I'm gonna hafta disagree with you on this one.  Vehemently.

I find the Whoopster quite attractive.  I enjoy that she is who she has chosen to be (fashion-wise).  And although her eyebrows are non-existent, her eyes are quite lovely.  She is talented, too.  As an actress.  I prefer her big screen work to the small screen.  And she is an intelligent person.  She speaks far better and more convincingly than Obama EVER could and, for the most part, she does a good job.  She is a wonderful storyteller.  She needs to refrain from discussing politics, though.  At least in public.

Sorry, mattm.  Hadda do it.  I like the Whoopster.  I don't like her partisan games or revisionist history lessons, though.

Because she the most talented performer on the planet....

Even if Cronkite hadn't already outed himself as having a Liberal bias, the mere fact that Woofi praises his lack of bias would make me reexamine any thoughts I might have that he could be trusted.  Her lack of credibility and lack of sense are so complete that if she calls someone credible, they automatically lose the benefit of the doubt.

As far as I'm concerned, it's like she has the credibility cooties...

The now disclosed Operation Mockingbird (1950's to 1960's era) shows us how major newscasters, publishers, television and radio reporters secretly received money to promote the government point of view.

Up until he turned on the government with his Tet Offensive lies, and broadcasts after that, Walter Cronkite was one of those paid broadcasters. Why he turned against the US government is still not completely clear.

Some of the other journalists involved included: William Paley (CBS), C.D. Jackson (Fortune Magazine), Henry Luce (Time Magazine and Life Magazine), Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star), Hal Hendrix (Miami News), Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal), James Copley (Copley News Services) and Joseph Harrison (Christian Science Monitor)

Why did Cronkite suddenly turn? Did he demand more money and was refused? Did the KBG (which knew all about the program and realized that US media personalities were for sale to the highest bidder?) offer him more money to work for them? We don't yet know, but we will in time.

The very big question now is: are media people still for sale to the highest bidder to promote a particular point of view? Is the Obama administration buying off media people as was done years ago to promote the Obama policies?

We can't expect the media to to investigating reporting on themselves, so we will never get the answer from them.

Here are some sites describing Operation Mockingbird. Make up your own mind.

http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=7246

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/ciadisinfoinaction28mar05.shtml

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mockingbird.htm

No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.

I don't know if you can blame him for the entire failure, because it appears there are some questions about what the strategy was.

My dad is a Vietnam Vet, and he says the book "On Strategy" by Colonel Summers is a very good book.

 http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Critical-Analysis-Vietnam-War/dp/0891415637

What you can probably blame Cronkite for is being biased.  His facts don't seem to jive with what happened with the Tet Offensive.  As a result Victor Charlie was pretty much wiped out.  That is a devastating defeat and should be reported as a devastating defeate for Victor Charlie, rather than Cronkite acting like he is a military expert.  During WWII before the Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Offensive, the Allies had failed with Market Garden, and there was a lot of intense fighting in the Hurtgen Forest and was pretty much a stalemate.  However, after the Battle of Bulge the Allies dealt a tremendous blow to the Germans.  There were no media reports coming out after the Battle of the Bulge saying Americans did their best, but they are stuck in a quagmire and should leave Europe.  A few months after the Battle of the Bulge, the war in Europe was over.

From the link below in regards to an interview with a NVA officer who knows General Giap very well.

"Q: What was the purpose of the 1968 Tet Offensive?A: To relieve the pressure Gen. Westmoreland was putting on us in late 1966 and 1967 and to weaken American resolve during a presidential election year.
Q: What about the results?

A: Our losses were staggering and a complete surprise;. Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for re-election. The second and third waves in May and September were, in retrospect, mistakes. Our forces in the South were nearly wiped out by all the fighting in 1968. It took us until 1971 to re-establish our presence, but we had to use North Vietnamese troops as local guerrillas. If the American forces had not begun to withdraw under Nixon in 1969, they could have punished us severely. We suffered badly in 1969 and 1970 as it was."

http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/north.asp

As you can see this affected Johnson.  Left wing college professors who wear Che shirts don't teach that Ho Chi Minh was a dictator, but the average people of North Vietnam couldn't vote out Ho Chi Minh like the average people of the US could vote out Johnson.  Also, from the link below in regards to dictator Ho Chi Minh.

"Ho made other mistakes. It was he who wholeheartedly adopted a Stalinist political and economic model for Vietnam. Thus, there was the development of heavy industry, hasty collectivization, the elimination of the bourgeoisie, the starting of concentration camps and the mistreatment of intellectuals. All those policies led to disaster." http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/ho_chi_minh1.html

What's Ho Chi Minh doing setting up concentration camps?  I thought Ho Chi Minh was into human rights since left wing college professors who wear Che shirts talk about how awesome he was.  And what is Ho Chi Minh doing mistreating intellectuals?  It couldn't be that smart people could realize that Communism is a fraud, and then Ho and friends would mistreat them?

Ever wonder why there weren't large numbers of South Vietnamese going to North Vietnam?  It's the same reason people weren't migrating from West Europe to East Europe during the Cold War, and the reason large numbers of Koreans aren't going from South Korea to North Korea.  The answer is that the Communists aren't the swell and great people left wing college professors who wear Che shirts make them out to be.  If Communism was so great, large numbers of South Vietnamese wouldn't have fled in 1975.  I believe South Vietnamese make up the largest number of refugees in the world, and if Communism was so great the North Vietnamese wouldn't have had to send all of those South Vietnamese to re-education camps, because they all should have seen what utopia Communism is so  they wouldn't have had to be re-educated.