Author Rich Botkin / Doug Ibendahl - The Tami Jackson Show
b"Another Tuesday night and you know that means great guests on the Tami Jackson Show*!\\n\\nIn the first 1/2 hour I will be speaking with Rich Botkin.\\n\\nRich, a retired Marine officer, served four years active, eleven in the reserves. Botkin is the author of Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph, a magnificent work of military history centered on the Easter offensive and the American and Vietnamese Marines.\\n\\nThe tome highlights many\\xa0brave men, including: Col G.H. \\u201cGerry\\u201d Turley, Col John Ripley (\\u201cSkipper\\u201d), and Maj Le Ba Binh, who fought in a war demonized and undermined by the Mainstream Media and The Left.\\n\\nRide the Thunder tells the story of American Marines, Covan,\\xa0and the TQLC, a story not well-known by so many Americans.\\n\\nRide the Thunder is the result of 5 years of writing and 4 trips to Vietnam, and was made into a motion picture in March of 2015.\\n\\n\\n\\nRich and I will talk about his new article,\\xa0Will Ken Burns' Twisted Version of Vietnam War Endure?\\n\\nThe article begins:\\n\\n\\u201cNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.\\u201d Richard Nixon\\u2019s 1994 post-war observation remains as prescient as ever. With the release of the Ken Burns/Lynne Novick epic 10-part\\xa0PBS documentary on the war\\xa0last month, it is safe to say that the misreporting and misremembering have only been compounded and exacerbated.\\n\\nSadly, the American taxpayers have funded this new Burns/Novick series which only continues The Left's narrative of the Vietnam War.\\n\\nListen as Rich and I debunk what Ken Burns and Lynne Novick assert.\\n\\nBotkin writes in his article:\\n\\nIf nothing else, the release of the Burns/Novick work has ignited a firestorm of passionate response from those men who honorably served. And it was their stories, including those of our South Vietnamese allies, that went largely untold in 18 long, tortuous hours.\\n\\nOur hope is that perhaps a backlash will occur, that thousands will obtain copies of the Ride the Thunder movie, now available in DVD and Blu-Ray, and that the light of truth will reveal the Burns series to be a terrible misrepresentation of the war and those who honorably served.\\n\\n*******************\\n\\nIn the second 1/2 hour I will be talking to\\xa0Doug Ibendahl.\\n\\nDoug Ibendahl is a Chicago attorney and former General Counsel of the Illinois Republican Party. In 2000, he was named Illinois Coordinator for Young Professionals for George W. Bush (YP4W), a national volunteer coalition of the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Doug also served on the Bush-Cheney legal team in Florida during the 2000 Presidential recount.\\n\\nBefore starting his own law and consulting practice, Doug was an attorney with one of the world\\u2019s largest law firms, Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago. His practice concentrated in the firm\\u2019s corporate, finance and government groups, and included Fortune 500 corporate clients, as well as governmental entities.\\n\\nIbendahl\\xa0is the Co-Founder of Republican Young Professionals (RYP), an all volunteer grassroots organization dedicated to introducing younger people to political and community involvement. He has worked on numerous political and legislative campaigns.\\n\\nDoug is a widely read political commentator and Editor-in-Chief of RepublicanNewsWatch.com. From 2008 to 2010 he also co-hosted a popular Sunday morning political talk show on AM 560-WIND.\\n\\nDoug and I will be talking about President Donald Trump, his successes, his adversaries, and the controversy over Trump's condolence call to\\xa0Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of the soldiers killed in the ambush in Niger.\\n\\nIbendahl was an early Trump supporter and predicted he would win. Now we'll hear how he thinks the president is measuring up.\\n\\nFollow Follow Doug Ibendahl on Twitter\\xa0at\\xa0@DougIbendahl,\\xa0and me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show using hashtag #tjrs.\\n\\n*Sponsored by Rentacomputer, your premier\\xa0source for Sound System rentals , by ROBAR\\xae Guns, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop\\xa0located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com, and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war."