Posted on 12/16/2020 7:29:34 PM PST by RightGeek
Love it.
Appreciate the laugh.
The “I’d Rather not receive this Award” award....
Is this a “gag” award?
This is why there’s no Albert Speer award in supply chain management.
#18. The Dan RAT Award for betraying our troops in So. Vietnam.
One night I had a very long talk with a veteran Vietnam reporter from the Minneapolis Tribune about many topis.
When we talked about the accuracy and professionalism of other reporters (I was a MACV accredited reporter for Human Events Weekly on a short-term fact-finding mission, etc), he said that the 1 Marine Division soldiers hated CBS,including Rather, Webster and Safer (more for reported criminal money-changing/short changing his crews by paying them in the lesser valued Vietnamese Piaster (170 to the US. Dollar).
He reportedly had his US payroll converted (or already in US dollars), on the black market where he could get 400P to one US dollar instead of the 170P. Allegedly he kept the difference).
All I know from that conversation, in a hotel across from the famed Continental Hotel on Tu Do Street, was that my new friend was really pissed at CBS journalists and that some were lucky to get out of Nam alive. They would have been killed by our troops and blamed it on the commies.
A shame that it didn’t happen. A lot of US “journalists” on the liberal/left side of the ideological spectrum were NOT supportive of our effort to protect the freedom of the countries/people of SE from Communist aggress.
Some of them became “social democrats” or “progressives” later in life as they “outted” themselves. You just had to know who they were - hint, about 5 from the Wash. Post, some of whom are journalism professors today.
Professional journalists, including those who supported the war against communist aggression, were brave, professional and honorable men and women. Some of them are still alive today and I salute all of them. It was an honor and privilege to have meals and talks with them in Saigon and at the Royal Hotel in Pnom Penh, Cambodia.
I later met a few such as Simon-Nette, who changed their negative views of what was going on in later life, and admitted that they had made wrong assessments about the war and what was at stake, and it affected the way they wrote about it.
What’s the frequency, Kenneth!!!!
Wow, a very interesting piece of history which I’ve only read of. Just wondering if you ever met Sean Flynn and Dana Stone.
Winning the Dan Rather award will be like winning THE FICKLED FINGER OF FATE award.
How about we name a group of Battered Women’s Shelters after O J Simpson ????
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