[Lando Lincoln]

This speech by John Kerry before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 22, 1971 is nothing new to FReepers. It has been posted in its entirety numerous times and it has been quoted or excerpted frequently. But.....

This is posted on the PBS archive as one of only four of the greatest speeches of the 1970's. PBS, in turn, offers the postscript of My Lai and Lt William Calley.

Furthermore, among subsequent speeches, they do not list the 1987 Ronald Reagan, "Tear Down This Wall" speech.

Numbingly outrageous - even for PBS.

Lando

[Spok]

If leftist politicians want to have sex with interns, commit rape, murder and mayhem, it's okay with PBS. It's the movement that is supreme; everyone and everything else, especially principle, is subject to sacrifice. It's only slightly removed from the suicide bomber mentality.

[jcb8199]

Wow...good comment.....

[Fintan]

The lovely Ms. Totenberg. Ain't she sweet?

[Dolphy]

Where are they now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned? These are the commanders who have deserted their troops. And there is no more serious crime in the laws of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never even leave their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude.

And look how he turned out. John Kerry, yes on military action in Iraq, no on funding the mission.

[plain talk]

Nobody hardly ever heard of John Kerry until he decided to run for President. Very few people remembered him as a protester. History revision again.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Quix]

yup

But, the treasonously outrageous

is SOP for PBS.

[Stultis]

Now we are told that the men who fought there must watch quietly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of "Vietnamizing" the Vietnamese.

This makes me angry all over again (and a bit more enraged) each time I read it or hear it. Take the preceding quote. This piece of %&$#, John Forbes Kerry, is (was) actually calling it "arrogant" -- ARROGANT! -- to supply the South Vietnamese with the weapons, supplies and training necessary to defend themselves from an implacable, warmongering foe bent on enveloping them (and Laos and Cambodia and Thailand, and...) in murderous, totalitarian hegemony.

UN-%&*(ING-BELIEVABLE.

And he still insists that the stand he took then was right and honorable. He has recently "regretted" some of the more extreme language he used, but has pointedly refused to repudiate the substance of his views then.

And this man wants to be President?!?!

[mtntop3]

Numbingly outrageous indeed. A speech of lies and slander of U.S. soldiers is a "great speech"?? When was this odious "great speech" so judged and so listed by PBS, by whom, and on what basis? PBS should readily have this information available. This is significant.