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Two obituaries – one complimentary and one not so
Take a look at this obituary for Pham Xuan An, a reporter for Time magazine who was also a spy for the Viet Cong. He passed away on Sept. 20th at the age of 79.
Now, take a look at this obituary for former Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, who died in a car accident on Monday at the age of 68.
Written by the same author, one is essentially a puff piece, while the other obituary is written in a tone no self-respecting American would want to see used in their obituary. It won’t be hard to figure out which is which.
Hat tip: Amy Ridenour at Newsbusters.
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Proof again that the media is a hinderence. They would sell out there own mother if they could grab a headline.
More than a hinderance, the media is a blindly bigoted self-righteous leftwing tool.
The media is obviously the fifth column that intends to ruin this country. Why else would they turn a spy who was responsible for deaths of American soldiers into a hero. But they just don’t get it. If the enemy, be it communists of the sixties and seventies or Islamists of today, gains control of this country, the first people that will feel the pain is the liberals and the media. Can you image the main stream media being allowed to exist under Sharia law?
Typical! I wish this was an oddity in the media, but it ain’t!
One of Chenoweth’s “extreme” positions:
Civil rights laws protect everyone except white Anglo-Saxon males, she said in 1994.
Another woman took the exact position: The chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. (Wonder how her obit will read?)
Remember: Conservatives are “extreme.” Liberals are “passionate.”
I sent her an email:
Yeah, I’ve got nothing to do today
I was going to call her a radical, but I didn’t want to sound offensive.
What media bias?!?!?!?!?!
She replied!
(link mine)
I’m unsure what the Johnny Appleseed story has to do with anything, but she appeared quite cordial, despite my suggesting that fair and balanced news is ‘the law’. I still don’t appreciate her praising the ‘Viet-Cong spy’ and deriding the ‘arch-conservative’, but it’s nice to know that not all liberals are shallow and pedantic (or else she would have called me on my ‘law’ comment). I hope she learns to paint a person’s life with a less political brush in the future.
Unbelievable, as was her response to you, Kevin.
Some of the VC spy’s “accompishments” no doubt led to American soldiers being killed.
Kevin did you notice who wrote the NYT’s Johnny Apple tribute?
By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 4, 2006; 4:46 PM
Way to go, “Mr. … umm, Kevin”
Forest, I noticed it was not her, if that’s what you mean. Which is why I don’t understand why she commented about it. If there is more significance to it than that, it went over my head.
Interesting that of the three obits listed, the two which were written as a celebration of career and life in tone were for – yup – two journalists.
The third obituary, whose tone was obviously disdainful of the deceased, was written about a conservative Republican.
No surprises there, eh?
And the revelation that Time Magazine actively employs communist spies and enemies of the United States is no surprise, either.
Kevin, I applaud your effort to contact the writer of the two obituaries ST listed. You have far more self control than I in this case. Had I gotten her sneering (”Mr. …um, Kevin”???) and condescending reply back, I afraid I would have launched into a full scale email battle with her. She wrote that the Post’s obituaries of public people strive to “reflect their public life, accomplishments and warts included.” Hey lady, how ’bout this WART on Mr. Pham Xuan An – He was a COMMUNIST SPY dedicated to providing information to our enemy to help them KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS. If you ask me, that’s like having a golf ball sized mole in the middle of his forehead!! But the way Ms. …um, Sullivan wrote it, he was practically doing the United States a service. It certainly wasn’t presented as a ‘wart’.
Having a brother who is a top editor with the Gannett newspaper empire, I know the attitudes of these people, and like nothing better to engage their snotty little noses with some full-on conservative head butting. Trust me, they don’t take to that very well, as they HATE to have their liberal opinions challenged by ‘common’ folk like us. Most of them are too used to having a one-way dialogue, i.e. ‘we write – you read’, and their liberal spoutings are reinforced by the back-slapping from their newspaper bretheren.
All true Mahwah, but when you speak to a journalist who believes communist spies deserve better obituaries than Republicans, it’s wise not to hold out much hope of convincing them otherwise
I settled for the triumph of not being called a nazi in the first email reply.
Yeah, I understand your point, Kevin, and I’m sure you’re right. I just can’t resist slapping them around a bit.