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2003-06-09 Fifth Column

Cronkite: And thatâs the way Bush is â arrogant

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Posted by Celissa 2003-06-09 06:45 pm|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can you guys fix my open highlight tag?

Posted by Celissa 2003-06-09 18:59:32|| [www.celissasblog.com/] 2003-06-09 18:59:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Cronkite was the main reason the US lost the Vietnam war after the Tet offensive. The US won every battle, defeated the Viet Cong as an effective fighting force. Finally had a chance to let South Vietnam stand on their own. But nooooooooo. Cronkite decides the war is unwinnable and says so on air and convinces everyone the war is unwinnable. This changed opinions in America and North Vietnam.

Posted by Yank 2003-06-09 19:26:15|| 2003-06-09 19:26:15|| Front Page Top

#3 As far as I'm concerned, he's just a windy old hack that can't stand not being in the spotlight, spinning current events to his Commie view.
What a tool.

***Sorry about the highlighting. It looks like I left a tag open on my first comment...***

Posted by Celissa 2003-06-09 19:44:47|| [www.celissasblog.com/] 2003-06-09 19:44:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Cellissa---

You sure picked the Yellow Journalism Award article! heh heh

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-06-09 20:10:43|| 2003-06-09 20:10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Alaska Paul:
I'd boo and hiss if it weren't so true!

Posted by Celissa 2003-06-09 20:55:35|| [www.celissasblog.com/] 2003-06-09 20:55:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone please send Walter a prairie dog - preferably from Illinois.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-06-09 20:55:49|| 2003-06-09 20:55:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, Walter chimes in with this crap about every year or so just so people have an answer to the question, "Hey? Is Walter Cronkrite still alive?"
Then he gets on his big sailboat and sails down to his big house on the Vineyard and basks in the glow of the beautiful people.
He's just setting himself up for their adulation.

Posted by tu3031 2003-06-09 22:41:11|| 2003-06-09 22:41:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank God for Walter. If it weren't for toadies like him, we wouldn't know what the elitists were thinking.

Posted by Scott 2003-06-09 23:28:46|| 2003-06-09 23:28:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does anyone listen to this guy? Most old timers like me just have flatulence from one end, but Walter seems to have achieved a remarkable ability to not only produce it from both ends, but to market it for fun and profit. (So that's the way it is, June 8, 2003. Goodnight from CBS)

Posted by Anonymous Troll 2003-06-10 00:41:19|| 2003-06-10 00:41:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank you Yank, for mentioning Cronkite and his despicable statements on the Tet offensive. The U.S clearly and obviously not only one that battle decisively, we destroyed the Viet Cong in the bargain, yet Cronkite declared the war lost before most of the facts were even in. He is the father of the "rush to judgement" and quagmire crowd. His statements are one of the greatest stains on journalistic history, right up there with the New York Times' Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer prize reporting from the Soviet Union that everything was going just swimmingly in the Ukraine..."any report of a famine is today
an exaggeration or malignant propaganda" as millions were dying thanks to Stalin, he buddy.

Malcolm Muggeridge, who covered the famine, called Duranty the "greatest liar" in journalism. He turns out to be wrong. Cronkite has that honor now.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-06-10 03:01:32|| 2003-06-10 03:01:32|| Front Page Top

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