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Politicians and journalists never change: the politicians take whatever stance will insure their elections while the journalists just want a wining byline. While the latest examples seem the most horrendous, today’s partisanship pales beside some of the past examples. Lincoln had a hundred Jane Fondas and as many Walter Cronkites, politicians and press, including General McCellan, who proposed giving up the war, which would have allowed the union to break up and slavery to flourish for another decade or so, perhaps even into the twentieth century. Republican partisanship’s reaction to Woodrow Wilson’s extreme partisanshp killed the the League of Nations. From Geo Washington on, the press has savaged one President after another. Yet, the press supported candidate Eisenhower as he undermined and slandered Truman: Eisenhower ran on a platform to get us out of Korea no matter what the consequences to the free world or America. An American general whose ambitions for the Presidency came before the welfare of the American soldier in a time of war: What greater betrayal! (Of course, TV has its retired generals busy undermining or men in Iraq) George Bush and the nation has fared no worse than Truman facing Eisenhower and the same hostile press. Hopefully future historians will finally tell the truth about Vietnam and the role of both the press and the more surrilous politicians in undermining what was noble effort by the US. (Of course some of Eisenhower’s perfidy had to do with his competition with MacArthur as greatest WWII general). Finally, the press in it’s anti-American bias would not support the Swift Boat veterans in their expose of John Kerry’s undeserved medals and craven cowardice in Vietnam (espeically running from the fight via his phony purple hearts), or the fact that his vehement, even vociferous, opposition to the war was such an obvious cover-up for that cowardice. I thought the press (and even Congress) would at least insist that no future Presidential candidate could be allowed to refuse to open his military records to inspection. Rather the Swift Boat veterans are slandered to this day. I think it’s quite ironic that politicans while smearing the swift boat veterans still fear being swift-boated: having to cough up the true facts.
We seem destined to suffer perpetually from the treachery of partisanship and the distortions of the press. But I feel that lost causes are still worth fighting. Beware NYT, ABC, etc.: The public isn’t always as dumb as the politicos and the press thinks it is!