 Remember back in Vietnam, for those of us who are of a certain age, the phrase was, if you've lost Walter Cronkite, you've lost America. When Cronkite came out against what was going on in Vietnam, he said, we've lost Vietnam, although actually we won the Tet Offensive rather handily. But that's when Cronkite announced we'd lost it. And thus the American sheeple said, okay, Walter Cronkite says, I guess it must be true.