Posted on 03/07/2005 6:43:12 PM PST by wagglebee
NEW YORK (AP) - Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather's predecessor at the "CBS Evening News," said Monday that Rather's replacement by Bob Schieffer was overdue.
Rather, 73, ends his run as evening news anchor Wednesday, exactly 24 years after replacing Cronkite. Schieffer, the "Face the Nation" host, will be a temporary fill-in until CBS decides on a permanent replacement.
Cronkite called Schieffer "one of the great television journalists of our time."
"Although Dan did a fine job, I would have liked to have seen (Schieffer) there a long time ago," Cronkite said during an interview on CNN. "He would have given the others a real run for their money."
Cronkite said it was a tribute to Rather that he held on so long.
"It surprised quite a few people at CBS and elsewhere that, without being able to pull up the ratings beyond third in a three-man field, that they tolerated his being there for so long," he told CNN.
But Cronkite did not heavily fault Rather for his role in last September's discredited story about President Bush's military service. Rather anchored the "60 Minutes Wednesday" story.
"We all know he made a mistake by now," Cronkite said. "But would we have done much the same? I would not be sure that I wouldn't have followed my producers and accepted what they had to offer."
Actually, Walter, he broke the law!
He is just as big a scumbag as Rather.
Breaking news!!
The old coot brigade is really piling on ole Dan. I bet it stings. The beauty of it is that they also look bad doing it.
I think Cronkite was even more a lefty than blather. He just didn't have the new media to slap him around.
Well CBS is keeping the Texas thang a going..... Bob Schieffer was born in Austin Texas so Austin is replacing Houston....
Yep, it's kind of like the Iran-Iraq war. No good guys, just bad guys killing each other. A win-win all the way around. It does show, however, just how disliked Rather really is, even among his fellow lying CBS news punks.
And pretty much got away with the bulk of it.
And thank God that creepy old liberal gasbag Cronkite is still retired. They should have replaced him MUCH earlier with a non-Rather type. In fact, just sell the whole network to Russia, Albania, China, or Cuba...some secular humanist Communist country like that where the CBS people would feel more at home.
the ol' MSM crumbles a bit more,...little by little,...hey Dan watch out if Walter invites you to go for a sail!!
Given my druthers, I'd have enjoyed Cronkite replaced by Triumph the Insult Dog in ... oh ... 1960. Then Rather replaced by a 1957 Buick LaSabre, and Scheiffer by a giant squid. Now, we're talkin!
They are trying to distance themselves from Rather and would have been better served with muted praise or silence. They are insulated from criticism, but someone they read is bound to raise the issue.
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***Cronkite said it was a tribute to Rather that he held on so long.***
Har de har har har!!!!
(These newsmen are such old maids!)
***"We all know he made a mistake by now," Cronkite said.***
Everybody is waking us and seeing it was a takedown.
Congrats Freepers & Bloggers
I think we fail to credit Cronkite for something. His comments over many years have indicated that he was troubled by Dan Rather. Dan is a goof who became overly powerful at CBS because he was a darling of the liberals resulting from childish confrontations with Nixon. I recall Cronkite expressing misgivings about Rather going back many years.
Takes an old liberal fart to know an old liberal fart. Maybe Uncle Walt will have Danny boy on his beeeg ol' boat and they can sail away together! *~*
"I'll take the job, Mr. Murrow, but only because this is a great set here at Black Rock...FOR ME TO POOP ON!"
"Then Rather replaced by a 1957 Buick LaSabre,"
"Vroom! Vroom!" *train whistle*
"and Scheiffer by a giant squid."
"And now the news, brought to you by Cthulu."
Where?
Where???
WHERE??!??!?!
... did you get that picture!?!?!??!?!
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