Comments on: Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968

By: ice maker machine

ice maker machine — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:43:23 +0000

It is a complete farce, but apparently it's one many Iranians believe in. Well Iran doesn't really differ all that much from the modus operandum in many countries in that respect, but it does very much so in others. You can despise that stuff without actually advocating blowing it up.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:21:27 +0000

I would have had a lot more respect for Cronkite if he had come out against the Vietnam intervention in 1965 then in 1968. I suspect he was motivated by self-interest. In 1965 few Americans would have supported such a stance but it was clear by 1968 that the winds had shifted. Cronkite was simply responding to this change. Stepping on toes isn't good for your career in the media.

By: DrFix

DrFix — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:43:40 +0000

It'll be a cold day in hell thats for sure. You have to go overseas to read or SEE anything that disturbs the Stepfordian experiment played out daily on the American public. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear already use their faculties to seek out the truth. Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.

By: DrFix

DrFix — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:37:30 +0000

Talking heads on the boob tube are merely highly paid actors at the behest of large corporate interests. Wedging supposedly "serious" moments in between non-stop sensory barrages of advertising and brain damaged "entertainment" is no sign of sincerity. Why believe anything these clowns say?

By: Matt Barganier

Matt Barganier — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:54:57 +0000

That's correct. The title has been changed.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:47:56 +0000

The speech was given on February 27, 1968, not "6/2768".

By: liberranter

liberranter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:51:07 +0000

As insipid as Cronkite was, I'm still waiting for day that one of his contemporary successors makes a similar "we are mired in stalemate" statement about Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan on a major national "news" network. Since the news media are today wholly owned and completely controlled by the State and its corporate proxies, such an utterance is about as likely to be forthcoming as Osama bin Laden making a public declaration of his conversion to fundamentalist Christianity.

By: DK2

DK2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:08:18 +0000

Sad but true couscous.

By: couscous

couscous — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:54:37 +0000

But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as ~~an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could~~ a failed colonial power who murdered millions of people in a desperate attempt to avoid admitting defeat. Fixed!

By: Rad Vucov

Rad Vucov — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:35:35 +0000

I just want to add some concern regarding the 'most trusted man in America'
During the last war in former Yugoslavia, as retired person, he joined the
anti-Serb hysteria i one of his interviews. So goes my trust in his integrity.
Rad Vuckov