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A New Yorker Kind of Guy
The American Spectator ^ | 6/9/2005 | Ben Stein

Posted on 06/09/2005 11:05:29 AM PDT by stan_25

If you wanted to see the perfect example of the ethical and moral collapse of the Mainstream Media, you could not do better than a long article in the New Yorker of May 23, 2005. The article is entitled, "The Spy Who Loved Us." Written by a teacher at the University of Albany, named Thomas Bass, it's about a man named Pham Xuan An. Now very old, An was -- among many other things -- a correspondent in Saigon during the Vietnam War for Time magazine. He was apparently considered a particularly brilliant and well-informed correspondent and very well liked by his colleagues in the Western press corps during the war.

He was also a Communist spy, working for the North Vietnamese, informing them of what he knew about American military plans, troop movements, political agendas.

He even helped the Communists win large battles by directing Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops against American and South Vietnamese forces. He helped plan the Tet Offensive of 1968, including helping the man who planned the attack on the U.S. Embassy. This was the offensive where thousands of innocent civilians were massacred by the Communists.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benstein; communists; espionage; phamxuanan; spy; timemag; vietnamwar

1 posted on 06/09/2005 11:05:30 AM PDT by stan_25
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To: stan_25
Thank you for posting this, and thanks especially to Ben Stein, else I never would have heard of this article or the low-life professor who wrote it.

Stein has had a couple of eloquent articles this week...the other being his column on Mark Felt and Nixon.

2 posted on 06/09/2005 11:10:59 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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What war is the professor refering to? I can't recall any large battles (between U.S. forces and either NVN or VC) that the U.S. forces lost. U.S. forces wiped out the VC in the Tet offensive.


3 posted on 06/09/2005 11:22:22 AM PDT by kruss3 (Kruss3@yahoo.com)
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To: stan_25
Bass even explains that almost all of An's former colleagues in the Western press still love the guy after learning he was a spy for America's enemy in the Vietnam War.

Is anyone shcked by this? I don't think so. These folks are completely detached from the America.

In this article, which I would guess to be about 8,000 words or more

I guess I'm not cultured enough to appreciate the New Yorker. But they publlish the longest, most banal and navel-gazing screeds imaginable. My last attempt to get through one I was in the hospital awaiting surgery. It was about elderly Armenians or Georgians that that had been left up in the Caucasus mountains to starve and freeze to death by the Turks or Stalin. I forget. It just went on and on.

4 posted on 06/09/2005 11:23:31 AM PDT by Calusa (Hey Nick, was you ever stung by dead bee?)
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To: kruss3

Did he say we lost the Tet offensive?


5 posted on 06/09/2005 11:23:47 AM PDT by Gigantor (Nuclear power is the simple and cheap solution to the entire world's energy problems.)
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No, he said the Communists massacred thousands of civilians in the Tet offensive - which is true.


6 posted on 06/09/2005 11:33:21 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: stan_25

Give him a piece of your mind at:

http://www.thomasbass.com/


7 posted on 06/09/2005 11:40:35 AM PDT by GOP-Gringo ("When you are getting kicked from the rear, it means you are out in front!" -- Charles Kettering)
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To: stan_25

Enraging...


8 posted on 06/09/2005 12:27:14 PM PDT by beeler ("When you’re running down my country, Hoss you’re walking on the fighting side of me.")
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