First, but not the last traitor working for the American media...
Here’s a link to a book about him. Here’s the money quote (why am I not surprised):
Pham Xuan An died of emphysema on September 20, 2006, just eight days after his 79th birthday. His coffin lay in state for two days of public tribute before a funeral with full military honors. Yet, several wreaths at An’s funeral spoke volumes to the An who was not a spy and Hero: “To our beloved teacher Pham Xuan An, we will always cherish your wisdom and friendship,” from the Vietnam Project, Harvard University; “With out deepest gratitude for your counsel and encouragement,” from the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program; “In admiration and loving memory of Pham Xuan An,” from Neil, Susan, Catherine, and Maria Sheehan.
http://hnn.us/articles/37934.html
Pham was kind of at a disadvantage from the other Time reporters in that Pham hat to at least pretend not to be a communist.
Not really. They are committed to their beliefs that the "Killing Fields" were somehow Nixon's fault, not theirs.
Back then, they hired a Communist staffer. Today, they are hiring Islamist staffers. Not just one, but by the hundreds, hand over fist. A news organization isn't a proper news organization today, with proper multi culti credentials, unless it hires Muslim reporters and photographers to do all the Muslim stories. Besides, they have the inside track, they know about the stories before they happen, and they aren't in any danger of being shot or kidnapped by the enemy.
Today, anti-American communist sympathizers work openly at many US media outlets. They solicit classified documents from government employees, write articles disparaging our leaders and spread propaganda telling our soldiers they can’t win and need to go home. In short, they do everything that Pham Xuan An should have been hanged for.
“it’s amazing how the fellow reporters he deceived both admire and defend him to this very day.”
maybe his “fellow reporters” were just fellow travelers and knew all along.
One thing is for sure. If he did not repent before his death, he knows now and forever how verrrrry naughty it was to be a communist.
In 1976, the bureau closed and Mr. Pham endured a year of “reeducation” in Hanoi. He was suspected of becoming too close to Americans and was kept under house arrest, barred from seeing returning veterans or reporters. He was still nominally a military intelligence officer.
By 1990, as Vietnam was reopening to Western visitors, Mr. Pham was promoted to major general and was named a Hero of the People’s Armed Forces, with four military-exploit medals.
“Commie scum. I have read up on this guy. It’s amazing how the fellow reporters he deceived both admire and defend him to this very day.”
doesn’t surprise me at all.
“died of emphysema”
Good, the bastard suffered like the brave men who died as a direct result of his actions. I hope there is a hell for animals such as this, and that it is like the Southern Baptists say.
Only now he realizes everything he believed and fought for was a total, complete lie.
mark
After all, he helped end a terrible war, saving thousands of American lives and bringing a benevolent, peaceful egalitarian communist utopia to the people of Vietnam. I mean really, this guy should get the Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy Carter got it and so did Arafat so he would be in friendly company.
Makes sense to me. /sarcasm
The good news is that the old commie is dead.
The bad news is that Time isn’t.
Michael Frazier
bump
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.
Nowadays, it would be hard to tell the difference between foreign enemy spies and just plain old anti-American liberal media employees.
Well if he said so, that's good enough for us!
Signed, the MSM
btt
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.