Pressing On - Our troops deserve better than a Vietnam-era press.

National Review Online ^ | July 05, 2006 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

[Army Air Corps]

Big ping Tonk.

[monkeywrench]

"I hope the Buffalo News’s treatment of Zerkle and Bellavia is not a harbinger of a return to the bad old days of the post-Vietnam mutual mistrust between the press and the military. Morally smug journalists need to remember "

That this time around they will be the ones getting spat at and called 'baby killers'.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

EVERYBODY -- and I do mean EVERYBODY -- deserves a better press than we got. Real baby-killers were treated better by the MSM than returning Vietnam veterans back then.
Will Iraq and Afghanistan vets get better treatment? I hope so, but experience tells me not to expect it.

[Cindy]

"Our troops deserve better than a Vietnam-era press."

DITTO that.

[lilylangtree]

Mainstream media is so liberal leftist anti-war on terror lapdogs of demoncRAT party. WE THE PEOPLE deserve better.

[Army Air Corps]

The MSM is using many of the same memes that they employed during the battle for the Republic of Viet Nam. Same s***, different day.

[Cindy]

HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS, though in today's post-Vietnam world.

There is the widely-read FreeRepublic.com.

There are numerous blogs which strive for factual
accuracy and blogs are bringing down the cutesy,
opinionated, lame-stream media.

There are military blogs and .mil sites open to the
public.

DEFENSElink.mil is widely read.

The Internet is a handy communication tool to get
the word out.

And that is today's good news, in my opinion.

[YOUGOTIT]

The distrust of the Press is NOW and they are supporters of the terrorist as can be seen in the articles of the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and all of the main stream media on television.

The press and reporters are SCUM and traitors to this great nation they want the terrorist to win and will do anything to make it so.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Democrats were in control during Nam era,they cut and ran and the south fell.

[KeyLargo]

American Gladiator ........ This is worth seeing



http://objflicks.com/gladiator.swf



Cut and paste the above site. It is definitely worth seeing.

[Restorer]

Democrats were in control during Nam era,they cut and ran and the south fell.

Democrats controlled Congress pretty constantly throughout this period.

Democrats were in the White House during the getting into and escalation phases. The GOP was in the White House throughout the cut-and-run period.

[Army Air Corps]

I agree 100%. The rise of the Internet provided the means by which people can bypass the sludge-filled information pipeline of the LSM. Between e-mail from troops who are o'er there and sites like FR, the truth can reach the people without being filtered and altered by our "friends" in the media.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"EVERYBODY -- and I do mean EVERYBODY -- deserves a better press than we got. Real baby-killers were treated better by the MSM than returning Vietnam veterans back then.
Will Iraq and Afghanistan vets get better treatment? I hope so, but experience tells me not to expect it."

Viet Vet in Augusta GA

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Unless people start to actually stick up for our troops now,
they (today's troops) will get the same treatment as so many of us did.

Unless the people today, take a stand against
the likes of hanoi kerry and cut and run murtha etc,
they (today's troops) will get the same treatment as so many of us did.

Unless the "so called other conservative forums" actually understand while they remain silent in condemming the NY Times, etc,
they (today's troops) will get the same treatment as so many of us did.

[Cindy]

DITTO.

[Army Air Corps]

Huzzah and bump. Spot on, as usual.

[jazusamo]

BTTT

[fanfan]

BTTT

[MNJohnnie]

Great post. Thank you.