Newsweek - "Bush and Kerry in Vietnam"

I just got in the mail my copy of this week's Newsweek magazine. On the cover is John Kerry and George W. Bush in their military uniforms during the Vietam "conflict". I was so interested in the article, that for the first time in 6 months of this periodical subscription, I actually read one of the articles in the magazine, rather than just browsing through it. I assume that most people, and I like to think that I am a person that falls within the category of "most people", think of Newsweek as a news magazine. That's the reason I subscribed to it. I am not much of a newspaper person as I don't often get the time to sit and read a newspaper. So I subscribe to get the news "weekly" in one publication rather than daily. Sounds logical... at least it helped me to justify my spending the money for the publication. Well after reading the article I came to the only conclusion I could... This magazine has very little to do with news, and almost all to do with opinion and editorial. The article had sooooo much spin in it; I couldn't tell whether I was reading truth, fiction or fantasy. The article was less a "comparison" of two people running for President than it was for glorifying one person, while lampooning (or is that harpooning) the other. I will let you read the article for yourself and you decide which side of the political aisle the author is on. Maybe I am the naive one thinking that this magazine calling itself "Newsweek" was actually a news magazine, rather than a news commentary from one side. I mean usually when I am reading a political magazine, I usually know it... I often buy them for that specific reason... Sometimes I just want the facts and nothing but the facts, so that I can make up my own mind... But I, like most people, are considered too dumb to figure things out for ourselves, so we must be spoon fed this mush. Later Lou

Hi! This is my first rambling, which has absolutely no content at all! :0( I am just setting this new blog up, and we shall see what the future holds! Later Lou