[ClaireSolt]

C-span has a fascinating interview by a Wapo correspondant and a CA professor who wrote Perfect Spy. You wouldn't believe it without seeing it. The big news is that this Viet Cong spy worked for Time magazine and all of the American journalists relied on him.

There is no consideration of how that colored the news we got. The whole conversation is a justification for the spin of the anti war movement that we were interfering on the wrong side of a nationalistic civil war.

[MNJohnnie]

Interesting now to consider that their are Iraqi stringers, who worked for AP in Iraq, who are in Iraqi prisons caught red handed building bombs with the Insurgents.

Seems the Leftist Anti American media hasn’t learned a thing from the 1960s and their part in creating the Killing Fields.

[bray]

Iteresting that civil war was used then and is used now. There is no civil war in Iraq. 90% of the terrorists are foreigners.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Phsstpok]

C-span has a fascinating interview by a Wapo correspondant and a CA professor who wrote Perfect Spy. You wouldn't believe it without seeing it. The big news is that this Viet Cong spy worked for Time magazine and all of the American journalists relied on him.

There is no consideration of how that colored the news we got. The whole conversation is a justification for the spin of the anti war movement that we were interfering on the wrong side of a nationalistic civil war.

This is an important post and the truth of it must be widely distributed.  The reference is to Pham Xuan An, a North Vietnamese Intelligence Colonel who worked for Reuters and Time Magazine as a correspondent during the war.  The West may be quick to forget how they were betrayed, but the rest of the world has been studying our failures with single minded devotion, particularly folks like Al Qaeda.  I would bet that upwards of 75% of "reporters" covering the middle east are at the least friendly to Al Qaeda and the other Jihadis.  Those that aren't friendly enough are simply killed, and the west does nothing about it, including the journalists.

Sheeple that they are.