what actions 250 million people made 30 years ago?
Biased news rarely is clean cut as the lying that CBS and the NY Times have recently engaged in. But it also is not necessary when you present someone with credentials (whether relevant or not) and provide them with an uncritical platform. Thats biased reporting and the MSM regularly and skillfully engages in it.
One of ours or one of theirs?