In perhaps the most outrageous display of liberal bias by a major news outlet since CBS's Harvest of Shame, today's LA Times tries to convince us that the VC were more impressed by the guys they were actually fighting than the ones who were courageously patrolling the skies over Texas.

The 50-foot Swift boats were easy targets as they plowed through the waterways of the Mekong Delta in packs of three or four, making big waves and thunderous noise when approaching.

Former Viet Cong soldier Duong Hoang Sinh remembers them well — the one time he tangled with three Swift boats, the Americans killed all the insurgents in his unit except two.

"It was very fierce fighting," said Sinh, 52, who lost his left eye during the war and still has shrapnel in his arm. "Each side tried to eliminate the other."

Sinh and John F. Kerry, the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, were fighting along the Dong Cung canal about the same time 35 years ago in early 1969, experiencing the intensity of war along these muddy waters, but from opposite sides.

Although Sinh had never heard of Kerry, he had a strong opinion about the debate surrounding the candidate's Vietnam War record as a U.S. Navy Swift boat commander: Kerry must have had guts to troll the Mekong Delta's spider web of rivers and narrow canals knowing that Viet Cong like himself were waiting to pick him off.

Shameful stuff. Just shameful. Next thing you know, the moral pygmies at the Times will be trying to tell us that the Bush tax cuts mainly benefited the wealthiest people in the country, while the rest of us got the shaft. Or that the Iraq occupation has been handled with all the brainy sophistication that one would normally associate with an episode of Are You Hot. Or even that George Bush is about to become the first president since Herbert Hoover to actually lose jobs on his watch.

Really, now. Just how dumb does the liberal media think we are?

POSTSCRIPT/RELATED: All kidding aside, don't you just love the latest right-wing meme: How dare you continue to talk about our disgusting slander of a genuine American war hero when we've gotten all the political mileage we can out of the smear?

Well, sorry, folks. As people in my part of the country like to say: Forget, hell! You made this filthy bed, and now I guess you're just going to have to find a way to get comfortable in it.

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