Comments on: The Pentagon Papers and the press

By: Bob Agard

Bob Agard — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:51:05 +0000

So, who is wagging the tail? In the Viet Nam days, it appears to have been the MSM. Nowadays, it appears to be Obama. In her excellent book “Guilty,” Ann Coulter says it is the media who decides who are the victims, and then various people and groups ride that train as far as it will take them.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:51:11 +0000

Anyone else remember the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Boat People desperately escaping their New Communist Paradise?

Or that they ALL voted Republican if they were lucky enough to make it here? (Srsly, somewhere north of 95%)

From the Left? all we heard was “Party on, dude! we don’t have to go fight in that damn war!”

By: GoneWithTheWind

GoneWithTheWind — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:30:07 +0000

The Vietnam war was a stupid mistake by a inexperienced unqualified too young president and later made unbelieveably worse by an incompetent dishonest old politicians (Johnson). None of this makes Ellsberg a hero he remains a dishonest unindicted traitor. After the communist took over in Vietnam they killed 5 million people in cold blood. I wonder what they think of Ellsberg?

By: DaveindeSwamp

DaveindeSwamp — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:05:20 +0000

I think Ellsberg should still be rotting in Leavenworth with those two d-bags from the post to keep him company

Too bad Robert Strange McNamera is worm food,he should have met Satan from a cell next to Ellsberg

Ellsberg,like Manning ,is simply a damned traitor and should have been treated as such,

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:12:24 +0000

Wow. Thank you for this memory-jogger, Neo.

I was a college student when Watergate broke. If you were to ask me what it was all about I might have an answer of sorts – Nixon ordered the break-in of the Democratic Nat. Committee offices to steal records, or some such. But if you were to ask me how The Pentagon Papers fitted into all this, well, the answer would be lost is the mists of time.

It was part of the zeitgeist, I suppose. It as all anti-Vietnam War, and therefore, anti-Nixon and anti-Kissinger, even if they were not the ones who brought us there.

All we heard was what Walter Cronkite (and if we were truly elite, The New York Times) told us. And boy, did we buy it, hook, line and sinker.

I don’t believe the press so automatically any more. And you know who’s responsible for that? More than anybody, Lou Grant. Yes, the fictional character.

The sanctimonious drivel that came from that MTM spin-off was enough to make me understand that Woodward and Bernstein were not paragons.