NBC Skips ‘Communist’ Label for Vietnam; Touts Hiroshima as ‘Painful Chapter of American History’

Curtis Houck | May 23, 2016
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On Monday morning, NBC’s Today and correspondent Ron Allen omitted any mention to viewers that Vietnam remains a authoritarian, communist regime as it welcomed President Barack Obama on the first stop of his week-long Asia tour. 

In addition, Allen teased the President’s visit to Japan and specifically Hiroshima as one that will remind us all of “[a]nother painful chapter of American history” as the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on the city in an effort to end World War II in 1945.

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