[antimedia] antimedia: One of the greatest benefits of the blogosphere....

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One of the greatest benefits of the blogosphere....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1167544309.shtml


   ....is [1]stories like this one from Beldar.
   In the aftermath of America's betrayal and abandonment of South
   Vietnam, 130,000 South Vietnamese refugees were airlifted to the US.
   All across the nation, liberal leaders resisted the influx and
   insisted that they should be been left in Vietnam. One man took up
   their cause.

     The refugees were extremely fortunate. Our biggest supporter,
     outside of Julia Taft, was the president of the United States. Even
     though he had described the Vietnam conflict as "a war that is
     finished as far as America is concerned," Ford's attention was now
     focused on the refugees. In May 1975 he visited the camps, and soon
     after refugees began leaving to start new lives across America. The
     government wanted to disperse the refugees to spread the cost among
     many states and communities. By Christmas of that year, all refugee
     camps had been closed, and the refugees were resettled in every
     state.
     I am not aware of any other politicians, antiwar protesters,
     esteemed journalists or celebrities visiting Fort Chaffee, Ark.,
     where my family was temporarily housed for two months. But Gerald
     Ford did. (Emphasis in the original.)

   I did not know that Gerald Ford did that. I also didn't know that the
   wonderful liberals, those paragons of support for the downtrodden and
   underprivileged, sought to abandon the Vietnamese refugees and
   resisted helping them at every turn.
   So all this time, nothing has changed. Liberals are just as
   hypocritical now as they've always been.

References

   1. http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2006/12/best_of_the_for.html