{"article":{"id":1922,"heading":"Slanders Against Protesters Nothing New","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","created":"2000-08-17 23:34:05","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>There&rsquo;s nothing in the demonization of protesters.  The Spitting Image takes on and refutes the most enduring slander against the anti-war movement of the 1960s--the myth that protesters spat on returning veterans, a myth that the author shows emerged only after the fact, as part of the endgame to disappear the very real, very powerful, very embarrassing Vietnam veterans' anti-war movement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"rad@gte.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"There\u2019s nothing in the demonization of protesters.  This book takes on and refutes the most enduring slander against the anti-war movement of the 1960s--the myth that protesters spit on returning veterans, a myth that the author shows emerged only after the fact, as part of the endgame to disappear the very real, very powerful, very embarrassing Vietnam veteran anti-war movement.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/spittingmyth.htm","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1922.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}