Posted on 07/20/2009 12:36:14 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
He was not much better than Duranty and the blood of millions in Cambodia and Laos and Viet Nam is on his hands.
He was a lying liberal sack of sh!t. The idea that he only had a single incident of departure from the ideal of an objective news man is delusional at best.
Cronkite - lifelong traitor receives an award:
Walter Cronkite : “I’m Glad To Sit On The Right Hand Of Satan”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTwce_ZLDw
you got it!!
Ditto! Good call....
RIP you POS I want to spit on him like those fing animals did to our GIs coming home better yet piss all over his grave
He couldn’t come on television without my mother yelling liar. He was no more objective than Castro is caring.
It is not simply the lapse into overt editorializing that produces bias and demonstrates lack of integrity.
In reporting news, the opportunity to inject bias is present throughout the process:
- in deciding which "stories" to report, and the time and prominence to be given to each story, and conversely, which events not to report or not to give prominence to as news stories
- in deciding which facts to report and highlight within each story selected for reporting
- in hiring and promoting news producers and reporters and in assigning topics or events for them to cover
and so on. To say that Cronkite's CBS evening news had only this one lapse into bias and that otherwise his show was a rock of integrity is foolish nonsense.
***Yes January 1968 his leftist coward traitor side shown thru. ***
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/7624/Generals/giap.htm
***By 1968, NVA morale was at it’s lowest point ever. The plans for “Tet” ‘68 was their last desperate attempt to achieve a success, in an effort to boost the NVA morale. When it was over, General Giap and the NVA viewed the Tet ‘68 offensive as a failure, they were on their knees and had prepared to negotiate a surrender.
At that time, there were fewer than 10,000 U.S. casualties, the Vietnam War was about to end, as the NVA was prepared to accept their defeat. Then, they heard Walter Cronkite (former CBS News anchor and correspondent) on TV proclaiming the success of the Tet ‘68 offensive by the communist NVA. ***
He was dead wrong about Tet, and it f**ked us over big time. I despised Cronkite and don’t miss him one bit.
In fact, Tet destroyed the Viet Cong as an effective military force. Had the NVA withdrawn the war would have been over.
Because of Uncle Walter they changed their minds and decided to stay, fight and wait us out.
“How a great newsman helped undermine his professions ethos.”
How great could he have been, then?
Was he great simply because when he talked people tended to believe them? If that’s the standard, no wonder Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods are the Greatest Americans Who Ever Lived according to modern American culture.
Hey, Cronkite: America *won* the Tet Offensive! That’s right, I said it.
We lost the war, but won every single individual engagement (over a certain number of participants; there were probably instances when two Vietcong got the jump on one or two G.I. Joes.)
I hope that B@$t@rd is with Satan as I post this !!
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/7624/Generals/giap.htm
***By 1968, NVA morale was at its lowest point ever. The plans for Tet 68 was their last desperate attempt to achieve a success, in an effort to boost the NVA morale. When it was over, General Giap and the NVA viewed the Tet 68 offensive as a failure, they were on their knees and had prepared to negotiate a surrender.
At that time, there were fewer than 10,000 U.S. casualties, the Vietnam War was about to end, as the NVA was prepared to accept their defeat. Then, they heard Walter Cronkite (former CBS News anchor and correspondent) on TV proclaiming the success of the Tet 68 offensive by the communist NVA. ***”
Yes he should have been jailed as a traitor and at least banned from any news media.I shocked the Lefties at lunch when I went on a roll about this filthy Bastard and the 50,000 names he helped put on the Wall.
when he took the credit (rightly or wrongly) for “ending” the Vietnam War, it made all of the little liberal lemmings out there in journalism schools forsake factual reporting and obsessively aspire to “change the world”. This is the root of the problem we face today.
I heard today that Douglas Brinkley is writing a bio of Uncle Walt. According to Mr. Brinkley, in 1965 Uncle Walt said Vietnam was a quagmire. This was 3 years before Tet.
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