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Yet the Throne will still belong to Rather than Dan.
Yet the Throne will still belong to Rather than Dan.
What? Dan Rather is an excellent journalist and an honorable man.
Yet the Throne will still belong to Rather than Dan.
What? Dan Rather is an excellent journalist and an honorable man.
I once would have believed that. Two big issues come to mind, His scheme on President Bush, and this..... Stolen Valor
Where to begin? Well, for openers, Burkett filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the military records of the famously liberal Dan Rather, then anchor of the CBS Evening News. Recalling how Rather spent much of the 1990 campaign beating up on Dan Quayle for avoiding the Vietnam draft as a member of the National Guard, Burkett gleefully discovered that Rather himself hid out from the Korean War as a member of the Reserves. When he graduated from college in 1954, after the war was safely over, Rather joined the Marines and was discharged as medically unfit after four months. Of course, this didn't stop Rather from proudly identifying himself as an ex-Marine!
This by way of preface to a CBS documentary called "The Wall Within," in which Rather and his camera team prowled the Washington woods in search of "trip-wire vets" who were so crazed by their Vietnam experience that they could not safely live in society. Guess what? They were bogus. Of the CBS poster boys for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD), most never served in Vietnam, and those who did were in non-combat roles. Some of them didn't even live in the woods. (It's not just CBS, of course. David Brinkley, Linda Ellerbee, and other television notables also take their lumps.)
Burkett: Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History
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ContentsStolen Valor is divided into 4 parts and an appendix.
Part I (The Image) begins with a chapter about B.G. Burkett's time in the Army. The next four chapters detail the author's argument that the image of the Vietnam Veteran was tarnished by a combination of media coverage, Veteran imposters, US citizens' anger against the draft, and a perception of the veteran as a victim.[1]
Part II (The Trauma of War) looks into the diagnoses of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Veterans and how it is treated by the Veteran's Administration and the rise of war atrocity accusations against Vietnam Veterans. It also does further analysis of the effects of people, the author believes to be Vietnam War Veteran imposters, on the image of the Vietnam Veteran, specifically, the lack of investigation by the news media into the background of these possible veterans. This part delves into what the author believes to be the mislabeling of one of the causes of homelessness, the Vietnam War.[2]
Part III (Stolen Valor) describes what the author believes to be a widespread wearing of Vietnam War specific medals, ribbons and badges by people who did not earn them. The author, using the Freedom of Information Act, was able to retrieve records of individuals who claimed they served in Vietnam during the War and he used this method to denounce people who didn't have records to support their service, badges, ribbons and medals. In this section, the author also demonstrates his disbelief in the idea that minorities participated in rates higher than their percentage of the populations. [3]
In Part IV (Victims and Heroes) , the author discusses what he believes to be a myth about the effects of Agent Orange, profiling pilots from the Vietnam War who flew Agent Orange delivery missions in Vietnam and who have not had an increase in health effects since then. In this section, the author also denounces the Vietnam Veterans of America, calling them "Vietnam Victims of America."[4]
The Appendices provide lists of Medal of Honor awardees, Distinguished Service Cross awardees, Navy Cross awardees, Air Force Cross awardees and U.S. military POWs who survived their captivity.
[edit] ReceptionMackubin Thomas Owens, an adjunct fellow at the Ashbrook Center, a professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and a Marine infantry veteran of Vietnam, praised Burkett as finding impostors by doing "something that any reporter worth his or her salt could have done: he used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to check the actual records of the 'image makers' used by reporters to flesh out their stories on homelessness, Agent Orange, suicide, drug abuse, criminality, or alcoholism." [5]
Vietnam veteran Dave Curry, in a review published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, accused Burkett and his coauthor of displaying political partisanship, making "errors in research methodology," making misleading statements about Winter Soldier Investigation participants, and denigrating the experiences and motives of veterans who subsequently opposed the war.[6]
Stolen Valor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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At best your criticism is a mixed bag. Still, much fraud and misinformation was uncovered. There is no getting around that.
The piece on Dan Rather exposed him for the hack he was.
The Swifties covered Kerry and his games about refusing to sign Standard form 180. Kerry put Kerry to shame, not the Swifties. He cost himself the election over it. Pathological Lie's generally have that effect.
ContentsStolen Valor is divided into 4 parts and an appendix.
Part I (The Image) begins with a chapter about B.G. Burkett's time in the Army. The next four chapters detail the author's argument that the image of the Vietnam Veteran was tarnished by a combination of media coverage, Veteran imposters, US citizens' anger against the draft, and a perception of the veteran as a victim.[1]
Part II (The Trauma of War) looks into the diagnoses of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Vietnam Veterans and how it is treated by the Veteran's Administration and the rise of war atrocity accusations against Vietnam Veterans. It also does further analysis of the effects of people, the author believes to be Vietnam War Veteran imposters, on the image of the Vietnam Veteran, specifically, the lack of investigation by the news media into the background of these possible veterans. This part delves into what the author believes to be the mislabeling of one of the causes of homelessness, the Vietnam War.[2]
Part III (Stolen Valor) describes what the author believes to be a widespread wearing of Vietnam War specific medals, ribbons and badges by people who did not earn them. The author, using the Freedom of Information Act, was able to retrieve records of individuals who claimed they served in Vietnam during the War and he used this method to denounce people who didn't have records to support their service, badges, ribbons and medals. In this section, the author also demonstrates his disbelief in the idea that minorities participated in rates higher than their percentage of the populations. [3]
In Part IV (Victims and Heroes) , the author discusses what he believes to be a myth about the effects of Agent Orange, profiling pilots from the Vietnam War who flew Agent Orange delivery missions in Vietnam and who have not had an increase in health effects since then. In this section, the author also denounces the Vietnam Veterans of America, calling them "Vietnam Victims of America."[4]
The Appendices provide lists of Medal of Honor awardees, Distinguished Service Cross awardees, Navy Cross awardees, Air Force Cross awardees and U.S. military POWs who survived their captivity.
[edit] ReceptionMackubin Thomas Owens, an adjunct fellow at the Ashbrook Center, a professor of strategy and force planning at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and a Marine infantry veteran of Vietnam, praised Burkett as finding impostors by doing "something that any reporter worth his or her salt could have done: he used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to check the actual records of the 'image makers' used by reporters to flesh out their stories on homelessness, Agent Orange, suicide, drug abuse, criminality, or alcoholism." [5]
Vietnam veteran Dave Curry, in a review published by Vietnam Veterans Against the War, accused Burkett and his coauthor of displaying political partisanship, making "errors in research methodology," making misleading statements about Winter Soldier Investigation participants, and denigrating the experiences and motives of veterans who subsequently opposed the war.[6]
Stolen Valor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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At best your criticism is a mixed bag. Still, much fraud and misinformation was uncovered. There is no getting around that.
The piece on Dan Rather exposed him for the hack he was.
The Swifties covered Kerry and his games about refusing to sign Standard form 180. Kerry put Kerry to shame, not the Swifties. He cost himself the election over it. Pathological Lie's generally have that effect.
The piece on Dan Rather was from a fucking HACK. There is no bigger pathological liar than George W. Bush. It is truly sad that a guy who served in combat is slandered and a pampered little millionaire's brat who murdered a hundred thousand innocent human beings is elected. We live in a nation where ignorance is reaching an epidemic level.
Yet the Throne will still belong to Rather than Dan.
What? Dan Rather is an excellent journalist and an honorable man.
My view both will get bad reviews by future generations of historians for their baised news coverage.
My view both will get bad reviews by future generations of historians for their baised news coverage.