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2007-11-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Spereque Hupush7905 2007-11-17 06:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Tet was the wakeup for a very young man, myself that what today is called the Main Stream Media [MSM] had become as much a threat as a defender of the republic. That is when Walter Cronkite who up till then I had admired pronounced the effort in Vietnam futile.

For I understood Cronkite had been there in Europe in December 1944 when the âdefeatedâ Germans launched a surprise offensive in the Ardennes of Belgium. The war was about to be over. The Germans were on the run. Or so our political and military leaders let the American public believe. Our intelligence services detected no action upon the enemyâs part to commit itself to this massive assault. The Germans had resorted to hand carried communications in preparation, thus nullifying Ultra, the Allied decryption efforts. The bitter woods of southern Belgium would see the virtual destruction of the 106th US Infantry Division and the largest surrender of American forces since the Philippines in 1942 . It would result in 81,000 KIA casualties, greater than the entire Vietnam War. The fighting went on for nearly two months on the ground the Germans would contest. In the end, the enemy gained no ground and suffered crippling destruction of manpower and equipment. No where in the record of those events have I found where Mr. Cronkite, as a reporter in theater, make the same evaluation of the American effort there as he would concerning Tet and the work in Vietnam. Yet the military results of both offensives upon the enemy were the same. However, the military loses to the Americans and its allies in both battles were substantially less in the second. Here was a man who was an âauthoritativeâ observers to both acts, yet his reporting was without question compromised by personal bias over facts.

As more time passes and more historians of the classical school with far less bias and far more critical analytical skill come to write the history of the 20th Century, the judgment upon the popular chroniclers of contemporary news will be adjudged and that judgment is likely not one they will be proud of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-17 08:11|| 2007-11-17 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Walter Cronkite is a proud and upstanding member of the Greatest Generation.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-17 08:33|| 2007-11-17 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So was Nikita Kruschev, Nimble. Your point?

Posted by Elmolurong the Wide1638 2007-11-17 09:05|| 2007-11-17 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 My Dad was a member of the Greatest Generation as was my 2 uncles. He landed at Normandy and commanded a company from France, to Belgium to Germany. Walter Cronkite couldn't carry his canteen. My Dad never wavered his support for America, its values, its missions and its troops. You can't say the same about Cronkite, Rather, et. al. Writing books doesn't cut it for Brokaw either.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-11-17 12:00|| 2007-11-17 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 re: Walter Cronkite & Co.

God Damn! Someone shoot that old treasonous coot and his acolytes.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-11-17 13:45|| 2007-11-17 13:45|| Front Page Top

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