Talk:Walter Cronkite/@comment-4682609-20140812062151/@comment-1672596-20150315032024

My politics actually have little to do with my condemnation of him. It's the fact that he willfully lied to people just to force America to abandon Vietnam, got a lot of soldiers and Vietnamese people killed, and as a result forced many people to flee Vietnam on boats, dying at sea as a result. Had I been a liberal/left-winger and he was a conservative and he did that, guess what, I STILL would have called him out on it for basically doing something truly despicable and self-centered like that. If anyone made it a political discussion, it was him by not keeping his liberal politics out of the newsroom and trying to create news instead of simply reporting it. He truly deserves that condemnation. I would have expected you to at least believe in the truth, rather than thinking anything statement, even if true, is just to score political points.