Cronkite can kiss my ass:
PASADENA, Calif. – Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, said Sunday he’d say the same thing today about???? Iraq.
“It’s my belief that we should get out now,” Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.
Now 89, the television journalist once known as “the most trusted man in America” has been off the “CBS Evening News” for nearly a quarter-century. He’s still a CBS News employee, although he does little for them.
Cronkite said one of his proudest moments came at the end of a 1968 documentary he made following a visit to Vietnam during the Tet offensive. Urged by his boss to briefly set aside his objectivity to give his view of the situation, Cronkite said the war was unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit.
Then-President Lyndon Johnson reportedly told a White House aide after that, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
I love how this sorry sack of dung is proud that he helped a million innocent Vietnamese die all because he didn’t want us to win a war that we were winning.? He doesn’t speak for middle america anymore, only the fringe left and they will always be on the losing side.? Doesn’t this man have a date with a casket or something?
I know, a little harsh but any man who is proud of his efforts to turn our country into a country of cowards and letting millions of Vietnamese die all because he FELT we were losing is no one I have sympathy for.
He will always be remembered as the commentator who betrayed 2.5 million men in uniform that served in Vietnam.
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I love how this sorry sack of dung is proud that he helped a million innocent Vietnamese die all because he didn’t want us to win a war that we were winning. He doesn’t speak for middle america anymore, only the fringe left and they will always be on the losing side. Doesn’t this man have a date with a casket or something?
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Cronkite joins the long list of Lefty traitors…
But of course he joined over thirty years ago…
Old Guys (89) like Cronkite are good at doing only two things…burping and farting…Cronkite’s has been doing both lately…and his lib lapdog MSM has picked up on it…
CRONKITE: WRONG IN 1968; WRONG NOW!
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“Cronkite said one of his proudest moments came at the end of a 1968 documentary he made following a visit to Vietnam during the Tet offensive. Urged by his boss to briefly set aside his objectivity to give his view of the situation, Cronkite said the war was unwinnable and that the U.S. should exit. …
Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam War was unwinnable keenly influenced public opinion then, said Sunday he’d say the same thing today about Iraq. … “It’s my belief that we should get out now,” Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.”
RELIAPUNDIT: Here are the facts:
(1) WE WON THE TET OFFENSIVE (Cronkite was WRONG!);
(2) We had NO COMBAT TOOPS in Vietnam as of 3/29/73, and South Vietnam didn’t fall until 1975, and
(3)THEN, it ONLY FELL because DEMOCRAT DOVES IN CONGRESS – like Kennedy and McGovern, (egged on by doves like Cronkite and Kerry and Fonda) – PULLED THE PLUG ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF OUR ALLY: THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE!
Today’s doves – Kennedy, Kerry and Cronkite (YUP: IT’S THE SAME OLD TIRED CREW, TOO!) – WOULD HAVE US DO TO THE IRAQIS WHAT WE DID TO THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE.
Instead of the South Vietnamese being as free ansd as rich as South Koreans, they are as tyrannized and poor as the NORTH Koreans.
MEANWHILE: the Vietnamese Marxists who tyrannize their own people are NOW BEGGING for the US “CAPITALIST PIGS” to invest in their backwards impoverished nation.
WELL, IF IT WASN’T FOR THE VIETCONG – AND THEIR WILLING ALLIES IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, (FOLKS LIKE KENNEDY AND KERRY AND CRONKITE) – THE VIENAMESE COULD HAVE HAD ALL THAT USA INVESTMENT STARTING IN 1965!
Sh-t: by now they’d be as rich as the JAPANESE!
MY POINT: The oldtimers in the Left simply don’t get it: they were wrong then and they are wrong now.
It’s long passed time they just shut the eff up.
Watch for the MSM to parade this has-been around to the usual shows. Chrissy Mathews will no doubt have him on.
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Cronkite yaps…. why is this news?…
Okay Cronkite we get it, you are an extreme leftist…. now please shut up. Ancient moonbat Walter Cronkite, who right before the 2004 election put forth a theory on Larry King Live that a recently released Bin Laden tape was……