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Last fall, Joe Wilson accepted the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling from the Nation Institute (affiliated with the left-wing magazine The Nation), named after the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre.(Brief Article)
* Last fall, Joe Wilson accepted the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling from the Nation Institute (affiliated with the left-wing magazine The Nation), named after the soldier who exposed the My Lai massacre. This was around the same time that Wilson launched a website called "RestoreHonesty.com"--paid for by the Kerry campaign, for which he was an official surrogate--in which the author of The Politics of Truth tells visitors, "Some people have said I was courageous to speak truth to the power of the Bush White House. But let me tell you, what I have done doesn't hold a candle to the courage that John Kerry showed as a young man and throughout his political career." Well, hold on. It takes a lot of brass to boast about your honesty that much, and about such grave subjects, while lying as ...
- The Ron Ridenhour Awards.(In Fact ...)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Nation November 3, 2003 700+ words
...bridge between power and humanity." During the Vietnam War, Ron Ridenhour, a former soldier, revealed firsthand the truth about the...Fertel Foundation and the Nation Institute established the Ron Ridenhour Awards to honor current and future whistleblowers and truth...
- So long, Joe.(NATION)(INSIDE POLITICS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 26, 2004 700+ words
...or go to the Kerry Web site. No sign of poor old Joe. 'A lot of brass' "Last fall, Joe Wilson accepted the Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling from the Nation Institute (affiliated with the left-wing magazine The Nation), named after...
- Glen Duncan. I, Lucifer.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Tinkler, Alan March 22, 2004 700+ words
...experiment, in which subjects were asked to administer shocks to others. Only one person, Ron Ridenhour, refused to administer even the first shock. Ron Ridenhour was also the man responsible for bringing to light the My Lai massacre in Vietnam...
- Leave No Child Behind?(following Bob Kerrey's disclosures about the Vietnamese...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Hitchens, Christopher May 28, 2001 700+ words
...disclosures, looking for just one mention of just one name. Ron Ridenhour. Ron was the GI who got wind of the My Lai massacre, followed...advance notice on top of that, you don't have to rise to the Ron Ridenhour standard. But you must not disgrace it. It is, I suppose...
- Beat the devil. (Persian Gulf War) (column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Cockburn, Alexander March 4, 1991 700+ words
...remember) were opting for "soft targets," that is civilians, rather than "ducking it out" with the Sandinistas. As Ron Ridenhour once said to me apropos the lessons of My Lai, "The motherfuckers will do anything." And talking of doing anything...
- Beat the devil. (investigation of My Lai massacre) (column)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Cockburn, Alexander March 26, 1988 700+ words
...became the war crime of choice, and its ultimate exposure in the United States was due entirely to the courage of one man, Ron Ridenhour. Without Ridenhour there would have been no Army investigation, no Hersh, nothing; except perhaps the memorial in Vietnam...
- MY LAI LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON GIS.(Perspective)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 13, 1988 700+ words
...soldier convicted in the case, served three years under house arrest at Fort Benning, Ga. The man who exposed My Lai, Ron Ridenhour, was never there. Now 41, he is an investigative reporter for CityBusiness, a biweekly newspaper in New Orleans. He...
- HONORS FOR MY LAI HERO CAME MUCH TOO LATE.(EDITORIAL)(GUEST...
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) January 12, 2006 700+ words
...veterans end up in jail or homeless or addicted to drugs. Referring to the men who took part in the massacre at My Lai, Ron Ridenhour wrote in "Four Hours in My Lai": "Only a few people in those circumstances had the presence of mind and the strength...
