Ann Coulter Speaks -- on Rather, Cronkite and Vietnam

[Ned]

Most of her recent column is on Rathergate, but she ends on this note, which identifies why CBS screwed up and why Cronkite was critical to America losing the Vietnam war.

"The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth show the role of the individual in history. It wasn't Republican strategists who finished Kerry off two months before the election; it was the American people. The Swift Boat veterans came along and kicked Kerry in the shins and no matter how much heat they took, they were brave and wouldn't give up. The veterans who served with Kerry told the truth and the American people listened (as soon as they managed to locate a copy of "Unfit for Command" hidden on one of the back shelves at their local bookstores).

CBS was forced to run a fake story so early in the campaign that it was exposed as a fraud – only because of the Swift Boat vets. These brave men, many of them decorated war heroes, have now not only won the election for Bush, they have ended Dan Rather's career.

It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people. Ironically, the leader of that effort was Rather's predecessor at CBS News, Walter Cronkite, president of the Ho Chi Minh Admiration Society.

It was Cronkite who went on air and lied about the Tet offensive, claiming it was a defeat for the Americans. He told the American people the war was over and we had lost. Ronald Reagan said CBS News officials should have been tried for treason for those broadcasts.

CBS has already lost one war for America. The Swift Boat Vets weren't going to let CBS lose another one."

http://www.anncoulter.org/

[Bosh]

Damn those perfidious liberals! Will they stop at nothing?

[Ned]

Originally posted by Boshko
Damn those perfidious liberals! Will they stop at nothing?

Not liberals. Scum left. Liberalism was once a very honorable movement that sought to bring greater freedom and liberty to mankind. Today, that is the honor of the Republican party, who are known as neocons or conservatives. Today's liberals are yesterday's Marxists of varying extremes. All one has to do is read the Communist Manifesto to understand where a "liberal" will come out on any issue.

[Kropotkin]

She's so funny!

[MikeH]

And if you read Mein Kampf you can find out where the Republicans come out. /equally insane comparison

[loinburger]

At least she's honest enough to equate the disastrous war in Iraq to the disastrous war in Vietnam.

[Ned]

MikeH, there are anachonisms, but on the whole, today's left follows that "hallowed" roadmap almost religiously.

[Ned]

loinburger -- the comonality lies in the deliberate subversion of CBS news.

[MikeH]

The Communist Manifesto suggests such radical things as "free education for all" and "free healthcare for all". You mean stuff like that? Those crazy insane leftists!

[Kropotkin]

I'm particulary amused by heir homegrown, all-american version of die Dolchstoßlegende:

It's often said that we never lost a battle in Vietnam, but that the war was lost at home by a seditious media demoralizing the American people.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ned


Not liberals. Scum left. Liberalism was once a very honorable movement that sought to bring greater freedom and liberty to mankind. Today, that is the honor of the Republican party, who are known as neocons or conservatives. Today's liberals are yesterday's Marxists of varying extremes. All one has to do is read the Communist Manifesto to understand where a "liberal" will come out on any issue.

hilarious

Part of the Republican party is tied to the religious right -- the group of people who oppose liberty and equality.

[Ned]

Yes, MikeH. And things like steep, progressive taxation, "emancipation" of women from marriage (i.e., traditional marriages are bad), the labor movement, state ownership of major business, control of the press, etc., etc., etc.

[Harovan]

I have to stop lurking this thread whilst at work. "CBS has already lost one war for America" made me laugh that hard, that my vis-a-vis coworker raised his eyebrows, guessing why all of a sudden I find my work that funny.

[Kontiki]

I'm sure Malevolent Light and others will rejoice at finally seeing a piece of fair, unbiased reporting like this. Although it still has some unpleasant tinges of leftism because John Kerry isn't referred to as "the traitorous, rat-bastard, pile of sh*t Kerry". When oh when will we finally get the the full, objective truth from the media?

[Ned]

Originally posted by MrFun


hilarious

Part of the Republican party is tied to the religious right -- the group of people who oppose liberty and equality.

MrFun, I am not a member of the religious right. Never have been. There are people like Schwarzenegger and Guiliani who are Republicans. Don't paint with a too broad brush.