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The Amateur
New York Sun ^ | October 27, 2004 | NY Sun Editorial Staff

Posted on 10/27/2004 11:54:31 AM PDT by Interesting Times

One of our favorite movies is the film Alfred Hitchcock made in 1940 called "Foreign Correspondent." It's about how civilization's enemy in what became World War II sought to manipulate a peace movement dubbed "well-meaning amateurs" and through them, the press. We wouldn't want to draw exact parallels to the Vietnam era - or our own wartime drama today - but we couldn't help think of it as we read Thos. Lipscomb's dispatch, issued on our Page 1 yesterday, on how the communists in Hanoi were viewing the activities of John Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Mr. Lipscomb, a seasoned freelance journalist, managed to uncover two documents of the Viet Cong that are now in the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University. They are from the spring and early summer of 1971, shortly after Mr. Kerry gave his infamous testimony to the Senate, calling his fellow GIs war criminals and belittling the idea of a communist threat.

One of the documents, which were captured from the enemy in Vietnam, shows a detailed knowledge of such Vietnam Veterans Against the War activities as the Dewey Canyon demonstration on the Mall in Washington in April 1971. It even mentions the ex-GIs returning their medals. Another communist document, called a circular, says that the "spontaneous antiwar movements in the US have received assistance and guidance from the friendly (VC/NVN) delegations at the Paris Peace Talks."

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hanoijohn; madamebinhsboytoy; powextortion; selloutinparis; usefulidiots; vcdocuments; vvaw
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See earlier threads, including Hanoi Approved of Role Played By Anti-War Vets and John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?.
1 posted on 10/27/2004 11:54:36 AM PDT by Interesting Times
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To: Howlin; eddie willers; cajungirl; wirestripper; Southflanknorthpawsis; Peach; prairiebreeze; ...

More on Monsieur J. F. Kerry, a favorite French-American poodle of the North Vietnamese...


2 posted on 10/27/2004 11:58:07 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times
One of our favorite movies is the film Alfred Hitchcock made in 1940 called "Foreign Correspondent."

...which starred noted Republican Joel McCrea.
3 posted on 10/27/2004 12:00:31 PM PDT by Freepdonia (Victory is Ours!)
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks for the ping!


4 posted on 10/27/2004 12:00:54 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Interesting Times
More on Monsieur J. F. Kerry, a favorite French-American poodle of the North Vietnamese...

This idiot makes me want to throw up. And do you think for one minute this is getting out to the general public? HELL NO! And here we sit..........preaching to the choir.

I can not STAND that FnKerry!

5 posted on 10/27/2004 12:01:15 PM PDT by SheLion (PLEASE vote! We can't afford to be silent!!!! Do we really want FnKerry to run our Country?!)
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To: Interesting Times

BTTT!!!!!!


6 posted on 10/27/2004 12:01:20 PM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks!

Isn't just amazing how the MSM ignores this reality and is still trying to run with the latest lie from the NY Slimes?


7 posted on 10/27/2004 12:03:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Interesting Times
SELF-PROFESSED WAR CRIMINAL,
KERRY WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-WAR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF OUR ARMED FORCES.


8 posted on 10/27/2004 12:05:31 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Used to be sciencediet but found the solution)
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To: Interesting Times

bump


9 posted on 10/27/2004 12:12:49 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: SheLion
This idiot makes me want to throw up. And do you think for one minute this is getting out to the general public? HELL NO! And here we sit..........preaching to the choir.

Frequently it takes a little time. The Kerry-photo-in-the-Hanoi-museum story we did earlier in the year at WinterSoldier.com also took a while to get going, but it has now been mentioned in hundreds of columns, and the two initial articles have more than 375,000 combined views.

Just keep passing the word. It'll get out there...

10 posted on 10/27/2004 12:13:29 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times
Frequently it takes a little time. The Kerry-photo-in-the-Hanoi-museum story we did earlier in the year at WinterSoldier.com also took a while to get going, but it has now been mentioned in hundreds of columns, and the two initial articles have more than 375,000 combined views.

Just keep passing the word. It'll get out there...

That's wonderful news.  All I read is Yahoo News, Free Republic with Fox News on TV.  I'm happy you and the rest read more then I do.  This is great news indeed. 

