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| Thanks, Uncle Walter |
| 2006-07-28 |
| Wherein Walter Cronkeit is thanked for giving birth to Fox News. "Cultural artists." Heh heh... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Walt's real problem, like many others today, is that he extrapolated the entire state of the war from a VERY limited set of observations. He saw one or two villages all shot up, some VC caused destruction in the city, and talked to a few very tired troops and decided then and there that TET was the breaking point of the American effort. As a "newsman" he knew better. Nothing so sad as a fact read wrong. He didn't see the mass graves of the Hue citizenry (brought to you courtesy of the NVA thank you very much) and couldn't have known, and probably didn't care, about the complete destruction of a significant number of NVA/VC outfits. During TET Giap committed everything he had, men, material, intelligence everything - he completely shot his wad. And failed miserably. But no, Walty decided that since he was there, he had a far clearer vision than that our command. Pompass fool - shoulda stuck to the space program. |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-07-28 11:21 |
| #4 The interesting thing about Walt and Tet was that Walt had covered WWII in Europe and witnessed the Battle of the Bulge unfold. In both cases the American command had been singing the song that everything was well in hand and in both cases they were surprised. The casualty figures in comparison with Tet were far greater. An entire American division was basically destroyed in the German offense and several were rendered spent. Not the case in Tet. The Germans like the NVA/VC ended up with no more than they started with. Walt classified the Bulge as a victory [watch on old '20th Century' documentary he voiced over]. As for the million plus Cambodians [iirc the entire population wasnÂ’t more than 4 or 5 million], being a lefty means you never have to say you are sorry. |
| Posted by: Omang Crineter9522 2006-07-28 11:16 |
| #3 I think you might want to ask about 2 million Vietmanese (killed or placed in 'reeducation camps' after the war) and 10 million [mostly dead] Cambodians about that. Uncle Walt was very much involved in undermining American public opinion of the Vietnam War. Including showcasing the Tet offensive as an 'american disaster' when it was anything but. After that the North Vietmanese were on the verge of talking a peace treaty -- until they saw 'Uncle Walt' calling the offensive a 'disaster' for the south and americans. Back then there were no blogs or internet to call Walt a liar or question his 'news' like they did with Rather's National Guard story. Uncle Walt has a lot of blood on his hands. I too had good feeling about him when I was growing up - and the MSM had a monopoly on news. But after learning the truth about what 'really' happened back then I changed my mind. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-07-28 10:58 |
| #2 I have decidedly mixed feelings about old Uncle Walt. He's a moonbat now, and he's always been an ideological opponent of much I hold dear, and less than honest about his biases . . . but some of my fondest childhood memories are of watching the early space program on live TV, and Uncle Walt was the narrator. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-07-28 10:39 |
| #1 For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thanks, indeed, Walt. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2006-07-28 10:20 |