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Offline Machiavelli

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The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie
« on: January 30, 2018, 09:10:01 pm »
Arthur Herman
National Review
January 30, 2017

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Josef Goebbels called it the Big Lie, the deliberate misrepresentation of facts and reality in order to achieve a political objective. It’s been part and parcel of the New World Disorder we’ve lived under for the past century, ever since Vladimir Lenin first used a Big Lie to disguise his seizure of power from Russia’s post-czar provisional government in November 1917, by telling the Russian people he was preventing a coup not perpetrating one.

America’s first major encounter with the Big Lie, with all its disastrous consequences, started 50 years ago today, when the American mainstream media — CBS and the other networks, plus the New York Times and the Washington Post — decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat, rather than what it actually was: a major American victory.

We’ve all lived in the disorder and chaos that campaign set in motion ever since.

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Re: The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2018, 10:00:48 pm »
Yes, we are run by traitors often.

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Re: The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2018, 10:26:48 pm »
The big lie was LBJ's one about the "Gulf of Tonkin"

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Re: The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2018, 10:52:35 pm »
I came back to the states at the end of November 1967 and saw Walter and his protégé's lie through their teeth about where I had just left.  Never trusted the media for a second after that.
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Re: The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2018, 12:00:45 am »
Done deal.

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