News, FBI files discuss Cronkite aiding Vietnam protesters. (enemy, soldiers, crime)

[burdell]

Originally Posted by sanrene

This does not surprise me in the least. He was a far leftist - and that is what they do best, enabling and supporting US enemies in the same vein of Hanoi Jane.

FBI files discuss Cronkite aiding Vietnam protesters - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2067 - broken link)

Have a big problem with anyone telling the truth, don't ya?

Do you have even a clue what the word allegedly means? A word that figures prominently in the article you cited?

Walter Cronkite should be hailed as a hero for trying to expose the lying BS the perpetrators of that needless, purposeless war tried to spread.

[uggabugga]

Well, so much for wally's vaunted objectivity.
Another leftist hero, permanently stained.

[ovcatto]

Collaborate?

Seems like pretty much SOP in the new business...

FBI files discuss Cronkite aiding Vietnam protesters - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100514/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2067 - broken link)

...even if the "informant" was one hundred percent accurate.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

Well, so much for wally's vaunted objectivity.
Another leftist hero, permanently stained.

He was just trying to defend the Constitution, along with all the protesters - something the military had taken a sworn oath to do.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by sanrene

I guess the idea of an independent, objective, non-collaborating media has lost support.

I guess it also depends on what "side" one might be on.

Seems like you bean on the wrong side of the Constitution most of your life.

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by cuebald

He acted due to his innate humanity.

Then he should have resigned and entered a monastery, or ran for political office.

He abused his power and position, which makes him no different than Nixon.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

Well, so much for wally's vaunted objectivity.
Another leftist hero, permanently stained.

BULL!

IF you place much value in allegations: BULL!

[cuebald]

Originally Posted by Mircea

Then he should have resigned and entered a monastery, or ran for political office.

He abused his power and position, which makes him no different than Nixon.

With the possible exception that Cronkite's actions didn't kill thousands of troops unnecessarily to save his political ass.

Unless you can prove otherwise, of course.

I'll be right here when you find the link.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by cuebald

With the possible exception that Cronkite's actions didn't kill thousands of troops unnecessarily to save his political ass.

Unless you can prove otherwise, of course.

I'll be right here when you find the link.

Don't hold your breath. The only thing Walter was ever guilty of was not buying the tripe the government was selling at the time

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by burdell

Hung for what?

Telling the truth?

No surprise that gets the NeoConfused up in arms.

I think he should've gotten a medal. It's the lying POSs like Westmoreland who should've been hung

What Cronkite did was far from the truth. He, like the rest of the media, discarded thier responsibility for objectivity and chose a political side. In doing so, they "changed" the truth to suit thier needs.

A famous photo shoot of Dan Rather tells the tale. In the second siege of Kehsahn, one military transport plane was shot down. One. Dan Rather and his crew shot that plane from many different angles to give the impression of multiple crashes, and then started his "report", "I stand here is a graveyard of airplanes at Kehsahn".

From that point on, the media in the US has become the propaganda wing for liberalism and has ceased to be an objective source of information.


Yes- Walter Cronkite should have been hung. But again, now that he is dead, being drawn and quartered and displaying his head on the flagpole of the capital would suffice.