[george76]

Cronkite was a semi-regular on the Huffington Posts, out front attacking Christian conservatives and assailing the Bush administration policy on global warming

[Theodore R.]

People believed “Uncle Walter” was “fair” even when he was unbalanced!

[BIGLOOK]

The Kennedy administration remained essentially committed to the Cold War foreign policy inherited from the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. In 1961, the USA had 50,000 troops based in Korea, and Kennedy faced a three-part crisis—the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and a negotiated settlement between the pro-Western government of Laos and the Pathet Lao communist movement[80] These made Kennedy believe that another failure on the part of the United States to gain control and stop communist expansion would fatally damage U.S. credibility with its allies and his own reputation. Kennedy determined to "draw a line in the sand" and prevent a communist victory in Vietnam, saying, "Now we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place," to James Reston of The New York Times immediately after meeting Khrushchev in Vienna

Cronkite adored Kennedy, was ambivalent towards Johnson and down right hostile towards Nixon. This American political divide, manufactured and broadcast without counterpoint , without conscience and without truthful journalism. gave Cronkite his personal celebrity heyday as the 'Most trusted man in America'.

The trouble with celebrities is they are never called to account for their errors and they never fade away.

Draw the curtain on Walter. I discovered the facts, good and bad, of the war in SE Asia from people there and firsthand and they didn't jive with his copy delivered to the nightly news viewers.