Walter Cronkite's Push for Abortion and Homosexuality, 1965-2003

LifeSiteNews ^ | 7/21/09 | Patrick B. Craine

[wagglebee]

"It certainly is the right of the anti-abortionists and those who oppose gay marriages to defend, express and even propagandize their beliefs," he says, "but is it their right to impose their definition of morality on those who hold opposing views? The answer is a resounding 'no'. ... This columnist believes that among conservatives and liberals alike there is a majority who would put the sanctity of individual rights even above the sanctity with which some would endow the banning of abortion and gay marriage."

Right and wrong IS NOT decided by a majority vote.

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[JoyjoyfromNJ]

And I am convinced that he helped defeat America during the VietNam war. He “propagandized” every night during the war—but it was okay for him to do so (sarcasm dripping off the snarl of my lips). I wasn’t aware of all these other areas he was also involved in so thanks for posting this.

[Soothesayer]

Commie scumbag traitor. Not to mention the 5.5 million Asian men, women, and children who were slaughtered because of this bastard and his lies.

[mbarker12474]

Yep

[Sans-Culotte]

With every passing day, I learn to loathe Cronkite more and more.

[wagglebee]

He did more than help the North Vietnamese, he handed them victory.

Senior North Vietnamese officials have since admitted that they were ready to negotiate a treaty after they were crushed during the Tet Offensive. But when they saw Cronkite declaring them the winner they changed their minds.

[messierhunter]

but is it their right to impose their definition of morality on those who hold opposing views? The answer is a resounding 'no'

If I have the opposing view that it's moral for me to kill you, would you still have the right to impose your morality on me walter? Would the answer still be a resounding no?

[mbarker12474]

And I am convinced that he helped defeat America during the VietNam war. He “propagandized” every night during the war—but it was okay for him to do so (sarcasm dripping off the snarl of my lips). I wasn’t aware of all these other areas he was also involved in so thanks for posting this.

A thoroughly far-left scumbag. As the primary source of war coverage in the Vietnam era, he bears huge responsibility for the "blame America first" worldview that pervades society in the post-Vietnam era.

[lonestar]

I couldn't stand Walter Cronkite and never did trust him!

I understood media bias before it was "cool" ...when my first vote/ volunteering was working for Goldwater.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Another ancient, fossilized liberal who never saw a line he wasn't willing to cross and who regarded people whose views remained constant "dangerous radicals."

I suppose if FDR were alive today, even at age 127 he'd be out there pushing his wheelchair in a march to legalize bestiality.

As I said on another thread, Cronkite and the Ivy League are tied as exhibit A in the theory that the Left is actually run by the Old American Establishment. Thurston Howell Guevara III?

[clintonh8r]

Uncle Walter pissed his pants in Hue City and decided then and there that we had lost.....

[trisham]

bump!

[MestaMachine]

Why doesn’t the fawning coverage of this man EVER bring up the fact that he was ONLY an “icon” because at the time, there WASN”T anyone else? Three channels. Three anchors. All liberal. And everyone in this hemisphere watched the CBS Evening News. He just happened to get in when the getting was good...for him.

[Albion Wilde]

Fame goes to some people’s heads; with Cronkite, it went below the waist.

[LuigiBasco]

FWC!
How many lives was he responsible for between Vietnam and the RARE abortion on demand stance in his glorious life time?

[Albion Wilde]

In 1965, before abortion was made legal in the U.S., Cronkite made CBS the first network in America to feature a documentary on abortion ...entitled 'Abortion and the Law'... The documentary claimed to tackle the controversial issue impartially, dealing with the "legal, moral and medical aspects," but in fact, it amounts to an hour-long argument in favour of legal abortion. Amidst a barrage of experts spouting the need for abortion and women giving horrifying testimonies about illegal abortions, Cronkite pays mere lip service to the pro-life viewpoint.

Substitute "gay rights" or "gay marriage" for "abortion", and it's the "same old, same old" propaganda treatment that we're getting today from the MSM.