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 ...
Stein has had a couple of eloquent articles this week...the other being his column on Mark Felt and Nixon.
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.
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.
Did he say we lost the Tet offensive?
No, he said the Communists massacred thousands of civilians in the Tet offensive - which is true.
Give him a piece of your mind at:
http://www.thomasbass.com/
Enraging...
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