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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Scarborough analogized it to a "Cronkite moment." That was the time in 1968 when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite essentially declared the Vietnam War unwinnable.

Which was fake news.

The US had just won the Battle of the Tet Offensive.

The Viet Cong would never again be a fighting force.

It was a great victory.

The commie Cronkite saw an opportunity for a propaganda coup.

Tet was an effort by the North to take the South in one huge offensive. It was a gamble that they lost in a huge way. But the sheer audacity of the attack was so unexpected that it allowed the press to make it appear as though the North had taken stolen the momentum of the war. While the truth was just the opposite.

17 posted on 11/01/2019 9:39:25 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac
We won every battle in that war.

Media et al propaganda lost it for us and anticommunism.

39 posted on 11/01/2019 10:53:20 AM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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