One day, he walked into a Bureau Chief's Office in Siagon. The chief said, "Hi Jack! What's today's body count?" Dad told him he didn't know.
Then the chief asked, "Do you have any good stories about American commanders screwing up and getting their units blown away?" Dad said no, but he had some interesting articles about Guardsmen and Reservists spending thier time off helping the local villagers by building clinics and schools and digging wells.
The chief then asked, "How about some pictures of bodies hanging on barbed wire?" Dad told him no, but he had some great photos to go along with the stories he had.
The chief said, "Let me see them!" Dad handed them over and watched as the chief quickly looked through them. The chief then threw them back in my Dad's face and stated, "I'm not gonna use any of this shit! It gives the wrong impression of the war!"
Dad said, "You know, I think you are a Communist!" The chief responded, "You may be right, but as long as I am bureau chief, the American people are only going to see this war the way I want them to see it!"
With that, my Dad bent down, picked up the articles and photos, turned his back and without another word, WALKED OUT OF DAN RATHER'S OFFICE!
And that, Fellow Freepers, is why we have just got to win this war!
CBS has zero credibility.
I wish we had a list of all the lies they have told us. But by far the biggest lie is one that is so enormous that is can only be termed deliberate propoganda. And that is what they told us repeatedly about our Vietnam Veterans.
I wish some enterprising lawyer would step up and file a class action suit on behalf of all our Vietnam vets against CBS for that 1988 "documentary".
And, by the way, that 1988 "documentary" was, we now find out, just like Moore's F911.
Thanks for the repost.
I hadn't seen it on the original thread.
Wow, I am speechless.
Uh...hope this item doesn't move too far from here. Sounds somewhat too yummy to be true.
We allowed that dirty ba$tard on the air for decades too long.
May he rot in hell.
A guy called up Ingraham (iirc) a couple of months ago, saying he was a stringer (media industry contractor worker)
back in 1972.
He's on Dan's "Follow the Prsident" bus in some North central "democrat" state. They're passing through the only
"republican" county in the state, and all the Nixon supporters are out in force along the road.
He asks Dan if he should start filming the supporters. Dan responds something like "The American people are only
going to see this campaign the way I want them to see it!".
One would think Dan could expand his use of language.
Courage.
Wish Redleg Duke had some evidence to support his explosive story written in #106, rather than hearsay. Don't doubt that what he purported did happen, but with some backup I can only imagine the upheaval this will cause at CBS if the MSM got wind of this. BTW Liz Trotta was a superb guest.