The Opposite of a Cronkite Moment

Many people say the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war was when Walter Cronkite (the Most Trusted Man in America!) said so on live TV. This was after the Tet Offensive, a battle the the US media erroneously portrayed as a massive defeat (sound familiar).

Yesterday and today the PuffHo has been running the headline:

NY Times Baghdad Bureau Chief: US Effort In Iraq Will Likely “Fail”...

The headline links to an Editor and Publisher piece about John Burns saying so on Bill Mahers show.

I guess the out-of-touch folks at Arianna's site think this means anything to the 99.9% of the world who don't read her site and the 50% of us in America who don't believe a damn thing the Times or their correspondents say.

40-years ago, the NY Times and their writers words were taken as gospel, as was the word of men such as Cronkite, Brinkley and the like. Thanks to incidents such as the Rather memo incident and the blatant anti-Americanism of the Times, those days are long, long gone.

Good try, Arianna, only you and the rest of the Howard Dean left think that the words of a Times correspondent means anything in 2006.

This is not a Walter Cronkite moment.