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What the Other Obits Won't Tell You About Cronkite (He pushed a radical agenda)
wnd.com ^ | July 18, 2009 | Joseph Farah

Posted on 07/19/2009 5:59:39 AM PDT by kellynla

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"Thus, when he gave his opinions, they had impact. One example was his report on the Tet offensive in Vietnam, which is credited with swinging the tide of opinion against the war."

And Cronkite's claim that becuase we were losing during the Tet Offensive, the war was lost...nothing further from the truth could have been said!

In fact, for every Ameican lost during the Tet Offensive, 100 of the enemy were lost.

1 posted on 07/19/2009 5:59:39 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

Agree but you know how the media likes to play with numbers when we are in a war.


2 posted on 07/19/2009 6:05:35 AM PDT by Vaduz
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I'm convinced that the only reason World War Two was considered a "good war" was because Hitler invaded the Left's hero-nation, the Soviet Union....otherwise, we'd have had the same sort of reporting from Cronkite, Murrow, et. al. that we got from the Vietnam War....

"Normandy exposed Eisenhower as an incompetent commander."

"Iwo Jima is a quagmire"

"Roosevelt the crippled Jew is fighting the war for his Wall Street buddies and the military-industrial complex so they can get rich and get the peoples' minds off the Depression."

3 posted on 07/19/2009 6:08:34 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: kellynla

His obit would have interested me 25 years ago. Now I know he was using our minds. I use my own mind now Walter.


4 posted on 07/19/2009 6:08:55 AM PDT by omega4179 (Anti)
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kellynla said:
And Cronkite's claim that becuase we were losing during the Tet Offensive, the war was lost...nothing further from the truth could have been said! In fact, for every Ameican lost during the Tet Offensive, 100 of the enemy were lost.
At the Battle of the Ardennes Salient (The Battle of the Bulge), the Allies were losing for the first few days. By Walter's logic, we should have withdrawn all American forces and left Europe to the Germans.
5 posted on 07/19/2009 6:12:46 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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When Farah has actual facts to reference, he’s a pretty good writer.


6 posted on 07/19/2009 6:13:01 AM PDT by Terpfen (FR is being Alinskied. Remember, you only take flak when you're over the target.)
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To: kellynla
another elitist Marxist with the wherewithal to sail around Long Island in his huge sailing yacht....lifes a b!tch for the peasants, ain't it....
7 posted on 07/19/2009 6:16:15 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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I can remember quite clearly the night that my father - a Democrat - watched Walter Cronkite and started to swear in anger over the clear anti-military agenda. After that evening, he'd still go to the local CBS affiliate for the local newscast, but went elsewhere for the national news, even though NBC was considered "second-string" at our house, and ABC was seen as almost hapless.

Cronkite was the sort of thing "up with which dad would not put."

Mr. niteowl77

8 posted on 07/19/2009 6:23:09 AM PDT by niteowl77 (You wanted him, and now you have got him. I say, "Good day to you," America.)
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Yeah, Uncle Walter is still dead. My father couldn't believe the evening news when he got back from Vietnam. He said it was like listening to somebody that hadn't even been in the same places that he'd been.

He hated Cronkite after Tet. I was young and couldn't really get worked up about a news reader. Since then I've seen the cr#p that Rather, Jennings and the rest of the MSM has pulled. Thank God they're so stupid that they don't realize that most people are getting their news edited by the internet and web sites like this.

9 posted on 07/19/2009 6:32:13 AM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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I have been avoiding FR and the news over Cronkite stories. Every time I hear his name I have to wonder how my life would have been if it were not for Cronkite. I’m fully convinced one of the reasons we are in the middle east now is the liberal work of men like Cronkite, Carter and jerks just like them.


10 posted on 07/19/2009 6:33:10 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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BTW. Coats and Clark thread stinks. Gutermann and Metrosene aren’t as fuzzy and will keep your machine cleaner.


11 posted on 07/19/2009 6:35:32 AM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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Walter was always after ways to promote Walter, he had no real convictions and no common sense with no education. I have no respect for him and his Marxist, “hate America” agenda. I believe Walter had an arrogant tone of voice along with a speaking voice that resonated well on television and sounded believable. He was selected by leading Marxists to spread their lies and did so for many generations and much to the detriment of America. People like Cronkite are dangerous because they have the center stage and his arrogance and “know-it-all” tone sounds very much like our new President. It has worked for decades and now Barry has picked up the baton.
It is time for America to wake up and stop putting their faith in these phoney patriots, their way leads to the end of America.


12 posted on 07/19/2009 6:40:05 AM PDT by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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Walter was a world-government globalist traitor mole. Period.


13 posted on 07/19/2009 6:41:58 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: reg45; kellynla

“By Walter’s logic...”

Well said. I have noticed the left always talks about “exit strategies”. How about winning? They also always try to paint America and Americans in the worst possible light when we are at war. If I am fair, then I must truthfully admit America has made mistakes. Every nation has. But in the course of history, no nation has given as much of themselves for the benefit of all humankind as America. What kind of world would we now have if in 1941 our leaders asked about “exit strategy”? What if they spoke of our own racial problems, our financial problems and decided we didn’t have the funds or the “moral position” to go to war? No, we are not perfect. We never will be. But, take a good long look around the world. America is it’s last great hope. We have to fix ourselves - because as bad as things are in America, without a free America - the world looks pretty dark.-—JM


14 posted on 07/19/2009 6:43:27 AM PDT by Jubal Madison (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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A mole upon America. Also he volunteered to be John Anderson’s VP running mate in 1980.


15 posted on 07/19/2009 6:43:45 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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Didn’t good old Walter write a book called,”So What’s A Wrong With Liberalism”, or something like that? Case closed!


16 posted on 07/19/2009 6:46:20 AM PDT by Mier (We grow to soon old and to late smart!)
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To: kellynla
It's so normal, now,
to hate TV news readers
or to dismiss them

like Katie Couric
it must be strange for young kids
to try to look back

three generations
to when news readers were loved.
(I still remember

assassination
researchers being surprised
Dan Rather's account

of Zapruder's film
didn't match the film itself.)
It's been a big change.

17 posted on 07/19/2009 6:48:16 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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Cronkite was an evil propagandist, the founding member of the modern corrupt mass media.

Good riddance to this monster.


18 posted on 07/19/2009 6:48:19 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: kellynla

Wow, John Anderson was really politically unsophisticated if he chose “Pat Lucey” over Uncle Walter. Cronkite could have put some states in play. People really believed he was the most trusted man in America and some of the older geezers still do!


19 posted on 07/19/2009 6:48:46 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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Walter was also a pretty serious drinker. I know some one in school with Kronkite's son. He came to campus sometimes. I have never cared for him, since i caught on (Vietnam era) to his bias.

vaudine

20 posted on 07/19/2009 6:49:44 AM PDT by vaudine
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