Posted on 07/27/2009 2:23:23 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Walter Cronkite, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and many others like them bear a large part of the burden of having caused the deaths and brutalization of many South Vietnamese in re-eduction camps, deaths of many more fleeing communist tyranny as Boat People, and the deaths of millions in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Walter was a newsreader with a warm, assuring, grandfatherly persona. Don’t mistake his having this for a reason for him to be someone you should like.
Article in today’s Sioux Falls Argus Leader (sorry they prohibit links) that George McGovern seriously considered asking Walter Cronkite to be his vice presidential running mate in 1972. Cronkite later is to have said he would have accepted McGovern’s offer.
Your dad was right, Artemis.
I was born in 1954 and grew to dislike and distrust Cronkite during and after the mid 1960s.
Was I the only one to notice Uncle Walt’s eager underlings, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, et al each doing their repetitive doom and gloom reports from Khe Sahn. With each of the reporters doing their pieces in front of the still smodering wreckage of the same C-130 that had been hit by mortars day earlier?
I pray for Walt’s family, but don’t mourn his passing, since he’s answered to a higher authority.
Jack.
I seriously doubt McGovern would have won anyway but the choice would have given him a much better chance of defeating Nixon than the whole Eagleton/Shriver affair.
This gen-x non-vet thinks Cronkite is sh*t too!
Yes me too. Even my liberal Mom and Dad didn’t like him because according to them “he lied a lot”.
Roger that. The pig was as responsible for the commies winning in Nam as anyone in the communist movement. He lied, lied, and lied more every night on TV about the war, what was going on. We WON Tet. To hear the pig talk, we lost like Pearl Harbor day.
This guy is full of it. Generation X had very little to do with Cronkite but since the writer is an Xer and liked Cronkite he wants to do the usual neat little generation packaging that the media does.
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