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Leonard Magruder - Founder/President
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MAGRUDER TO DAN RATHER (CBS): “WE’RE TURNING OFF CBS NEWS. SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH, AND ALL OTHERS, WILL BE HEARD. A BIG STORY, YOU CAN’T HIDE IT. VIETNAM VETS OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT KERRY AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.”
Turn Off CBS News
by Leonard Magruder
May 16, 2004
We are giving away a nineteen-page monograph, with photos, to PROTEST the attack on Vietnam veterans by CBS Evening News on Tuesday, May 5, 2004 (“Republican plot,” “handpicked by Nixon”). IN ADDITION WE URGE YOU TO JOIN US IN TURNING OFF CBS EVENING NEWS.
Compiled not long ago as a history of our battles with other CBS “dirty tricks” from 1971 to 1986, the monograph is an account involving the media, the university, and the Vietnam veteran during the first years of our organization Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform, at that time called University Liberation. To receive a free copy of this monograph, please send your name and mailing address to Magruder44@aol.com, or you can click here and read the monograph online.
MONOGRAPH COVER:
THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO PROTEST: “Breeding grounds of subversion.” (United Press International)
THE RESIGNATION AT SCCC: “Of national importance, but because of their liberal bias no news organization in New York would touch such a story.” (Newscaster Bill Jorgenson, NBC-TV)
UNIVERSITY LIBERATION TAKES THE WAR TO THE WHITE HOUSE: “We protest the news blackout by the liberal press, particularly Newsday.(petition - 400 students)
THE MAGRUDER EXPOSÉ OF THE UNCOUNTED ENEMY - CBS: “You have done an exhaustive bit of research and I congratulate you.” (letter, General William Westmoreland)
THE CALL FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MEDIA: “Professor Magruder’s project is an extremely important one and I support his efforts 100%” (General William Westmoreland - National Vietnam Veterans Review)
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST PBS: “All the best with your latest project.” (Pat Buchanan - The White House)
THE STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY VIETNAM SYMPOSIUM: “Magruder will help design the program and invite some of the leading figures of the Vietnam period to speak.” (The Lawrence Journal-World)
TAKING THE WAR TO CBS : Magruder to vets: “Turn off CBS Evening News.”
THE TAKING OF GRANT PARK, CHICAGO: “We proclaim this soil retaken from the war protestors by those who served.” (Magruder speech to Vietnam vets)
EXCERPTS FROM THE MONOGRAPH:
“It was the beginning of a war between Magruder and CBS that ended only after Magruder had forced PBS to show a film that documented how CBS had lied about Vietnam, exposed the lies in the CBS film, The Uncounted Enemy, challenged Dan Rather to a debate, which he refused, at the Vietnam Symposium, and issued a call to all Vietnam vets to turn off CBS Evening News.”
On May 10,1981, at the nation’s first rally on any campus to honor the Vietnam veteran, Mr. Magruder publicly resigned his position as professor. In a speech to some 400 or more students and Vietnam veterans he said he was doing this to ‘protest the damage done to the Vietnam veteran by the erroneous views of liberals in the universities and media in the 60’s. Although a reporter from Newsday was present, the newspaper did not publish the event.’ (Compass, college newspaper, May 11, 1981)
“The Vietnam Veterans Leadership of Houston, in a booklet it produced to challenge these lies, said, ‘The misinformation currently disseminated about Vietnam ultimately reflects upon the motives, convictions, values, and integrity of those who participated in the war at the behest of their country....it is imperative that the record be set straight.’
“300 of his students studied the Vietnam War and voted (after they got their grades) that the campus ‘peace’ movement had been wrong. Puzzled as to why the students of this generation could see the truth so clearly, while those of the 60’s could not, the students concluded that faculties, to serve their own largely leftist and Marxist ideologies, had misinformed their students who, in turn, used the misinformation to serve their own purposes, primarily to avoid the draft.”
“On March 28, 1982, 100 copies of a 21-page single-spaced article documenting that the CBS film, The Uncounted Enemy, had been one long series of lies from beginning to end, were hand delivered by Mr. Magruder and volunteer students throughout the the upper echelons of the New York media. On May 29, 1982, two months after the cover-up of the Magruder exposé the story broke with a cover article in TV Guide. ‘The enemy has been badly hurt...he committed a total of about 84,000 men. He lost 40,000 killed.’ (Report of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler on the Tet Offensive. Feb. 27, 1968.) The allies lost 927. This is the disaster for the North Vietnamese that CBS called a ‘stalemate.’
“There was during this time, thanks to the media, no logical connection between what was happening in Vietnam and the response on the homefront. The response to victory was despair, what the media called the ‘psychogical victory,’ which they themselves created. And to their everlasting shame some sections of American society responded to any hint of success by American forces at Tet with panic, fearing their own country would win the war.”
“The true reason for the change in policy after the Tet Offensive is seen in what Johnson now told Westmoreland, that to pursue the war more aggressively was politically unfeasible, that he had ‘no choice but to try to calm the protestors lest they precipitate an abject American pull-out.’ (America in Vietnam, Lewy, 1978)”
“A large number of organizations went on public record with Congress as supporting Mr. Magruder’s request for an investigation of the media, including chapters of Vietnam Veterans of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion, and Young Americans for Freedom, also, The National Vietnam Veterans Review, the 20,000 members of the Northern Virginia Veteran Leadership program, and General Westmoreland.”
