Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda
American Thinker,
by
Moni
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
3/7/2023 6:19:00 AM
Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally (snip)? Here's the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP photo that was supposed to p*ick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war (snip) There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. (snip) It ran on the front page of the New York Times (snip) And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: public sentiment abruptly turned against the war
Reply 1 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/7/2023 6:38:55 AM (No. 1419110)
IMHO, the worst of all of the TREASONOUS left was Walter Cronkite! G-d Damn his evil soul to the Hell he so richly deserves! His acolyte "Lying Dan Rather" was no prize either.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
walcb 3/7/2023 7:18:37 AM (No. 1419137)
Thank you for posting. This is another example of how we have been lied to for many years.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/7/2023 9:48:21 AM (No. 1419279)
A perfect example of why 'History' cannot be written in real time. It takes YEARS before all the facts are in.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/7/2023 10:41:52 AM (No. 1419321)
Pulitzer prizes are nothing other than 'journalists' awarding other 'journalists' prizes. Kinda like grade school gold stars.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/7/2023 10:54:12 AM (No. 1419335)
Everyone who wanted to know about this was already aware that the VC executed by the police captain was a murdering terrorist. The only people who got upset with the photo, or the video, were hard-core leftists.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
David Key 3/7/2023 11:05:28 AM (No. 1419348)
The Viet Cong murderer had been caught in the home of a family he murdered. Yes it is rough justice but it was justice and taking place in the midst of a violent period. This is one of the problems with camera's and news reporters mixed into combat situations. There was no context, no pictures of the slaughtered children and parents. It was used by the left to demonize the South Vietnamese govt and soldiers. The real problem with the Vietnam war was the fact that there was no plan to win it. Just a plan not to lose. This contradicted all previous experience with war that we had experienced. The army became more concerned with KIA counts than with clearing and holding territory. The South Vietnamese army managed to hold off the North Vietnamese army until they ran out of munitions and the Democratic controlled House and Senate refused to honor our promises to support them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/7/2023 11:24:47 AM (No. 1419371)
I was there, I didn't see one Leftist Idiot signing up to be a body shield for our troops!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pmcclure 3/7/2023 11:48:53 AM (No. 1419413)
The push towards an American tyranny has been going on for a long time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 3/7/2023 12:22:53 PM (No. 1419471)
ALL Pulitzer Prizes are propaganda and frauds, and have been for quite a number of years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 3/7/2023 1:10:39 PM (No. 1419531)
I heard that the guy shot was a Viet Cong killer who had just been caught murdering people way back at the time, and I have always believed the story, and that a murderer was getting sent, efficiently, to Hell.
I never believed the media much, even in those days. And I've learned to trust them even less in the next 40-50 years.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
pc1eszm 3/8/2023 7:50:26 AM (No. 1420140)
I was born in the early 1960s and I recently came to the realization that this propaganda war against America by the left has been going on my entire life.
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Understand that the Pulitzer Prize has been meaningless for a long time now. Most of those who have won this prize told blatant, left wing promoted lies.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/8/2023 10:27:25 AM (No. 1420272)
Thanks to John F. Kennedy, a young, immature rich boy from New England whose primary talent was chasing pretty girls in Hollywood, we became mired in a war where we had even less business than we did later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our soldiers died from bullets every day so the actions of the Viet Cong were not out of the ordinary. They were also pressured and lost families in the name of a political ideology. We should have learned valuable lessons from that but here we are, getting drawn deeper and deeper into a dispute in Ukraine. The government tells us that we are only giving them supplies and no US Military personnel are involved. They lie and will continue lying until dead bodies begin arriving on the usual ships. We can not resist stupid wars.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
vrb8m 3/8/2023 10:37:59 AM (No. 1420285)
Name should be changed to the Pullet Surprise.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/8/2023 11:16:31 AM (No. 1420315)
I recall another photo running on the front page of the New York slims...Bob Dole...because of his injured arm from the battlefield in WWII...fell when he missed a step ...and the New York slims took a picture of his embarrassing moment...close up and changed his bid for the White House...where's the up close pictures of biden's many falls?...
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No 14 ---- Very Good post.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
janjan 3/8/2023 12:13:11 PM (No. 1420384)
I am old enough to remember this photo very well and also what was being said about it. In my misspent youth I was a Viet Nam war protester. Not because I had any true understanding of good vs evil or the ugliness of communism but because I saw my friends and classmates going to fight this war and returning in body bags or as drug addicts treated like dirt by the public. Years later I joined the Air Force and became convinced we were the good guys and years after that saw the treachery of our leaders and the sainted press. I still love America but will always carry that cynicism in my heart.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 3/8/2023 12:32:16 PM (No. 1420407)
The New York Times has never returned the Pulitzer Prize awarded Walter Duranty for his reporting from the Soviet Union and praising Stalin's communist regime. Ukraine, then part of Russia, was terrorized and suffered a KGB-caused famine. Millions died! The Time's Duranty praised communism and said that Ukrainians only missed lunch "once in a while." This vicious lie and many others was printed and believed by millions of readers. The Times still prints lies as much now as ever.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
VietVet68 3/8/2023 2:20:39 PM (No. 1420464)
I completely agree with poster #1, Cronkite was a traitor and he has blood on his hands for his "This war is lost" statement on Feb. 28, 1968 after the TET offensive. Strategically the TET offensive was a massive failure for the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong and it was driving them to the peace table until Cronkite uttered his famous words..."This war is lost". In that statement Cronkite gave aid and comfort to the enemy. At the time I was just 4 months from my deployment to Vietnam and I often wonder how many more lives were lost due to his commentary
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/8/2023 2:45:36 PM (No. 1420472)
If U.S. leftists had their way, there would be street tribunals in every major city, wherein Antifa miscreants would perform similar executions to MAGA conservatives, ostensibly for the "common good" of bringing about "societal change/cleansing"
Sound familiar yet? (Hint: Germany 1934)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 3/8/2023 4:49:11 PM (No. 1420562)
The Me Lai massacre was another miscarriage of justice. After your best friend gets killed by a bomb carrying child, it makes it easier to finish the child off before he finishes you off.
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Donald John Trump said it best. FAKE NEWS.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/8/2023 6:50:49 PM (No. 1420617)
It may have been meaningful at the start, but the Pulitzer Prize is worth only what you can afford to pay for it. That said, medical research is about the only one on the list I pay any attention to.
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