At the White House on Thursday, President Obama let his radical leftist
slip show when he accepted a 67 year-old letter from from Ho Chi Minh
to U.S. President Harry Truman given to him by Vietnam's current
president Truong Tan Sang
and spoke of the letter's contents: "...
we
discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S.
Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas
Jefferson. Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperation
with the United States. And President Sang indicated that even if it's
67 years later, it's good that we're still making progress.""
Darlene Superville at the Associated Press
relayed what Obama said
in the final paragraphs of her report on Sunday without a hint of
historical knowledge about mass murderer Ho Chi Minh's motivations for
writing that letter. Perhaps
she's too young
and was so consistently indoctrinated by her teachers about how the
U.S. was the "imperialist" and Ho Chi Minh was the "freedom fighter" to
know any better. Based on
his bio,
New York Times reporter Mark Landler doesn't appear to be able to claim
that kind of historical ignorance, but he has definitely retained a
capacity to make excuses for repressive, murderous regimes. Excerpts
from his coverage and a correct rendering of the history follow the jump (bolds are mine throughout this post):
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