And Cronkite's claim that becuase we were losing during the Tet Offensive, the war was lost...nothing further from the truth could have been said!
In fact, for every Ameican lost during the Tet Offensive, 100 of the enemy were lost.
Agree but you know how the media likes to play with numbers when we are in a war.
"Normandy exposed Eisenhower as an incompetent commander."
"Iwo Jima is a quagmire"
"Roosevelt the crippled Jew is fighting the war for his Wall Street buddies and the military-industrial complex so they can get rich and get the peoples' minds off the Depression."
His obit would have interested me 25 years ago. Now I know he was using our minds. I use my own mind now Walter.
And Cronkite's claim that becuase we were losing during the Tet Offensive, the war was lost...nothing further from the truth could have been said! In fact, for every Ameican lost during the Tet Offensive, 100 of the enemy were lost.At the Battle of the Ardennes Salient (The Battle of the Bulge), the Allies were losing for the first few days. By Walter's logic, we should have withdrawn all American forces and left Europe to the Germans.
When Farah has actual facts to reference, he’s a pretty good writer.
Cronkite was the sort of thing "up with which dad would not put."
Mr. niteowl77
He hated Cronkite after Tet. I was young and couldn't really get worked up about a news reader. Since then I've seen the cr#p that Rather, Jennings and the rest of the MSM has pulled. Thank God they're so stupid that they don't realize that most people are getting their news edited by the internet and web sites like this.
I have been avoiding FR and the news over Cronkite stories. Every time I hear his name I have to wonder how my life would have been if it were not for Cronkite. I’m fully convinced one of the reasons we are in the middle east now is the liberal work of men like Cronkite, Carter and jerks just like them.
BTW. Coats and Clark thread stinks. Gutermann and Metrosene aren’t as fuzzy and will keep your machine cleaner.
Walter was always after ways to promote Walter, he had no real convictions and no common sense with no education. I have no respect for him and his Marxist, “hate America” agenda. I believe Walter had an arrogant tone of voice along with a speaking voice that resonated well on television and sounded believable. He was selected by leading Marxists to spread their lies and did so for many generations and much to the detriment of America. People like Cronkite are dangerous because they have the center stage and his arrogance and “know-it-all” tone sounds very much like our new President. It has worked for decades and now Barry has picked up the baton.
It is time for America to wake up and stop putting their faith in these phoney patriots, their way leads to the end of America.
Walter was a world-government globalist traitor mole. Period.
A mole upon America. Also he volunteered to be John Anderson’s VP running mate in 1980.
Didn’t good old Walter write a book called,”So What’s A Wrong With Liberalism”, or something like that? Case closed!
Cronkite was an evil propagandist, the founding member of the modern corrupt mass media.
Good riddance to this monster.
Wow, John Anderson was really politically unsophisticated if he chose “Pat Lucey” over Uncle Walter. Cronkite could have put some states in play. People really believed he was the most trusted man in America and some of the older geezers still do!
Walter Cronkite and the Liberal Media were against the Viet Nam war since 1969.
When Cronkite “reported” on CBS in 1969 that because of the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam, “the war was lost”; he was not reporting the truth.
The truth is, we NEVER lost a major battle in the Viet Nam war including the Tet Offensive.
The truth is, that we handed the Viet Cong and the NVA some of their worst defeats during the Tet Offensive.
And Cronkite “jumped the shark” in 1969 and became complicit and instrumental in the antiwar movement which was orchestrated on colleges & universities by the Communist Party during the 1960’s.
The Communists KNEW they were losing the war in Viet Nam and they KNEW that the only way to prevent America from winning the war was to create antiwar sentiment in America.
While the media and politicians will be slobbering all kinds of praise on Walter Cronkite this weekend and beyond; I just want you to know the FACTS.
Yes, Cronkite was a very good reporter and I hope he made amends with his Maker before he died, but he was no American patriot during the Viet Nam war and he certainly wasn't honest in his "reporting.”
Many American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Marines were maimed and killed needlessly because JFK, LBJ and Democrat Party put us in a war that we could not win because we fought that war with “one hand behind our back”. And Cronkite & many others in the American media were complicit in the loss of the Viet Nam war because of their disingenuous reporting.
The vast majority of the media today is inundated with students of the 60’s who were indoctrinated by anti-American, anti-military, antiwar Leftists/Socialists/Marxists Journalism professors who were against the Viet Nam war. And as a result, we live in a country that gets their “news” today on television networks like ABC, CBS, NBC and newspapers like the New York Times & the L.A. Times whose editorial boards and news staffs are loaded with Liberals who are blatantly anti-military, antiwar and many times anti-American to the point of editorializing not only on the op-ed pages but in their news “reporting.”
JFK put us in the Viet Nam war and LBJ increased our presence but refused to allow us to WIN the war.
On more occasions than I care to remember; I led patrols across rice paddies and up mountains chasing the VC and NVA only to be ordered to return to our base camp after we had reached the Laotian border. You can't win a war unless you are committed to beating your enemy into defeat and final surrender.
And the Viet Nam War was the Korean War redux.
Finally, My Lai was an aberration and I can tell you unequivocally that there were no “mass murders or mass tortures” occurring during the Viet Nam war as was “reported” by the media.
John Kerry “testi-lied” before a congressional committee when he returned from Viet Nam in 1971 after only serving three months of his one year tour of duty.
He received orders back to the States by lying about so-called combat injuries he received while in Viet Nam and was awarded three Purple Hearts for injuries he did not receive in combat.There was a rule in place at the time that allowed anyone who received three Purple Hearts could be sent back to the States before finishing their tour of duty. John Kerry couldn't get out of Viet Nam fast enough. And Kerry lied about wounds he claimed he received on days that he was not involved in any enemy contact. For the record, I challenged Kerry some years ago on his military combat record but he refused to respond. Figures...once a coward, always a coward!
The Liberals in the media will be reporting and writing articles & books contrary to the FACTS regarding the Viet Nam war.
So don't be fooled by the praise laid on Walter Cronkite who is the “Father of American Liberal Media.”
I just wanted to “set the record straight” and inform you of the FACTS because I WAS THERE. I was a Marine Corps S-2 Intelligence NCO who not only had access to Intelligence reports but I also personally wrote many of those reports and was awarded combat medals and promotions for my work. So I KNOW the FACTS.
The Viet Nam war was lost in America NOT Viet Nam!
Semper Fidelis,
Kelly
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