11 posted on 10/27/2004 12:21:05 PM PDT by SheLion (PLEASE vote! We can't afford to be silent!!!! Do we really want FnKerry to run our Country?!)
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To: Interesting Times

Bttt


12 posted on 10/27/2004 12:23:30 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Interesting Times

Thanks for the ping...
My blood is boiling right now...LINK tv is showing a Kerry propaganda film, depicting him as a noble warrior who went into the antiwar movement because of his conscience...oh...
The movie, "Going up the river--the long war of John Kerry" shows the "winter soldier" investigation as a noble, true, honorable life changing experience for an "idealistic" John Kerry!

The host explains that the movie "stolen honor" was not based in "historical fact" ...but this Kerry propaganda is! He said that!

Would you please get ahold of LINK tv and explain the truth to them. Demand equal time. Demand a reubuttle...they kept showing clips of Steve Pitkin....can he demand to get on LINK and rebut his appearance in this movie?

http://www.markhertsgaard.com/


13 posted on 10/27/2004 12:29:29 PM PDT by tuckrdout
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To: Interesting Times

My thanks to BulletBobCo for the concept of this
pic and to Conspiracy Guy for the captions!


14 posted on 10/27/2004 12:32:14 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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Bttt....


15 posted on 10/27/2004 12:37:50 PM PDT by Seeking the truth ( www.0cents.com - See Vietcong Vets for Kerry stuff here!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Isn't just amazing how the MSM ignores this reality and is still trying to run with the latest lie from the NY Slimes?

They are just running in the footsteps of their Great Icon, the primary spokesman for the North Vietnamese Government, Walter Cronkite.

16 posted on 10/27/2004 12:43:45 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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"They are just running in the footsteps of their Great Icon, the primary spokesman for the North Vietnamese Government, Walter Cronkite."

Walter the liar Cronkite as poster boy model for the MSM.


17 posted on 10/27/2004 12:45:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps stop Rathering to America? Answer: NEVER!)
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To: Interesting Times

BTTT


18 posted on 10/27/2004 12:46:35 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Interesting Times

This is a Letter to the Editor written by the President of Solano County, California Republican Women, Judy Ewing.
She has a great way with words. Since most of you are not in this area to get a local paper, wanted to pass it on to you. It is a "Must Read!"

Subject: Letter to the editor...

"I feel a temper tantrum coming on! You know - one of those old fashioned "throw yourself on the ground, kicking and screaming until your grandmother throws cold water on you" fits. Those days when you didn't care about "going along to get along". Well, after 60 years, I've come full circle!

What in the world is going on in this country? Has the old American frontier spirit been bred out of us? What happened to our ebullient, can do, give 'em hell attitude? Has our becoming cleaned up, civilized and increasingly sissified in order to grace the global drawing rooms and salons of Europe sapped our strength as well as our senses?

If I wanted a French looking, French speaking Francophile for a president, I would have moved to France a long time ago! And I don't want a wealthy heiress from Mozambique with a penchant for gin soaked raisins for a first lady either. I am also not interested in having my grandsons donning a beret and saying" Hi, I'm from the United Nations and I'm here to help you." And while on that subject, I'm equally sure that I don't want a Commander in Chief that only 18% of the military is planning to vote for. No wonder Kerry is talking about a draft.

Another thing - I don't want a vice president that is prettier than I am and who spends an inordinate amount of time fingercombing his hair in front of a woman's compact mirror. What's next - Barbies? Nor do I want an effete, Botoxed, orange-tanned 1200 dollar haircut in the West Wing. I do not under any circumstances want "girlie men" in the White House - I want gunslingers! I don't want anyone whose ideal weapon is a fencing sword - I want someone who can operate a chainsaw!

And I sure don't want someone who can't even carry his own dead goose out of the woods, like some kind of lord of the manor, or country squire. Noblesse oblige...

Waaaaa! I want an old time cowboy. Someone who rides the perimeter, mends fences when he can, and clears out the dead brush and the varmints. Someone strong, resourceful, straight talking and resolute. I want cowboy boots echoing down the halls of American history, not tasseled loafers. I want a president reflective of the majority of Americans, those in "flyover country", in Middle America - somewhere in between Michael Moore and the Hollywood lefties, and the liberal North East elitists that know it all.

I want...oops, here comes my husband with the hose - just like old times! I'm feeling better all ready! Hmm, maybe I ought to lock myself in the bathroom for a while...See you at the polls!"


19 posted on 10/27/2004 12:53:47 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Interesting Times

Thank you. I'm glad this is coming out, finally.


20 posted on 10/27/2004 12:59:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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