Always watched NBC News in those days, I still remember the running joke of Archie Bunker chunking stuff at the TV when he came on though.
Posted on 07/17/2009 5:15:12 PM PDT by Mmogamer
....lied to us about Vietnam.
That's what I'll remember about him.
I remember his last newscast. I was a student at Ohio State and a few of us went down to the tv room at our dorm and watched the news. I know since then alot of us have been upset with him due to his zanny liberalism which was caused by G W Bush winning the presidency. But he was a fixture in american life if you were of age back then.
Let’s see, I was in the army when he was reporting on the Vietnam war and when he was reporting on Nixon.
I bet the mods are keeping a careful eye on this thread.
he liked the war early in the JFK and LBJ Admin. Never forget that Vietnam was JFK and LBJ’s war. The main objective was to make LBJ even richer. He went in the White House wealthy and left the second wealthiest President after Washington. George was estimated inflation adjusted with his land holdings to be a billionaire. Washington risked it all in the Revolutionary War.
Some people think LBJ had JFK whacked because JFK was going to pull out of Nam. If so - it was motivated by LBJ’s unsatiable greed. The companies LBJ owned or was a major shareholder did very very well in Vietnam.
That’s what I thought.
Exactly
Archie: Edith, what channel is the CBS News?
Edith: Channel 2, the one we never watch because you said Walter Cronkite is a Communist.
After the U.S. evacuated Vietnam, there was nothing to stop old animosities between the Cambodians and Vietnamese from turning hot. Here’s a description of what happened in Ba Chuc.
“On April 30, 1977, Pol Pot’s troops launched a surprise attack on 13 villages in eight Vietnamese border provinces. Ba Chuc was the hardest hit. The massacre was at its fiercest during the 12 days of occupation, April 18-30, 1978, during which the intruders killed 3,157 villagers. The survivors fled and took refuge in the pagodas of Tam Buu and Phi Lai or in caves on Mount Tuong, but they were soon discovered. The raiders shot them, slit their throats or beat them to death with sticks. Babies were flung into the air and pierced with bayonets. Women were raped and left to die with stakes planted in their genitals.”
There were two survivors to the massacre.
Cronkite didn’t cover it on the CBS evening news.
As judged by subsequent events, Cronkite was wrong. And over time, his words became a watershed marking the place where the gradual erosion of the MSM’s credibility began.
Always watched NBC News in those days, I still remember the running joke of Archie Bunker chunking stuff at the TV when he came on though.
Not anymore.
I never really cared for Walter Cronkite. And now there’s no Walter Cronkite for me not to care about.
LOL! See my post # 67.
I don't wish that on him, but it is what it is.
He HATED God. Hated Him.
I can post whatever documentation you wish about that.
Still - prayers for his soul - and good luck with what you believed Walter.
If you are in Hell now - you now know Eternal Suffering and what it means to be wrong. Christ could have helped you.
But not now. You made your choice.
How terrible.
Damn, he just missed his chance at having his ashes scattered in space by the Shuttle astronauts...
RIP Walter... but I pretty much disagreed with all your opinions... but hey... someone had to do the dirty work.
RIP = Repent in Purgatory
Good riddance to a leftist tool!
This is a sad day.
For the State Run Media.
Well........bye.
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