1. They were evil.

2. They were opposed, and eventually defeated by the USA's old enemy, the Vietnamese commies.

3. They were supported by many people (mostly REPUBLICAN) in Washington DC, and they were especially supported by the neocons who ran foreign policy during the Reagan Administration and refused to accept the CIA's reports about the evil deeds of the Khmer Rouge.

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This was morally even worse than the Reaganite neocon embrace of juntas and death squads in South America.

WTF? The wingnuts are blaming Cronkite for what Reagan supported?

New Deal Democrat - you congratulate couric on her grilling of palin, which is true, but yet you do not mention her softballing questions at other times. She picks her enemies and grills them and her friends and pats them on the back. If she invited our current VP on i do not know, did not see it, but if she did and had grilled him, she would have found out just how ignorant he is. He says he knows and the mainstream media agrees, but when challenged he constantly makes mistakes, misquotes or just plain doesn't know. The problem with main stream media is that they are decidely biased (as an indy, I have counted and listened as much as I can) and it shows, just check out the softball questions to Obama. He is never challenged and when he avoids answering, they let him. That is poor journalism. whether Cronkite did or not I do not know, but he too made assumptions like he knew. And speaking of softball questioning, how seriously did the media and Cronkite attack President Kennedy for the bay of pigs? Did they criticize the president? Don't know, I was too young to know, but it seems to me that my father, a republican complained that they did not. He was treated like a king in Camelot. So maybe things are not that much worse now. And Hoover spied on Martin Luther King Jr. by orders of the president and Bobby. They were the ones worried he was a communist. Yet the media has long led me to believe it was that evil Hoover. It is scary how badly the media misses the facts and reports falsly the facts. Couldn't be bias could it?

Just listened to your Chuck Todd interview - I generally like him, but well done. However, his point (or that of the Obama Administration) that these investigations become politicized is well taken. I believe that the GOP has been trying to get retribution for Watergate ever since Nixon resigned. The best they could do was Abscam. Since then, the Bush 41 Administration cleared everyone involved in Iran-Contra, as his son did in the Scooter Libby case. The special prosecutor tool was so badly abused by the GOP during the Clinton Administration, when they were demanding a new one every week for some perceived misdeed, that it has become anathema. I hope Holder still moves forward. This may be why Obama is making his big health care push now - he knows that if prosecutions are initiated in Aug, it may be difficult passing this legislation after that.

Regarding Cronkite, I think the reason he is held in such high regard is because he stuck to the facts and was not concerned about charges of bias (mostly from the right) when he knew those facts were correct and fairly reported. Now the MSM is more concerned about getting both sides so as to emphasize conflict, rather than following the facts.

I worked with someone who commanded troops in Cambodia far earlier than the U.S. has acknowledged sending troops. He told me one of the men he commanded enlisted in the Army to avoid a prison stint for murder. He shudders at the thought of this man and his conduct in the field to this day.

If Walter Cronkite should feel guilty, couldn't the same question be posed to, among others, Dick Cheney, El Rushbo or John Bolton, all tough guys I would not want to meet in a dark alley. Maybe if they had been willing to go eye ball to eye ball with the enemy we would have won?

Asking someone which newspapers she reads constitutes a hard question? Gee, I hope you're not in law enforcement!

During the worst days of the Iraq war for me, late 2003, pre- Abu Ghraib, when the establishment media was still sucking up to Rummy, Jon Stewart was really the only broadcast outlet that consistently called the war a disaster. A lot of ironies there. Only a court jester could tell us the truth? The media was only willing to turn against the war when there were nasty pix to peddle?On the otherhand, I have taken great satisfaction listening to Rachel Maddow: she don't believe nothing anybody from the government says about anything. She's also intelligent and witty. My view of journalism is sort of like Bernanke's view of the economy: I see a few green shoots out there, including this nice bit of turf

From the Desk of Walter Cronkite

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Honorary Chairman

When I anchored the evening news, I kept my opinions to myself. But now, more than ever, I feel I must speak out. That’s because I am deeply disturbed by the dangerous and growing influence of people like Pat Robertson and James Dobson on our nation’s political leaders.

Like you, I understand that freedom of speech is a founding principle of our nation, and I respect people with the courage to speak their minds. As a concerned person of faith, however, I have watched with increasing alarm as Religious Right groups manipulate religion to further their intolerant, political agendas. Over the years, they have gained considerable influence at every level of government...on local school boards, in the Administration, the courts, and in Congress. They have shrewdly twisted the traditional healing role of religion into an intolerant, political platform.

This is why I am speaking out today, and why I urge you to speak out, too. It is time we challenge those who equate religious beliefs with partisan politics, and if you agree, there is something you can do about it today

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