I NOW know that WE the people CAUSED the deaths of millions in South Vietnam and Cambodia because of the FRIGGIN LIBERAL PRESS LYING to US about the WAR.
We could have won the war and brought FREEDOM to a wonderful people.
Good points.
There are no liars in heaven..
I hope he repented and found Jesus.
Well said. To hell with him.
Well said.
Ditto - I was born in ‘60, and all I remember was the nightly body bag count from Uncle Walty.
EXACTLY! Walter Cronkite can be held responsible for much of the evil that transpired after we were forced to leave Vietnam. Whenever I think of the Killing Fields of Cambodia and the boat people, I think of Walter Cronkite. He started the ball rolling.
Sounds a little harsh? No...his false reporting that helped to turn public opinion was harsh. He held a lot of power in his day...as much or more than any politician.
Hubby was there as a pilot, and says that when we left we deserted that country and millions were killed. The press ignored it, as well as the hardships that were endured by these people.
Walter Cronkite, John Kerry and their like can be labeled as traitors, without question.
You’re absolutely right.
And if you listen to some of his speeches, he was a dyed-in-the-wool communist.
No tears here. But I think I’ll have a beer.
That’s our Walter Crankcase alright.
My memories of this treasonous bastard’s betrayal prevent me from mourning his passing. May God have mercy on his tortured soul.
That sums it up for me too.
-PJ
Walter Cronkite worked very hard to get to the “top” of his profession.
But he was as biased as the worst of them and Cronkite helped set the stage for death and suffering when the Communists took over South East Asia.
As an ex-television news person myself, it takes a lot of people to do TV news, especially at network level.
Cronkite read what he wrote and what others wrote for him, did what the producers wanted him to do, etc.
He was the leading face of the liberally biased CBS television news machine created back in the 1950’s.
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.
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.
“I NEVER ONCE KNEW that we won EVERY SINGLE BATTLE THERE.”
Holy Sh#t! Are you serious? I NEVER knew that either. I have read and heard that we were in fact winning there but I didn’t know we won EVERY SINGLE BATTLE. I was born in ‘75 so I obviously would not remember Vietnam.
Unreal!
My kids heard him just Wednesday and asked who he was. I tried to explain what how he manipulated the U.S. into defeat in Vietnam. Your post does a better job than I did.
Thanks
As for his soul and family, RIP and my condolences.
Walter surrounded himself with sycophants who would endlessly sing his praise. To those of us who knew him from personal experience he wasn't ever close to sainthood.
The real Cronkite...
...was always, in his own mind, always above the peasants, and frankly a pompous ass.
Quoted text from the Preface to:
CRONKITE, WALTER A Reporter's Life New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1997, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0394578791) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, viii, 384 pp. illus.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition."
My words exactly!