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To: steve-b
We hear of it only because the MSM saw an opportunity for a leftist spin. You obviously don't get it. I'm not afraid of the truth, but I am concerned about the effect that the MSM has on public opinion and morale within the military.

As I mentioned before, it seems like only yesterday that I heard Walter Cronkite reporting on his take of the situation in Vietnam after the 1968 Tet offensive. He took a trip to Vietnam and returned with a report that called it a stalemate when most everyone in the miltary was saying the opposite. In fact, we never lost a major battle during the nearly ten years we were there. But how did the MSM paint it? Do you remember?

176 posted on 11/17/2004 11:46:12 AM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
I'm not afraid of the truth

Nonsense. Your hostility to Poohbah's "let the truth be seen, warts and all" position reveals otherwise.

I am concerned about the effect that the MSM has on public opinion

Public opinion is a healthy republic is shaped by access to as wide a variety of information as possible, within legitimate constraints of national security and personal privacy.

I'm sure that left-wing Democrats are "concerned" about the effect rational economic analysis has on "public opinion" toward their agenda. By your reasoning, Democrats should be allowed to suppress the study of economics.

180 posted on 11/17/2004 12:05:48 PM PST by steve-b (I put sentences together suspiciously well for a righty blogger.)
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