Beware the press with an agenda

If you’re old enough to remember Vietnam, you’ll remember seeing these photographs that Neoneocon describes. I remember them well, and at the time, I was upset but suspicious that we weren’t being given the whole story. During the Vietnam years, I had seen enough duplicity and self-righteousness among the people who proclaimed themselves “pacifists” and “warriors for peace” (traitorous Jane Fonda comes to mind, as do many of the celebrities of that era), that I distrusted much of what the elites told me (and yes, I knew they were elites, even back then, because they took pains to distinguish themselves from the rubes and hicks among which I included myself). 

I’ve known the truth about the photo showing General Loan executing the Viet Cong terrorist for decades, but to this day I had never heard the true story of the little napalmed girl. And that’s not right. Because they are pulling the same kind of crap today, thirty plus years later. 

(h/t Dr. Sanity)