Pham Xuan An, 79; Reporter for Time, Spy for Viet Cong (this one makes my blood boil)

Washington Post ^ | September 21, 2006 | Patricia Sullivan

[Stashiu]

I can still hear Walter Cronkite saying “This war is lost” after Tet of 68. Wonder if the spin came from that fellow traveler, especially in light of the VC/NVA catastrophic losses of that endeavor.

[BARLF]

Sorry......LOL

[sanchmo]

First, but not the last traitor working for the American media

No, not the first either. Remember Walter Duranty's cheerleading for Uncle Joe Stalin, and Herbert Metthews for Castro & el Che. There is a long tradition of American journalists lying for a "higher cause," and of journalists & leftists admiring them & supporting them even after their lies have been exposed.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

The good news is that the old commie is dead.

The bad news is that Time isn’t.

Michael Frazier

[andy58-in-nh]

That's OK. In spite of being popular with the Hate America Left and the news media (insofar as there is a distinction), Hillary does carry a lot of baggage...

"Although Hillary Clinton set the mark by raising $26 million for her presidential campaign in the first quarter of 2007, Mitt Romney, the Republican, was right behind her with $23 million. That's something Hillary hasn't felt in 20 years -- a man breathing down her neck." --Jay Leno

"Hillary Clinton says if she is elected president, she will use Bill Clinton as an ambassador because 'she can't think of a better cheerleader for America.' To which Bill Clinton said, 'I can think of 20 and I have their phone numbers'." --Conan O'Brien

[weegee]

Not even the only traitor working for Time Magazine. They boast of having a reporter embedded with the “insurgents” in Iraq.

He was with Saddam’s troops when Saddam was captured.

[BARLF]

Hillary does carry a lot of baggage

Yeah, but that's all behind her.

;))

Thanks for the jokes, I needed a giggle.

[weegee]

“I hereby recommend that Time name Pham Xuan An as Time Man of the Year.”

Adolph Hitler got “Time Magazine, Man of the Year”. This useful idiot sounds like a good candidate.

[nkycincinnatikid]

bump

[GodGunsGuts]

Did you hear about this???

[Billthedrill]

One more crossed off my little list. Vietnam was the first time it became obvious that certain, perhaps many, members of the American press consider their first loyalties to something superior than those implied by their citizenship. Unfortunately this does not turn out to be anything quite so noble as an allegiance to the truth, come what may, as is popularly supposed. It became corrupted into an allegiance to an international order that is not to be so questioned, and whose truth is to be dictated and not discovered.

This is helpful in gaining access to other members of that international media class as sources but is profoundly corrosive with respect to reporting the truth. That truth now must be vetted with an eye to acceptibility within a framework that is far from disinterested with respect to the United States. That disinterest used to be considered the sine qua non of journalistic objectivity; the latter is now regarded as old-fashioned and counterproductive to the accumulation of political power by the media. As such it has been widely discarded, and the only measure of journalistic independence has been twisted into the level to which the story criticizes the United States.

That phenomenon is not restricted to media mores, it is reflected within academia as well. It has spawned an entire canon of anti-Americanism that is the sole badge of respectability within the affected classes. One may see its effect in the boiler-plate apology offered by American presenters within those communities for being American, and in the reciprocal assumption that the only "good" American is one who publicly disowns his or her country. The price of that credibility is a fouled intellectual environment within which the only truth that counts is the truth that serves.

The only cure for this is popular scorn for such moral sellouts and a return to insistence on some level of even-handedness between national and international allegiance. That will most affect the most corrupt institutions, notably CNN and the BBC and yes, certainly Time magazine and a host of others. But the adulation paid within the journalistic community to this particular individual who so corrupted it is deeply disappointing.

[geezerwheezer]

It took 20 years for the American public to realize Cronkite was a pinko “journalist” whose loyalty lay outside the U.S.A. He, and many still like him, lied to us, and continue to do so. Yet, most of them say it is our government doing the lying, and a good portion of our people believe them. The good part is, we now have the Internet, and a lot of us aren’t afraid to set those bastards straight and call them liars and frauds. Could this be why s many dimowits want to control the internet?

[Unam Sanctam]

Nowadays, it would be hard to tell the difference between foreign enemy spies and just plain old anti-American liberal media employees.

[ripley]

“the war is lost”

that is blatant treachery. if he knew the war was lost then why did he not know and report that the v.c. and n.v.a. were not successful in taking any city or keeping any installation for any length of time?

of course, he did know that the v.c. were not successful and that the war would be won or lost at home, in the media, with a constant drumbeat of negativity that he helped to perpetrate.

he and his cohorts attempted to destroy morale at home, which in turn was conveyed to the soldiers who served there...and the conspiracy continues, just like a bad dream that none acknowlege.

IMHO

[GATOR NAVY]

...his job as a spy was to uncover and report the plans of the South Vietnamese and U.S. military...He said he did not lie, tilt the news or spread disinformation in the stories he filed.

Well if he said so, that's good enough for us!

Signed, the MSM

[Stashiu]

We lost two of our guys during Tet of that year. They made the mistake of running a jeep along Plantation Road, between Ton Son Nhut and Cholon(Saigon). We did not know at that time that the race track was being used as a VC/NVA field hospital for their offensive.

Ya think Pham Xuan An new about that?

[BlackElk]

What an awful thing to say about mere fellow travelers!

[BlackElk]

What an awful thing to say about mere pinkos! In a 1968 Look magazine interview with the late Oriana Fallaci, Comrade Cronkite was asked what his politics were. He said that it would be inappropriate for him to affiliate with a political party. Fallaci then said: not your party but your philosophy! Comrade Cronkite: "Oh, I suppose you would say that I am an unreconstructed 1930s radical."

Remember that Cronkite is the Anglicized form of the German krankheit (which means sickness).

[Cacique]

btt

[DesScorp]

I’ve said it so many times, and this only reinforces it. The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column. Full of traitors up and down.