[Keith]

Cronkite is around...and he proved that he's losing it...

[pissant]

He was losing it long before he was retired. He's a commie sympathizing fraud. Always has been. Thus, Rather was the perfect choice for his replacement.

[Conservative Coulter Fan]

"...all this nation truly needs is a Wonko the Sane to erect signs indicating to bewildered Democrats that they have inadvertently wandered into that strange land Outside The Asylum, where people believe in strange things such as God, moral values, personal responsibility and a literal Constitution." --Vox Day, World Net Daily

[Two-Bits]

If Walter had decided another career, we would have won Viet Nam. Embassies bombings, WACO, 9/11, OKC, Initial bombing of WTC, Sexual Revolution, Abortions, NOW Group,
dumbing down of America, and illegal drugs may never had happened either.....

[JeffAtlanta]

I have to agree with part of the speech. The 1970's Walter Cronkite would have gotten Kerry elected. Cronkite was trusted like no other which is why his lies about vietnam were so damaging to the country.

This was also an age where people didn't question what they read in newspapers or heard on TV. The news organizations were free to shape american opinion by selectively reporting the news - with cable and the internet they can't get away with that any more.

I think that CBS was the first news organization in the US to realize that they had this power and they used it during Vietnam. What's kind of sad is that CBS news still thinks that it has this power.

[utahagen]

First of all, the sentence should read, "If Walter Cronkite WERE around..." Secondly, if this assertion be accurate, all that means is that Cronkite would have used his job to throw the election to Kerry. This isn't "news" at all.