[marktwain]

“Cronkite didn’t care about the truth. He wasn’t evil, he was indifferent.”

No. Cronkite was evil. That level of indifference to the truth is evil in itself.

But there is more. Chronkite was a committed leftist who wanted the United States to lose in Vietnam, and did everything he could to make that happen.

[MamaB]

He is why I quit watching network news back in the 60’s. I do not think I have missed anything. I took my local paper until it became too liberal. Do not miss it either.

[rockinqsranch]

Thank you for your response. Right on the mark.

[jospehm20]

I agree. Cronkite was an evil commie bastatrd through and through.

[Stepan12]

No. Cronkite was evil. That level of indifference to the truth is evil in itself. But there is more. Chronkite was a committed leftist who wanted the United States to lose in Vietnam, and did everything he could to make that happen.

Contary to the article, Walter Cronkite was evil and Obama is evil. The article gets it wrong with Trump, his toothless Muslim proposal (perceived as tough), and the foam-at-the-mouth reaction of the media. When it comes to Muslims, the media's reaction to Trump (and to Donald Trump's earlier target, Pamela Geller) is psychological. Those in the media screaming at Trump know Islam is bad. That is why the drive by media is going so crazy. The drive by media has concocted a whole bunch of psychological defenses, rationalizations, and sheer denial against the fact that the drive by media itself knows that Islam is evil and they -- the drive by media -- are terrified of it. Since Donald Trump inadvertently struck these psychological defenses on the part of the media, the media is going to go hysterical at its psychological defenses being somewhat penetrated.

In other words, the media knows the truth about Muslims, that they are savages, it cannot stand that their denial is being pierced, and so they go crazy (this time on Donald Trump). We here so much about homophobia and islamophobia. The media is suffering from truthphobia. And that may be more frightening than the Muslims.

[jwalsh07]

Exactly right. Cronkite, Jennings and the rest of the commie crew were evil Goebellsian bastards along with Johnson and McNamara.

[o_1_2_3__]

Chronkite was a committed leftist who wanted the United States to lose in Vietnam, and did everything he could to make that happen.

That's evil in my book.

[DoughtyOne]

Wasn’t it the Tet Offensive he simply lied about?

If I have my skirmishes right, we actually won this, but Cronkite twisted it for the NVC.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I bet his fbi dossier, which we will never see, shows the son of a bitch was a card carrying communist.

[ExSoldier]

But there is more. Chronkite was a committed leftist who wanted the United States to lose in Vietnam, and did everything he could to make that happen.

All that you said is true but it goes further. Cronkite was, like Edward R. Murrow before him, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' inner circle and a strong proponent of the New World Order with the UN in charge of the planet. Cronkite was a strong proponent of gun control because he knew as long as the populace was armed, that NWO goal would never come to pass. That agenda is in itself evil. The entire media establishment is dedicated to that single goal, whether they know it or not, because that is the goal of their bosses who most certainly DO know what it's all about!

[hinckley buzzard]

Cronkite later admitted, after his retirement, that he missed the power of "setting the agenda." Walter Cronkite was pretty much a traitor, although he would most likely have been protected by shysters in a court of law.

BTW the Tet Offensive was indeed a massive defeat for the communists which resulted in the wiping out of the guerrilla Viet Cong forces in the South, while the NVA regulars ended up marching into Saigon with tanks, trucks and artillery 7 years later, after a democrat Congress cut off air support and other promised aid to South Vietnam.

[Daffynition]

Apropos of nothing....we were picnicking on the lawn of the Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford before a performance; and Bill Buckley moored his sailboat *The Cyrano* and he and Pat came ashore with Mr & Mrs Cronkite, also just in time for the curtain.

At that time, mid-60’s IIRC, I was so enamored of Buckley [& Goldwater] that I thought, if Bill could endure Cronkite, so could I. :)

[dp0622]

that piece of @#$@$# I was only a kid when he was around and I remembered him is this nice but curmudgeonly old guy.

Now I understand why father hated what seemed to a 7 year old a likable guy.

[pgkdan]

No. Cronkite was evil. That level of indifference to the truth is evil in itself.

That thought ran through my mind the entire time I was reading the article. I agree whole-heartedly!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Chronkite was a committed leftist who wanted the United States to lose in Vietnam, and did everything he could to make that happen.”

He lied to the American people every night for 25 years.