Walter Cronkite, R.I.P

...has died at age 92..

My problem with Cronkite is that he decided his subjective opinions were what people needed to hear. As "most trusted man in America" and supposedly objective journalist, his announcement that the Vietnam war was unwinable and that the Tet offensive was a disaster for the ARVN-US forces (instead of just the opposite) reversed the tide of American opinion and led to the American withdrawl, ARVN defeat and a death sentence for millions of people under the Communist boot in SE Asia.

i saw an interview with an intern of his way back when and he sez his famous closing comment came about by accident...at the end of a broadcast someone forgot to hold up the prop card and he just looked into the camera and said, "That's the way it is" followed by the date...

Yeah both he and Robert McNamara are real defeatist loser liberal America haters.