I am in serious danger of temper unlike any I have ever known.
If you took all of American History and looked for the darkest “event”, the thing that people around the world beat us over the head with more than anything else, would it not be the Vietnam War? If you took every conflict the United States has participated in and drew a picture of the soldier involved, is not that the ONLY war that people draw a negative image? Here at home, have we not completely bought into the concept that this war was an atrocity, a “quagmire”, produced the worst in human nature, exposed normal young men to hell and brought them back as sub-human demons?
I have been developing, since the junior senator from Massechusetts (my birth state, alas) brought Vietnam up again, a surer and surer impression that everything we’ve been told, though history and movies and stories, and all other media from “so-called” news to “so-called” entertainment, is FALSE.
A few very well placed stories, though they were even refuted at their time, allowed a group of people who so desperately WANTED it to be hell and to have something to blame Americans for (some of them, it must be admitted, were Americans, but I do suspect they were cleverly manipulated through encouragement by foreigners who had a vested interest in doing us harm) to build an image on lies.
The truth is at last coming out, and lies are dying the most amazing self-defeating death: because someone got away with it in the past, they are convinced they can get away with it again.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200409150552.asp
These people have, time and again, committed the TRUE worst attrocities. They have materially damaged this country, tarnished our image around the world by fueling our enemies with falsities and outright lies. Done unintentionally or on good faith this is called being a "patsy". Done intentionally or even willfully, it is treason.
Those who would carry the torch to illuminate freedom, and I believe the press is the most powerful of these forces, have an awesome responsibility to seek the TRUTH whether they like what they find or not, not to pass off what they WANT to be as the TRUTH.
I am sickened, and though I do not wish long-term ill on anyone, I would rejoice in the complete implosion of CBS news and it's utter destruction as a news service. Nothing short of this will be a sufficient lesson to the rest. They want the total removal of Enron? So be it. Let us have equality.
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Holy Crrrrrap. I read the article. That's unbelievable. At least, it should be unbelievable. It's outrageous. It's sick. And you won't hear it on the national news. You won't hear them talk about the fact that one of their own, one of their ICONS, is a friggin liarMCliarpants... BIGTIME. That's just scary.
-k
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