Posted on 12/13/2007 11:18:37 AM PST by William Tell 2
There is a disputed quote, attributed to North Vietnamese General Võ Nguyên Giáp, which states the American military would have won the Vietnam War were it not for the efforts of the American media to demoralize the nation. Giap purportedly wrote, "What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. ... We were ready to surrender! ... We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields."
While this quote is disputed, it is quite plausible. During the Vietnam War the liberal media anxiously reported sensationalized - and false - stories of atrocities by American troops.
Unfortunately, they got away with it then. This time it is different. This time the new media stopped them.
Recently, the esteemed magazine The New Republic (TNR) published ---
Read the full piece here
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19112039&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=623508&rfi=6
The traitors in Vietnam weren’t afraid that we’d never win, they wanted the Communists to win and were decidedly PRO-Communist. Not just for Vietnam, they wanted US to go Communist too.
Jane Fonda was quite public with her Red Dreams.
They are succeeding.
The media is full of marxists. They want to destroy this country.
How is it even posib le t ocharacterize the entire mass media as “liberal” when it is owned and controlled by only 5 corporations, and those corporations are owned and controlled by the so-called “establishment”.
The American mainstream mass media is the mouthpiece for the establishment, and the false dichotomy of liberal versus conservative media, is merely a front the etablishment puts up to make us believe the fairy tale that there is still choice in America. It is also a manifestation of the “divide and conquer” strategy that the establishment uses to mislead and control the rest of us who are blind, deaf, dumb, and/or willfully ignorant enough to continue buying into it.
There is no “liberal” media. There is no “conservative” media. There is the media, and it is controlled by a very small handfull of the world’s richest people, who make into whatever suits them and their purposes, from one day to the next.
The Republicans and Democrats do NOT represent two opposing political ideologies. They are two sides to the same coin, and than coin is deep in the pocket of their owners, the same poeople who own and control the media so as to give their fgake political parties a platform from which to bamboozle and disinform the public into making choices that are not choices at all, but foregone conclusions, no matter which party is allowed to “dominate”.
Leftism and rightism are both illusions bought into by people of very limited thinking and observational skills.
Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (The Warriors) (Paperback)
by Cecil B. Currey (Author)
I think that this is the source of the quote.
Yeah however there are those who claim he never said that and since I could not find an original document I said it was disputed.
Then again Bogie never said play it again sam and it is still a great movie.
If we ever go to war again, our military command should go to the Congress and just say.....”OK....if we do this, we do it our way. The minute you get involved, we come home. The minute the media trys to make us look bad, we come home. The minute you try and make our Commander in Chief look bad, we come home.” One thing for sure, if the military doesn’t want to fight, there is no war.
Well, yes...but pointing out the puppet show on a site known for such deeply held emotional opinions isn't going to win you any brownie points. ;)
The obvious leftist editorial policies and practices of the Drive-By Media is independent of their corporate ownership. It makes no sense to cite consolidation of ownership as contraindicating the reality of blatant media bias.
Corporations are generally amoral and lacking in political ideology. They are interested in return on investment, that is all.
DING DING DING!!! we have a winner!
contraindicating = contradicting
[brain fart]
The "Establishment" covets our precious bodily fluids. Down with the Establishment.
Leftism and rightism are both illusions bought into by people of very limited thinking and observational skills.
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Did you or did you not just summarize all the writings of Ayn Rand in one sentence?
So you do not have a philosophy ?
Just what do you think leftism and rightism are code words for ?
You think that Ayn Rand and Karl Marx hold the same beliefs ?
I suggest that you are projecting the illusion of your thinking ability onto others.
Strictly speaking, Fascism is only considered to be “on the right” by those far on the left.
It explains the collaboration between Mussolini and Stalin.
Ayn Rand is not a centrist :)
Are there any photos of this? Would you be willing to provide a statement about this? Exact location, dates times unit etc Anybody with you to corroborate?
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