Walter Cronkite is dead/merged

[John Kepler]

At the risk of getting this entire thread moved "Below the salt" to the "Private" forum....One less liberal in the world!

[7.62 NATO]

Although it took a bunch of courage for reporters to hump it in combat zones, I'm sure most did it not only for the pay but to enhance their carers. Unlike a serviceman they could always turn down an assignment.
But here we go again getting bombarded due to a loss of a person no more important than a derelict on the side the road
while most are unaware of the names killed this week fighting for our nation.
P.S. Walt......WE WON TET!

[John Kepler]

And at the risk of getting this whole thread dumped "Below the Salt" into the "Private" Gulag...one less liberal in the world!

[Bob Womack]

Let's keep this topic accessible to users of Gun Talk by doing what we were taught by our parents.

Bob

[Bob Womack]

In Edward Jablonski's book, Flying Fortress, Mr. Cronkite told the story of flying with the B-17s of the Eighth Air Force on a mission over Germany and learning of their hardiness first-hand. At the last minute, the PR officer of the Eighth asked the pool of reporters for volunteers to fly with the B-24s. Two or three raised their hands and were jeeped off to the bases for the B-24s. At the end of the raid, none of the reporters who flew with the B-24s had made it back.

Bob

[TomSudz]

Let's keep this topic accessible to users of Gun Talk by doing what we were taught by our parents.

Bob

Well, Bob, my parents taught me to tell the truth. While I normally will refrain from speaking ill of the dead, I'm not going to lie and say he was a great guy. Yes during WWII he did come down on the side of our troops (I think he even rode into Holland in a glider with the 101st) and that deserves some recognition, he had no problem going the other way on our troops in Vietnam when he thought he could get away with it. "Uncle Walter" is only the uncle of today's reporters, who instead of reporting the facts as they are, report the "facts" as they want them seen.

[0311Shooter]

I too don't want to keep harping on this but the news media is gushing over Cronkite in Michael Jackson fashion.

When last night my wife said to me "I guess you didn't like him either?" I said, "If your son had been killed in Vietnam, you wouldn't either". After his words about the Tet Offensive, our guys slaughtered the VC, but just because they COULD pull off this dastardly attack during a "holiday", it was seen by him as a defeat. So unofficially he had a hand in the deaths of Americans in the following years.

Lastly, here's another link to his thoughts. He supported a "World Federalist organization", with ties to George Soros.

Enough said.

Remarks on Accepting the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award - World Beyond Borders

[George Sr.]

The TET Offensive was the NVA's largest defeat of the war,and Cronkite made it sound like a major victory for them.Good riddenance to him.

[milprileb]

Being a reporter and being a responsible reporter does not always wash.

Cronkite was wrong when he reported the Tet 68 battles and he made America believe we were losing which was not the case at all.

I never slam the dead unless they are NVA , Viet Cong or folks that support the latter.

This man did wrong by our military: shame on him.

[Vern Humphrey]

Sorry, I have no love lost for Uncle Walter. We won every battle in Vietnam but when he said we lost the war, we lost the war.

Amen. It is Cronkite and those who followed him who are responsible for many of the names on the Black Wall.

Besides, a huge anti-gun liberal.

Amen, again.

Cronkite was the man who said, "If I say it's news, its news." He was an arrogant, lying liberal who led this country astray.