Newsweek Throws the Spitter - repeats the myth of the gobbed-upon Vietnam vet (LIBERAL SPIT ALERT)

slate.com ^ | Jan. 30, 2007 | Jack Shafer

[Chi-townChief]

"He did, however, uncovered ample news stories about anti-war protesters receiving the saliva shower from anti-anti-war types."

So, in one fell swoop, Slate tries to create a new myth: that the anti-war hippie scum were actually the one being spat upon, ignoring for the moment that they outnumbered pro-Americans at these events by about 2,000 to 1.

[new yorker 77]

Why spit on a soldier when you can just stay at home on Election Day.

At least the spitters are up front about their hatred for the troops.

(sarcasm)

[Robe]

If it weren't for a cop who grabbed me by the arm and said "the punk ain't worth it" a SF hippie would have made it to the emergency room...then it would have made it into the press!!!!!

[LdSentinal]

Newsweek is trying to protect Hillary Clinton, as I'm sure she spat on many American soldiers during the 1960s.

[El Gato]

The same folks are denying that anyone has spit on Soldiers back from Iraq, yet we have a first hand account of that happening during the recent Traitors March for Defeat in DC.

The author discounts the "testimonials by those who claim to have been gobbed upon". Why? They were there. As for why they didn't relate it to reporters, well by then reporters were the enemy... plus at the time no one would want to publicize the fact they had been "gobbed upon", without knocking the gobber senseless.

[the Real fifi]

Utter B.S> and well-dissected here:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2007/02/why_is_jack_sha.html

[Retired Chemist]

A friend of mine is a Vietnam vet. He says he was spat upon when he returned to the United States via San Francisco.

[Jeff Chandler]

Why spit on a soldier when you can just stay at home on Election Day.

OCD Spam Alert.

[smoothsailing]

Lembcke and Shafer have been pushing this lie ever since the first Gulf War.

Oldie but goodie thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1276799/posts

[MNJohnnie]

Interesting. A complete manufactured lie created specifically to deny historical fact is NOW hyped as "truth" by the Left.

To test the hypothesis. Ask ANYONE who has attend as a protest warrior or counter protester at an "anti War" event. You will here endless stories of situations where the counter protester has been spit on. You will find NONE going the other way. This is one of the reason the Political Left is so grotesquely unfit for power at any level. Rather then simply deal with an unpleasant truth from their past they must continually change factual reality to conform to their personal emotional whimsy.

[WTSand]

From your source:

The author of the "urban myth" view is Holy Cross professor and Vietnam Veteran Against The War alumni Jerry Lembcke.

email: jlembcke@holycross.edu

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Taxman might have soemthing to say about this crap.

[6SJ7]

Next, 'Newspeak' will inform us the term 'baby killer' was never used. Refs unpersons rewrite fullwise.

[navyguy]

Denial and Projection are 2 of the three core pillars on Liberal psychology (the third being Fear).


This is a perfect example... deny that leftists have ever spit on military people and then say that war supporters spit on leftists.

When dealing with Liberals you are dealing with 7th grade girls.

[Volunteer]

"When dealing with Liberals you are dealing with 7th grade girls."

Sir, while I think your statement is accurate, I also think that it is unfair to 7th grade girls.

The 7th grade girls might not know better.

[quinhon6869]

I returned from Vietnam on Labor Day Weekend, 1969 and processed out at Oakland, CA. I was part of the first wave of Nixon's troop reduction in Vietnam and we log-jammed the system. I was at Cam Rahn Bay for three days and then shipped over to Long Binh for a day or so to get on a flight out.
We arrived at Oakland Army Base on Friday of the Labor Day Weekend and the lifers there gave us a separation date of Tuesday (they were going on weekend leave) and we were just going to have to sit there for three days. A number of returnees began calling their Congressmen and within hours, all weekend leaves were cancelled!
Anyway, I and about twenty others made our way to Oakland Airport on Saturday evening, in new uniforms and damn happy to be "back in the world." People at the airport were friendly and there were several business men buying drinks at the bar. It was the same on the plane, as the stews brought us drinks paid for by passengers.
Shortly after I was home, the mayor of my city (Orange, CA) sent me a letter commending me for my service in Vietnam and asking me to come to the next city council meeting so that they could thank me in person.
No hippies, no spit, no insults, but that's not to say that it didn't happen to some.

[JoeDetweiler]

From CBS Evening News, Dec 27, 1971

Abstract: (Studio) January, 1971, report on medics in Vietnam recalled; retd. medic featured.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Manhattan, Kansas) Delmar Pickett, Junior, hero, returns from Vietnam, finds US indifferent to war; vets' unemployment high; returns to school at Kansas State University as better student than before Vietnam experience. [Student Gwyn STEERE - speaks of Pickett's modesty.] [Vietnam film from earlier feature shown.] Pickett home is in Olsburg, Kansas. [PICKETT - tells of being spit on in Seattle, WA.] Disillusioned but not downed by Vietnam experience. [PICKETT - tells of experience as medic in Vietnam.] [Father Delmar PICKETT, Senior - says son more settled.] [MOTHER - says son a much better student than formerly.] Drugs no problem for Pickett. 2 1/2 million Vietnam vets.
REPORTER: Morton Dean

http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1971-12/1971-12-27-CBS-17.html

[Drango]

For the record, in SF in 2002-2003 during a counter FReep at an anti-war rally with perhaps 100,000 left wing, maggots. I WAS SPIT UPON for holding an American flag. And the press didn't report it.

[ex-Texan]

I was living in San Francisco in 1967. I never saw anybody spit on soldiers returning from Vietnam. But I did see hippies confront soldiers getting off flights in the S.F. airport. No spitting, just rude comments. I got the distinct feeling that no soldier would tolerate spitting or other overt physical abuse.