“By spending $12,000 of his own money to show the film (Television’s Vietnam: The Impact of Media) on various television stations around the country, Mr. Magruder exposed the issue, creating a landslide defection on the part of station managers who had been told not to show the film. In addition, he wrote a letter to all 314 PBS station managers.”
“The quantitative data in this and other studies show that the networks consistently misinformed and even lied to the American people as to the mission and progress of the Vietnam War. Content analysis of news reporting by CBS, NBC, and ABC, over an extended period in 1968 showed a steady drumbeat of anti-government voices, unified in an assault on the war. Said Senator Margaret Chase Smith, ‘The press has become more sympathetic to the enemy that to our own national interest.’ (Congressional Record, June 16, 1971).”
“It was the most compreshensive, in-depth symposium on both the war in Vietnam and the ‘war on the home front’ ever put together, unique because of the participation of some 800 Vietnam veterans. There were 60 speakers from all over the country representing the military, the media, the protestors, the government, and academia.”
“’Because these findings of the Symposium were so at odds with the image of the war being perpetuated on campus and in the media, the national media refused to report them to the American people. It was the ultimate betrayal by those who did not serve, of those who did,’ said Mr. Magruder.”
“There is therefore, fear abroad in the land that in another time of crisis, the university and the media, unless reformed, may again allow themselves to be manipulated by enemy propaganda or exploit the crisis to further ideological interests hostile to the national interest.”
“There is no question but what the significant shift in student perception of the war and its veterans, so opposite to earlier views on campus and what they had been taught in high school, is threatening to many on campus who continue to think of themselves as the ‘moral heroes’ of Vietnam for their dissent.”
“The ‘peace’ movement, the students decided, was never really concerned for peace. Although it cloaked itself in an aura of great moral purpose, it in fact gave aid and comfort to the enemy, marched under the flag of the Viet Cong, allowed Hanoi to dictate its agenda and turned its back on the American soldier.”
COMMENTARY:
Kerry now goes around the country presenting himself as a “moral hero” for his dissent during the war years. But that won’t do. Like those in the “peace” movement, who “cloaked themselves in an aura of great moral purpose,” the truth is Kerry also “gave aid and comfort to the enemy”(-General George Patton Jr.), marched under the flag of the Viet Cong, consorted with Hanoi in Paris, and certainly turned his back on the American soldier when he charged them with endless atrocities. But the thing to be really worried about is what we documented in our last article and summarized by saying, “There are simply too many signs of sympathy for the left in this history.” Jay Nordlinger in an article in the latest National Review found the same signs. In “Back in Sandinista Days,” he tells of Kerry’s infamous trip to Nicaragua in April 1985, to meet with Communist Commandante Ortega, arranged by the Institute for Policy Studies, a well-known hard-left group. Congress was all set to vote $14 million to help the anti-Communist rebels, the Contras. Said Kerry at the time, “We should not subvert our values by funding terrorism.” In other words, he saw the Nicaraguan freedom fighters as “terrorists.” Wrote Nordlinger, “Kerry apparently never recognized the Nicaragua struggle as geopolitical.” That is, Kerry has trouble distinguishing between tyranny and democracy. He thinks all systems are somehow equal, and that “all one needs is love.” He is a hippie at heart, oblivious to evil and ignorant as to how to deal with it. As William Buckley said in his 1971 commencement speech at West Point about Kerry’s statement to Congress, “Without organized force and the threat of the use of force under certain circumstances, there is no freedom, anywhere...it is the indictment of a very ignorant young man.” “Naive” is another word that appears very often in describing Kerry.
After democracy won in Nicaragua with the free election of Violeta Chamorro in 1990, asked if the United States did the right thing by funding the Contras, Kerry answered, “I don’t happen to believe that.” A poor loser. Years later he would spend time trying to show that the Contras were drug-runners and was particularly interested in linking Vice President Bush Sr. to this crime. One GOP aide from the period described Kerry’s people as “drooling fanaticsm” much more rabid than fellow liberals Dodd or Kennedy, and promoting the most bizarre conspiracy theories around. Said the GOP aide, “This was a truly fruity network of goofballs and semi-subversive people. They weren’t liberals, they had a shockingly hostile attitude towards the United States - our military, our intelligence community, our policies.”
It all fits together. You can see the beginnings of it in his ’71 testimony, and the creepy, anarchistic people he hung out with in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, many of them fake veterans. Another Latin-American specialist said, “Kerry allied himself with all the leftist-chic causes going and he was virulently anti-Reagan.” A disdain for American power has always been part and parcel of his attitude. He called Grenada, “A bully’s show of force against a weak Third World nation.” Just what we need, a Commander-in-Chief who disdains American power.
In our last article, Media Betrayal of Vets (
As Dr. Hopewell, a fellow psychologist, said in our last article in which we both agreed Kerry would be very dangerous on national security, “John Kerry’s actions after returning to the United States did not simply constitute a ‘courageous dissenting opinion,’ as he and others would have us believe, but was a distortion of facts and failure of judgement...this type of failure of judgement would be catastrophic in dealing with our current crises.”
Kerry thought the Viet Cong were “freedom fighters.” He thought the Sandinistas were “freedom fighters.” If he treats the terrorists as if they are “freedom fighters,” they will eat him, and us, alive. Dan Rather and company must stop covering for Kerry and start asking him the same tough questions they ask Bush. We urge all Vietnam vets to turn off CBS Evening News until he does. We did this once before, over the Symposium.
The nation needs to see Kerry as he really is, a typically befuddled leftist, not as the “hero of Vietnam dissent” the media is trying to project. We cannot survive another betrayal by the media as happened in the case of Vietnam.
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