Breaking: Walter Cronkite Dead
July 17th, 2009 at 8:26 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesLiberal ex-journalist dispatched to the great beyond. Joe Jackson suspects foul play.
No disrespect intended, I didn’t even know he was still around.
B-Mac here: I usually don’t add on to a post but when it comes to Satan’s Anchorman, it’s worth noting that he did as much to secure defeat in Vietnam as anyone and the aftermath is still felt today whether you’re a sweatshop worker still toiling under that Soviet-backed communist regime, the bones littering the killing fields of Cambodia, or a Latin American strongman threatening to overthrow a democracy. The precedent stands when a US President sits on his hands.
The interview with NV Colonel Bui Tin from the Wall Street Journal in 1995:
Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi’s victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.
Q: Did the Politburo pay attention to these visits?
A: Keenly.
Q: Why?
A: Those people represented the conscience of America. The conscience of America was part of its war-making capability, and we were turning that power in our favor. America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win.
Of course, the “Conscience of America” is a direct reference to Walter Cronkite. Though they could win one battle they knew they could not win the war without the help of Cronkite. And boy, did they ever get it. He may have been wearing a suit on tv but he might has well have been dressed in a pair of black pajamas. Indeed, Walter Cronkite was the Original Pajamas Media.
It’s no wonder that whenever America faces an enemy - be they an entrenched Marxist dictatorship, a teetering rogue nation, or a pack of Islamofascist hyenas that they can never underestimate what an ally they have in the American media.
For every Cronkite dead, there’s a thousand aspiring J-school students clamoring or MSNBC anchors willing to throw a sympathetic hug on a terrorist or a dictator and spit in our country’s face.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Somehow you just know that when Cronkite died that after he closed his eyes he experienced a moment of unparalleled peace.
When he re-opened them, there were approximately 2 million Cambodians glaring at him with their arms crossed.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:33 am
He set the example for every other America-hating anchor we’ve seen since. He and Peter Jennings are finally together, painting each other up.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Walter Cronkite was a great American…
July 20th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
“America lost because of its democracy; through dissent and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win”.
I guess that you have to believe that American democracy is a bad thing if this guy is saying that it cost us Vietnam. You’ve bought everything else hook, line and sinker. And here I thought it was Cronkite that made us lose the war. Silly me. Thank god that the Right Wing is here to make sure that the American system is destroyed.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Of course ei trolls under the assumption that a misinformed democracy, deceived by the constant drum of a preconceived media narrative, would arrive at the same conclusion as a well-informed democracy.
Bui Tin was speaking to how integral the role of media manipulation was to undermine U.S. domestic support. He was right then and it’s true today.
Except today the media tells you that the government is spending $12 trillion dollars it doesn’t have is the only way to claw our way out of a deficit and that nobody’s taxes are going up. All of our unplanned stimulus money is being thrown away on million dollar hams and bridges to nowhere – minus the actual bridges.
Speaking of swallowing everything whole, I would ask how Obama’s cock tastes but I doubt you’d know considering that you don’t have any tastebuds down the back of your throat.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:47 am
I am totally with Brian. What a turd Walter Cronkite was.
True Americans never watched him as he had pretty much no credibility after the war (except with our traitors). Last time I checked, the news anchor is supposed to report the news…oh, I forgot…injecting one’s opinion as fact now passes for the news…started with old DEAD jerk Walter Cronkite.
How’s all that money and power and influence working out for you NOW???
July 25th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Well look on the bright side,, Now there’s one less OsamaHusseinIslamObama supporter in the world.
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′
(the Terrorist-Uighur-Media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-