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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168186)	8/6/2001 11:26:13 PM
From: rich4eagle	Respond to of 769667

Again using logic is a fruitless exercise with gao

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168186)	8/6/2001 11:26:18 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yeah, that is one question that won't ever be answered. I think Big Mac should have been allowed to end commies right then and there. Thankfully, though, along came Ronald Reagan to end the Soviet Union. Communism isn't dead yet, though. I was looking up some Eric Hoffer stuff, and ran across this little tidbit from 1987: Their Helpers In Our Midst The Soviet Union's expensive and successful war of words has the assistance of a host of witting and unwitting helpers in our midst. On March 30, 1987, Dan Rather reported as news the Soviet charge that the Aids virus was created and spread by U.S. Army biological warfare laboratories, a charge that had been exposed as Soviet disinformation five months earlier. Even more shocking than Rather's reporting this disinformation was the reaction of CBS to AIM's demand that they correct it on the air and make an investigation to determine how it had been insinuated into their news broadcast. Tom Bettag, the executive producer of the CBS Evening News, informed us that he didn't think the matter required any investigation, and he didn't think that what they had done was shocking. That ought to tell Laurence Tisch, the president of CBS Inc., that Tom Bettag's name should have been No. 1 on the list of the 215 employees marked for firing by CBS. But that was not Mr. Tisch's reaction. Confronted with the evidence that CBS had helped the Soviet Union smear the United States with this crude lie, Mr. Tisch said at his annual shareholders' meeting: "I can assure you that they never put any- thing on that they didn't think was accurate." Asked if he believed that the U.S. Army had created and spread the Aids virus, he replied: "I didn't say that. All it said was that Moscow was spreading the story. It didn't say it was true." Reminded that the Rather broadcast had not said it was false, either, Mr. Tisch said that the viewers "have to make a lot of decisions for themselves in the news area." He gave no sign of being upset by what CBS News had done. Already 29 countries have fallen to the communists. They have South Africa, Central America and the Philippines on their list of prime targets. They are counting on us to repeat the mistakes we made in dealing with similar attacks on China, Cuba and Nicaragua and eventually deliver these countries to them. Last year, seven years after the communist takeover of Nicaragua, which was aided by our media, The New York Times finally discovered that Nicaragua was rushing down the path to totalitarian- ism. These people are definitely on the slow-learner track. Why are our "best and brightest" so ignorant? Why are they so prone to fall for the same scares carried out by the communists time after time? The answer is that the communists have a well-financed, massive operation designed to insinuate their ideas into our media, schools and churches, while the cause of freedom has no comparable operation to combat it. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars on defense against possible military threats. We spend nothing to defend against the war of words that is being waged against us right now. To be sure, we have Radio Marti, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. They beam their broadcasts abroad. We have no effective defense against the propaganda and disinformation our enemies aim at us. The distribution of the good research material produced by our own government is abysmally weak. The Congressional committees that formerly exposed those in this country that promote the cause of the enemies of freedom have all been abolished, thanks to the media, the liberals and some weak-kneed Republicans who abandoned this battlefield.