Lou Bricano <l...@cap.con> wrote in news:OvZnM.7479$PbF4...@fx07.iad:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/did-the-news-media-led-by-walte
> r-cronkite-lose-the-war-in-vietnam/2018/05/25/a5b3e098-495e-11e8-827e-1
> 90efaf1f1ee_story.html
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/07/09/seeing-it-now
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> And no, LBJ did not say, "If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle
> America."
"Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty
uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something
now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness.
Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little
something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a
difference... I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two
hundred years"."
> The reason the Tet offensive began to shift American public opinion on
> the war is that it wasn't supposed to happen at all. If America had
> been winning the war the way the administration *and* our military
> leadership had been lying to us, the Tet offensive *could not have
> happened.* The war was, as Cronkite — who had gone to Vietnam to
> see for himself — effectively at a stalemate.
Thanks to traitors like John Kerry who eventually got kicked out like
cocaine abuser Hunter Biden did.