Subject: Viet Weekly

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

  What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes

  July 18, 2007

• Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

  'Biggest racist ever' back on Anaheim school board: Last week, the Anaheim Union School District appointed Harald Martin to an open board seat created by the death of Denise Mansfield-Reinking. I managed to obtain the board's top-secret qualifications checklist for Martin: Racist, check. Uneducated cop mentality, check. Nincompoop, check. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Of course, I'm kidding. Nothing was top secret. We all know about Martin's history during his previous board service.

  July 22, 2007

• Stay 'Tooned!

  Nick Schou's Aug. 17 cover story "Red Scare in Little Saigon" has struck a nerve in the Vietnamese-American community, so much so that he's been immortalized in a none-too-flattering cartoon. It's currently up on the Vietnamese-language website www.take2tango.com. It's unclear just yet in what way Nick is supposed to be controlling Viet Weekly publisher Le Vu—our translation of the accompanying Vietnamese text is still pending—and I must say, that really doesn't look like Nick at all. Exce

  August 24, 2007

• Stay Tooned, Part Two

  The animated fallout over my Aug. 17 story "Red Scare in Little Saigon," which detailed the anti-communist boycott of Garden Grove-based newspaper Viet Weekly ain't over yet. First there was the cartoon on Take2Tango, a Vietnamese-language website by an artist named Buibaro depicting me as an ugly, big-nosed puppetmaster with my hand up the rear end of Viet Weekly publisher Le Vu. The cartoon--based on photos of me covering a confrontation between Viet Weekly staff and angry store employees in a

  September 5, 2007

• Nick Schou: Inspiration for Plagiarists

  For the past month, OC Weekly staffer Nick Schou (with an assist from web editor Janine Kahn) has followed protests at Viet Weekly's Garden Grove offices by Vietnamese who accuse the paper of communist sympathies. Coverage of the protests by the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register has been non-existent or sympathetic toward the protestors--until this weekend. That's when Times reporter Mike Anton parachuted into Little Saigon and filed a dispatch reporting the same points Schou did rega

  September 6, 2007

• Anti-Commie Agitator Arrested for Assault

  Bolsavik, the witty all-Viet-all-the-time blog, is reporting that Trong Doan (pictured), an anti-communist protester recently profiled by OC Weekly, has just been arrested for assault. Bolsavik is the latest endeavor by Hao-Nhien Vu, who lost his job at Nguoi Viet Daily News when anti-communists boycotted the paper over a photograph they didn't like. One of those protesters who cost Vu his job is Trong Doan. According to a Westminster Police Department press release, police arrested Doan yeste

  April 4, 2008

• Dina Nguyen Commits Godwin's Law!

  Years ago, through the wonders of the Rotten.com Library, I learned Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. Per Rotten.com: Conversely, you can attack an opponent simply by declaring his position to be consistent with Hitler's. This tactic has long been a fixture of the Usenet newsgroups, which eventually prompted Godwin to formulate his famous Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Whenever one of our

  April 14, 2008

• Tony Rackauckas Hunting Commies in Little Saigon?

  The Weekly never passes up on an opportunity to make fun of our favorite local lawman—favorite, now that Sheriff Mike Carona's out of the picture, that is—Tony Rackauckas. So when we saw this item on the fiesty and irreverent Bolsavik blog by ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor Hao-Nhien Vu, we couldn't resist posting it here. (Actually Bolsavik got the item from both Red County and Reg staffer Martin Wisckol's blog). Apparently, Rackauckas held a meeting with the beseiged editors of

  April 17, 2008

• Yearlong Viet Weekly Boycott Ends

  Our good friend Hao-Nhien Vu, a.k.a. the Bolsavik, the ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor who lost his job thanks to anti-commie protests, has another big scoop on his blog today. Apparently, protesters who have been demonstrating outside the Historic Main Street offices of Viet Weekly for the past year have taken their miniature South Vietnamese flags, blaring martial music and desecrated Ho Chi Minh doll and gone home. I wrote about the protests last month and sort of predicted this mi

  June 18, 2008

• The Anti-Commie Protests Against Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Limp Along in Little Saigon

  May 22, 2008

• Little Saigon’s Nguoi Viet Daily News Earns Anti-Commie Wrath—Again

  February 28, 2008

• Dammit, Janet!

  Why do Supervisor Janet Nguyen's former supporters in OC's Republican power structure hate her so much?

  January 17, 2008

• Caricature Assassination

  2007: A year to remember

  December 27, 2007

• Love's Labor Lost

  Filmmaker’s message to protesters: Sometimes a red carpet is just a red carpet

  August 30, 2007

• Letters

  "At least now we know that the 'new' weekly is picking up a bunch of non-gay, non-liberal readers"

  August 23, 2007

• Waiting With Red-baited Breath

  Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly

  August 23, 2007

• A History of Violence

  A brief history of anti-communist attacks in the United States
  

  August 16, 2007

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

  Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt
  

  August 16, 2007

• Best of OC 2004: Part 4

  October 21, 2004

• Jury to Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accused o

  May 27, 2009

• Jury to Little Saigon Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama that unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accu

  May 27, 2009