22-01-2018, 09:12 PM
Anyway, I hope we can bet back on track now that that matter is settled.
This film is reductive, and extremely slanted in its view of the Pentagon Papers case. And it also makes things up which are even more agenda driven.
To make Bradlee and Graham the champions of this case performs a huge disservice to the men who actually almost did go to jail over it: namely Ellsberg and Russo. At the hands of nutty Nixon and Mitchell.
And to say that Graham did not know what was going on in Vietnam I mean that is just loony. LBJ sent her there, and she championed his escalations of the war all the way to 1968!
So its just a very disturbing pastiche is you really know the facts of the case.
This film is reductive, and extremely slanted in its view of the Pentagon Papers case. And it also makes things up which are even more agenda driven.
To make Bradlee and Graham the champions of this case performs a huge disservice to the men who actually almost did go to jail over it: namely Ellsberg and Russo. At the hands of nutty Nixon and Mitchell.
And to say that Graham did not know what was going on in Vietnam I mean that is just loony. LBJ sent her there, and she championed his escalations of the war all the way to 1968!
So its just a very disturbing pastiche is you really know the facts of the case.