HISTORY QUESTION: Did Walter Cronkite and CBS offer assistance to the Vietnam anti-war movement?

Hotair ^ | 05/15/2010 | Ed Morrissey

[RWB Patriot]

Regardless of whether this is true or not, what IS true is that Crackpot Cronkite’s skewed reporting of the Vietnam War contributed to our loss.

[dr_who]

Of course. By way of his on-air commentary.

[RaceBannon]

disinformation usually helps the enemy more than it helps us!

[historyrepeatz]

True. And.. The ONLY difference between Cronkite and EVERY member of the lame stream media (CBS, NBC & CBS) is that Cronkite hid his motivations and that of his networks’.

[GeronL]

Is anyone really surprised?

[Colonel_Flagg]

but unless he was working a story, spending 45 minutes talking to a rally organizer doesn’t sound realistic.

Sounds to me like the whole purpose of the flight would have been to 'work a story'.

[SeekAndFind]

disinformation usually helps the enemy more than it helps us!

According to this piece of news, disinformation was DELIBERATE and was done not to report the news but to CREATE news.

Walter Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even pledging CBS News resources to help pull off events, according to FBI documents obtained by Yahoo! News.

[skimask]

Yes...Cronkite was a commie lover who made up news to fit his agenda. He was there. He knew the numbers of viet cong and NVA that were killed. He knew the Tet Offensive was a complete failure for the North, yet he reported the opposite. He has the blood of many 1000’s of Soldiers, Marines, Navy, and Air Force personel on his hands as he rots in hell.

[pnh102]

Uh yea, he did.

[unspun]

Remembering watching the news when I was a kid, of course they aided the protesters — and ultimately the Vietnamese Communists.

[elpadre]

I have reason to believe this is accurate.

Plus CBS has a history of fabricating events and then covering them on national TV. I recall one during the 60’s was a Civil Rights demonstration. - produced and broadcast as genuine. Also, there was another in Vietnam. There were probably others as well. They are the dirty hands people.

[GregoTX]

Is anyone really surprised?

Nope... as a matter of fact, I fully EXPECT democrats and the MSM to assist, defend, and promote communism (or any form of Marxism) at every opportunity they have.

[Bronzy]

And, the movie actress Jane Fonda should have been tried for treason.

[benewton]

Do wild bears s**t in the woods?

[piytar]

Of course it’s true. Cronkite’s mischaracterization of the debacle - for the NORTH - of the Tet Offensive was worth many divisions of troops. Let alone his statement that, “The war is over.”

Commie symp or useless idiot? Doesn’t matter to me. If p###ing on his grave wasn’t illegal, it would be on my bucket list...

[Bronzy]

Yes. Yes and yes!

[angryoldfatman]

Yes...Cronkite was a commie lover who made up news to fit his agenda. ... He has the blood of many 1000’s of Soldiers, Marines, Navy, and Air Force personel on his hands as he rots in hell.

You're on the money.

Not only does he have the blood of our boys on his hands, he also, ironically enough, has the blood of at least 1,000,000 Vietnamese and the Communist enslavement of millions more on his hands.

Had he not done the despicable propagandizing for the enemy (all of them, not just the North Vietnamese), the war would have been over so much sooner and many fewer people would have suffered.

I wouldn't want to be him on Judgement Day, when the souls who suffered because of him testify against him.

[patriot preacher]

Are you freaking KIDDING?! When “Uncle Walter” said after the Tet Offensive in 1968 in his “Commentary” that it just didn’t seem like this war was “worth it,” that MADE the Anti-war movement, and forced LBJ to drop his bid for reelection (thank God for ONE small favor).

In short, the Leftist Media was COMPLICIT with Liberal Democrats in our defeat and abandonment of South Vietnam to the Communists — and the subsequent loss of Cambodia and Laos to the Communists as well.

[pankot]

Dig him up and hang him for treason.