Posted on 07/17/2009 5:15:12 PM PDT by Mmogamer
Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite has died at age 92, The New York Times reports.
Too bad Franken’s my (gulp) senator...
Maybe it’s him posting here, just for giggles you know.
Just because he was the first doesn’t mean he was the best.. I share your sentiments.. He stepped over the line with personal opinion. He emboldened the Progressive Poisoning of our Society.
Wonder if Walter Crankcase had anything to do with MJ’s death?
RIP and peace to those who loved him.
LOL!! Your forgetting the caller to uncle al sharpton who suggested Sarah Palin might have had something to do with MJ’s big kick off.
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!! Now I am fully awake again and will have to refill my wine glass. Just damn. That is truly obnoxious...every woman’s nightmare. But, sadly, a perfect fit for a liberal senator!
Yowza! Yep, that’s my senator. And I thought Ventura in his boa was bad. Erpppp!
I just cannot believe that angry white man is a senator...I guess being a US senator is not the honor it used to be...I feel for ya...one of my senator’s was the first republican to come out and say he was going to VOTE for the racist sotomayor....gish. Lugar has lost his core.
Douglas Edwards?
Ted:"In order to become a law, this bil must be passed by two-thirds of the 48 states." (Pause) Oh, two more? OK, four-thirds of the 48 states.
Hee-hee. Every woman’s nightmare. Imagine being named Frannie Franken, that’s her name, I kid you not.
Geesh! I meant to mention that’s his wife’s name. LOL
I have to tell ya that just the thought of that makes me wanna crawl into a corner and cover my head. Just ew.
As to Walter, well, I hate what he did to us in Nam, but LBJ spent his entire presidency proving that bad enough leadership could screw anything up. We lost Nam, and Walter didn't help our cause, but LBJ was trying to create a Korea situation. He didn't want to win, he wanted the US to control half the country. That's the reason we dug five deep water ports in Nam. We wanted a place for our carriers to dock.
That's the reason the Chinese fought so fiercely, and we were fighting the Chinese there, just as we did in Korea. Control of Viet Nam would have given us control of just about the entire Pacific Rim coastline.
You mean he’s not hot? ACORN seems to think so. I am soooo disgusted with Minnesota.
Republic,
My reaction was similar to yours.
In early 1968, General Westmoreland said that we had come to so control the enemy that he couldn’t mount a successful attack in a single major province.
Within about a month the Vietcong mounted major attacks in every single one of some 58 provinces across the country.
Walter Cronkite went on a “fact finding” tour and basically helped the nation conclude that we could not trust our military commanders to tell us the truth. The presentation was that they were either lying, or hopelessly deluded.
What was forgotten was the fact that NONE of the attacks were successful; rather, we annihilated the Viet Cong. They ceased to exist as a fighting force. And from Tet on, it was North Vietnamese Army troops fighting us, using much more conventional tactics, and no longer having the support of the people.
Tet was a complete military disaster for North Vietnam. It couldn’t have gone much worse for them.
But at just the moment we could have truly won the Vietnam War, people like Walter Cronkite persuaded us to give up.
Had we stayed in, we almost certainly would have been able to get the North to come crawling to the negotiating table. But as it was, they watched “Uncle Walter,” and knew that somehow, amazingly, the American left had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Another thing few people realize is that Vietnam was a major battle in the Cold War. We fought communism all across the world, and checked the most evil ideology on earth in hot spot after hot spot.
Our soldiers and Marines knew how to win. Unfortunately, our our leaders forgot, and liberals sabotaged us at every turn.
Yet another thing, as we think of what the media has become, was just how profoundly liberal and atheist Walter Cronkite turned out to be. It is hard to see how such a profoundly biased man offered us “objective” news.
Yup. He’s dead.
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