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Related: About this forum‘Dick Cavett’s Vietnam’: TV Review
PBS stimulating short doc revisits the Vietnam War through the perspective of raconteur extraordinaire Dick Cavett.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/dick-cavett-s-vietnam-tv-791878
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‘Dick Cavett’s Vietnam’: TV Review (Original Post)
elleng
Apr 2015
OP
shit. GW @ was a bloody repete. started with reagan + the hostages. cripes the media is stupid.
pansypoo53219
Apr 2015
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. I watched the documentary.
And would give it a good review (as one old enough to have lived through it all)
elleng
(130,732 posts)2. Ditto
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. It was good, as was his show 40 something years ago.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)4. Watching it now. Sickeningly wonderful.
Wayne Morse: We have been the outlaw in Southeast Asia.
It will never happen again
until the next time.
Highly recommended.
delrem
(9,688 posts)5. Over a million Vietnamese killed. For nothing.
And it still goes on, a different venue, different words to describe "the enemy", and nobody has learned a thing.
pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)6. shit. GW @ was a bloody repete. started with reagan + the hostages. cripes the media is stupid.
where is our dick cavett?
elleng
(130,732 posts)7. Very sorry to say it wouldn't matter, pansypoo;
'We' haven't learned our lesson. Rachel may be the closest we have to a Dick Cavett, and I'm glad to hear from her on the subject.