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Cronkite's Offensive History

-Zen Wrote: Jul 25, 2009 2:18 PM

Diana West slanders a good and honorable man. Walter Cronkite told it like it was. The Vietnam War was stalemated and unwinnable. Diana West seems to think if we had stayed a little longer, the War could have been won but for the influence of Walter. Win the war with what? With the exception of elite, highly motivated troops like the marines, airborne, and Special Forces, the war was mostly fought with a draftee army that could not fight its way out of a wet paper bag. It was an army disintegrating in the field. Drug abuse, racial disharmony, “fragging,” of officers and NCO’s were all daily occurrences. The American people honors (not grovels or genuflects) Walter Cronkite because his reporting was accurate and true. Chaka Z.

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Cronkite's Offensive History

It's time for a post-Cronkite post-mortem, but not on the late "icon" himself -- the "most trusted man in America," the "voice of God," "the gold standard," the "proxy for a nation," or, in plainer English, the lush-lived celebrity "anchor" who died this month at age 92. No, the Cronkite post-mortem that's needed is for the zombies who conjured up the hollow rapture and the living dead who fell for it.