I thought that no one watched CNN unless they were at the airport or in a waiting room.
CNN? i thought they went out of business
I remember.
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats were celebrated in the establishment MSM as the most intelligent generation ever! They are now arguably that very establishment that praised them and they hold themselves and their ideological issue in even higher regard.
My complaints to network TV news back then always got the same reply.. "We're professionals and you're not."
I saw a few minutes but did not get interested in it. I was in my early 20’s back then and knew Cronkite was lying. That is when I quit being interested in network news. Why watch him when I was smarter than he? He was one of the reasons we did not win that war. People died due to him and other numbskulls.
I loved life in the Sixties, but I lived in a bubble.
My dad was military, and we lived out of the country on military bases in Japan and the Philippines between 1967 and 1972.
I was a strait-laced kid, for the most part. Didn’t drink or smoke.
I hated hippies, the anti-war movement, and liberals. They painted hardworking, dedicated and patriotic people like my dad and my friend’s dads with a broad brush...basically, evil and stupid.
I remember being pretty upset at the concept of Hubert Humphrey winning the presidency.
I lived on military bases, so I was insulated from what was going on back in the States. But I will tell you, there was a part of me that wasn’t excited to go back.
Race riots. LSD dropped into the lunches of unsuspecting students. Antiwar demonstrations. And so on.
But part of me desperately wanted to come back, and I do recall getting on my knees at the tarmac at Kennedy International in New York and pressing my lips to the asphalt.
No joke, I really did.
But the Sixties left us with what we have now in government: Radical Leftists. There are no more Democrats like Zell Miller or Scoop Jackson (though Scoop Jackson showed his true colors during the Annie Lee Moss fiasco, in the same way Truman showed his true colors when it became apparent there was indeed a communist infestation in the US government...)
But there is not one single Democratic politician in this country that I feel has the best interests of the United States at heart, as I did feel with some Democrats in years gone by.
Now, they are all rubber-stamp stooges, as far as I am concerned, aiding and abetting the destruction of this country. Not a single honorable one amongst them.
Can't we all just forget that it was this freckled, drug-addled invalid whorehound who blundered us into Viet Nam? Who "triumphed" over Kruschev, by taking down our missiles in Turkey in exchange for recognizing Cuba as a fully armed Soviet satellite state. Who, now revered as a Civil Rights Hero, fought Negro equality tooth and nail, voting for years alongside the segregationist Southern Democrats ... who was a fervent backer of Senator Joe McCarthy? Who shared a girlfriend with Momo Giancana and used Momo's Crew to try and take out Fidel Castro? Who had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, shared her with his Brother Bobby, leading to her suspicious "suicide?"
Ah yes, those great '60s. When American common sense and pragmatism was finally over-ruled by incandescent Kennedy show-biz PR bullshiite.
Two things to remember: JFK is still dead. Fidel Castro is still alive.
That said, on the Commie News Network (CNN), I did watch a recent Parts Unknown about Mississippi. Anthony Bourdain, another leftist like the insufferable Hanks, actually did present the Magnolia State in a somewhat favorable light, even grudgingly admitting that the real racists are northerners.
All we had to do was win the war in 1966 by invading and occupying the north and hanging Ho.
Johnson/Nixon were no smarter than Truman was in Korea.
But Ho Chi Minh was a whole lot smarter than Kim Il-Sung.
I saw it in the channel listings and knew it would be full of crap. Never bothered to watch.
I don’t watch network or cable TV anymore.
I feel much better....So can you.
I use internet streaming only..(Netflix, hulu, etc..)
For news I use streaming radio where I can pick my sources.
No CNN....No Fox....No flaming alphabet BS...
I doubt many FReepers ever watch CNN
Vietnam started all this leftist insanity, and we are infected by the idiots and traitors of that era, the Hagels and Kerrys
No because it is so far left (except for Jack Tapper) that I haven’t watched it for decades
Nope.
Knew better.
College text books continue the lies, too. I think we need to defend our vets and let everyone know about the ROE. Post wherever the show is mentioned. Google search, log in, post.
The TV show “Mad Men” does a pretty good job with the 1960s.
The Left piled into their VW bus, drove up to Woodstock, got high and “checked out the groovy scene, man” and then the bus got stuck in the mud.
They still haven’t returned...