-By Warner Todd Huston
Liberals went wild on Monday rehashing a decades-old lie about how President Lyndon Johnson was seen in a 1968 White House photo being “overcome” by the loss of life during the Vietnam War.
The image went viral on Monday as historically illiterate liberals began posting the photo they claimed showed LBJ being overcome with emotion about the loss of American lives. Naturally, it went viral because liberals were using it to claim President Donald Trump is heartless in the face of the death of Americans who have died from the coronavirus.
A typical tweet juxtaposing the falsified photo of LBJ with the supposed heartlessness of Trump was posted by lying liberal Ben LaBolt who moaned that today we don’t have a president with “empathy” like that wonderful LBJ.
I don’t even know where to begin on this one. pic.twitter.com/PbF8WgDGTa
— Peter A. Shulman 📚 (@pashulman) April 20, 2020
The claim that the photo depicts well-known racist, and foul-mouthed ass Lyndon Baines Johnson as crumbling in the face of the toll of American deaths during the Vietnam war has been around for as long as that photo has been in the public eye.
But that characterization is a lie. That photo simply was not snapped when LBJ was hearing about the death toll in Vietnam.
The truth of that moment in time ends up having nothing at all to do with Vietnam, nor does it factually depict LBJ “breaking down,” having “empathy,” or being “overcome” about anything.
In truth, what LBJ was doing in that photo was lowering his head in concentration so he could more clearly hear a tape recording he was trying to listen to.
Indeed, the other photos taken in line with the more famous snapshot clearly show LBJ adjusting his head numerous times as he strains to understand what is being said on the speaker in front of him.
The description o the photo in the White House archive reads: “The President had a tape from Chuck which had been hard to hear so Recording put it on a new tape – but it was still pretty difficult to hear it.”
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
Here are some of the other photos taken on that roll of film during the “tape listening” incident:
The other photos in the series could not be more clear. LBJ is straining to listen to a tape recording. He is not reacting to news about Vietnam. He is not “showing empathy,” or being “overcome” by anything.
So, as you can see, liberals are lying again, using their typical Soviet-styled historical revisionism to lie to America to push their agenda.
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