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'Perfect Spy' tells an incredible tale [spy was a journalist, and helped kill U.S. troops]
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| May 27, 2007
| Blair Anthony Robertson
Posted on 06/02/2007 9:56:42 AM PDT by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark
You're an avid runner and a healthy guy. What was it like being around a guy who smokes all the time? Only a highly trained and well-indoctrinated liberal journalist would think to ask a question like that.
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posted on
06/02/2007 10:44:53 AM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: weegee
While he became an American citizen (after 20 years on American television
telling us what to think), he still proclaimed himself a dual citizen
and a Canadian.
If he was keeping one foot on the Canadian side of the border in
hopes that socialized medicine would save him...
he was sadly very wrong!
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posted on
06/02/2007 10:49:23 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: 68skylark
Go draw a parallel with MSN coverage of Iraq.
Both the Dem party and the MSM joined forces to whiteflag and run.
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posted on
06/02/2007 10:50:53 AM PDT
by
hermgem
(The same)
To: 68skylark
How has nobody commented on this particular sentence yet:
He came to California to go to college in the late 1950s on assignment? He was developing as a spy?
He had no choice. He did not want to go, but his party ordered him to do it. This is what is the most interesting thing to me historically about his whole life, the foresight of the Communist Vietnamese. In 1955, to recognize that the United States was slowly but surely coming -- even though the French had been defeated, even though the Japanese had been defeated -- the Vietnamese would not be allowed to determine their future...
I see...so the Communist North Vietnamese were holding open and fair elections at the time and asking everybody in the country their opinion about what form of government Vietnam should adopt until those pesky Americans and their damn choppers showed up and started shooting up the place? Is that really the lie liberals tell themselves to cover their cowardice in Vietnam and condemning generations of Vietnamese to Communist rule? Puh-LEEEZE. And don't even get me started on Cambodia. The Left has more blood on their hands from Vietnam era foreign policy (if we can even call it "policy") than Hannibal Lechter.
jas3
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posted on
06/02/2007 10:58:47 AM PDT
by
jas3
To: Clintonfatigued
In this same anti-American vein:
1. TheMSM admiration for Fidel.
2. The refusal to recognize the Rosenburgs as traitors even aften proof positive was discovered in Russian archives.
3. The continued antipathy toward McCarthy’s hunt for spies in gvt. and Holywood.
4. Refusal to brand Algier Hiss a traitor after proof from Russian archives and continued hate for Whitaker Chambers (ex-Communist who also worked for Time)for testifying against Hiss.
5. Continued fawning over Jane Fonda, US traitor and accused (by former POWs)murdererss of POWs.
These are just some of the more egregiious items. One could go on for pages.
God bless America and God help us to continue to fight the good fight against her destroyers.
vaudine
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posted on
06/02/2007 10:59:12 AM PDT
by
vaudine
To: 68skylark
If the article hadn’t stated he died, I’d say he’s currently employed at the New York Times.
46
posted on
06/02/2007 10:59:32 AM PDT
by
RasterMaster
(BUILD THE WALL, ENFORCE THE LAW! Duncan Hunter - President 2008)
To: jas3
Yeah, I noticed that sentence too. There are just so many objectionable things in this whole story that it's hard to point them all out. But you're right on the money -- equating communist expansion with "self determination" is quite a stretch.
I guess there were quite a few Vietnamese who fell in with communism because the communists seemed to offer the best path to independence. But it was a bad bargain for them and their country, and we shouldn't white-wash that fact today like the left in the U.S. does.
To: 68skylark
I'm suprised that his former co-workers continued to admire him and keep on friendly terms even after they learned he was spying for the North, and that his information helped kill Americans. How many Islmo-wackos you suppose work for AOLTimeWarnerCNN right now? We know that many work more or less openly for Al Reuters and AP. They only get fired when they get caught in blatant fabrications, not just when their reportage is blatantly biased.
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:47:37 AM PDT
by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: 68skylark
He helped plan the Tet Offensive of 1968, including helping the man who planned the attack on the U.S. Embassy. This was the offensive where thousands of innocent civilians were massacred by the Communists. And I bet he was a "contributor" to the stories which made Tet out to be a Victory for the VC and NVA. Which it most assuredly was not, except on SEE-BS, in Time, Life, etc, and of course in the halls of Congress.
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:49:49 AM PDT
by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: 68skylark
Journalism in America has developed into a forum for Treason and Sedition. That has been obvious since the Korean War.
Well you could say the same thing about a very large number of journalists during the Revolutionary War (Royalists), the quasi-war with France (anti-Federalists), the War of 1812 (nearly all of New England, especially early in the war), the War with Mexico (lots of folks), and especially the Civil War (Copperheads), not to mention anti-imperalists during the Spanish-American war. Hostile reporters are not a new phenomenon.
*****
Those earlier cases were different. The Civil War, for example, did not have Americans opting to turn the country over to the Barbary pirates. Both sides in the Civil War were fighting for home and country. That is much different from simply being on the enemy side.
We had rather few outright traitors in WWII, except for some communists working under cover in the FDR administration. Later on, things changed. Today, much of the media is on the other side, and are plainly anti-American.
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:53:03 AM PDT
by
docbnj
To: 68skylark
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:54:29 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: 68skylark
He didn't spy for money or glory. He spied just for his country. His country was Vietnam. He spied for his ideology, not his country. He worked to ensure that his country would be a slave state, which it remains, more or less, to this day.
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:57:48 AM PDT
by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: docbnj
Those earlier cases were different. You make several good points -- our challenges today are indeed different to what Americans faced in the past.
I was just trying to say that we shouldn't kid ourselves about some golden age in the past when the press supported the military and our military missions -- there are lots of examples from history where that wasn't true.
Overall, freepers sometimes seem to feel that our challenges today are especially difficult, and that people had it easier in a rosy past. I think just the opposite -- compared to the past, the present looks pretty rosy to me.
To: 68skylark
He didn't spy for money or glory. He spied just for his country.
Whether he was an enemy or not, I consider that a noble thing. Wanna bet he doesn't find the same nobility in an Erwin Rommel, or Robert E. Lee?
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posted on
06/02/2007 2:27:44 PM PDT
by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Clintonfatigued
. First of all that a man who helped kill U.S troops is allowed to become an American citizen without even serving jail time That was true of lots of German soldiers after both WW-I, and WW-II.
But what this guy did was different, in the nature of a false flag operations, which IIRC is a violation of the law of war, but then again such niceties rarely bother communists or jihadies.
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posted on
06/02/2007 2:33:24 PM PDT
by
El Gato
(The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: 68skylark
i know, “my country right or wrong?” I think not.
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posted on
06/03/2007 7:24:08 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
(Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
To: 68skylark
the msm are guerrillas who hide behind the first amendment as they snipe.
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posted on
06/03/2007 7:28:17 AM PDT
by
ripley
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