[cloudmountain]

Perhaps you have a different definition of ‘liberal’ than most of us here. In my book, Cronkite alone cost us (and South Vietnam) that war, and Rather, TO THIS DAY, will not come clean about the fake draft-dodging letter [not that I blame him, given the implications that coming clean would have done to the Left].

Maybe so.
Did you ever listen to ANY of those newscasters?
Did you serve in Vietnam or in our military?

Did it ever occur to you that those newscasters were instructed to say what they did? THEY didn't cause the war and THEY only mouthed what they were INSTRUCTED to say. Cronkite AND Rather were as much of a MOUTHPIECE as anyone and they APPARENTLY fooled YOU into thinking that THEY had ANY choices in what they were TOLD to report.

The Vietnam war was always page 10 news. It wasn't even a "war."
Look up the war on Wikipedia.

Mel Gibson did a movie on the FIRST combat action, 1965. He played Col. Hal Moore in the movie WE WERE SOLDIERS.

It WASN'T about Cronkite or any of those talking heads. It was about American lives in an unpopular war. My brother-in-law was on an aircraft carrier over there and a friend of mine served in Army right in the thick of things.
It was REAL personal for me.

Rather and Cronkite would have been the FIRST people to tell you: "I'm only following the orders of my editor." You gave them MUCH, MUCH, MUCH too much credit.
Only CONGRESS declares war.
They fooled you, didn't they?

[BobL]

“They fooled you, didn’t they?”

I actually don’t give a crap as to WHO, if anyone, may have told them to lie to the country, they LIED. It’s not that complicated and doesn’t require a ‘conspiracy’.