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The Terrible Truth About Walter Cronkite
https://www.aim.org ^ | July 20, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 05/24/2018 12:32:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9

It is wrong to speak ill of the dead. On the other hand, it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to pretend that Walter Cronkite was the “voice of God” and “universally credible,” as Mara Liasson put it on Fox News Sunday. The terrible truth is that Walter Cronkite symbolized liberal media bias and used that bias with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. His latest cause was world government and the destruction of American sovereignty.

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: bias; cbs; cronkite; fakenews; liberal; media; mediabias; vietnam; waltercronkite
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Thought this a good article, though been a while.
1 posted on 05/24/2018 12:32:01 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

The older folks in my family called him “Red” Walter.
My father still does when conversation about the media come up.


2 posted on 05/24/2018 12:34:21 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: Beowulf9
I remember those days well. The only person who thought Cronkite was God, however, was Cronkite.
3 posted on 05/24/2018 12:34:41 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Beowulf9

I had his number before he died. The argument could be made that he is one of the major factors that led to us losing the Vietnam war.

In my book he’s just one notch above Jane Fonda, and that’s only because so much of what he did is so hard to articulate. He may have been worse.


4 posted on 05/24/2018 12:35:49 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Beowulf9

Mara Liasson is also a terrible person. She’s a disgusting lefty so it’s no wonder she praises the old bastard.


5 posted on 05/24/2018 12:37:13 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Beowulf9

The Cronkite most remember is the man who took off his glasses mourning the fatal attack on JFK. Then others might recall, is declaring Tet a communist victory and that “only negotiations” could end the war.


6 posted on 05/24/2018 12:38:16 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Beowulf9
Cronkite was a con artist and actor—and a total fraud.

Like the old sayings goes "Once you know how to fake sincerity, you've got it made."
 

7 posted on 05/24/2018 12:39:32 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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#5: "Mara Liasson is also a terrible person. "

With those bug eyes and beak she looks more like an insect or some kind of goofy bird.
 

8 posted on 05/24/2018 12:41:36 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Lol That’s true.

She is the equivalent of Eleanor Clift.


9 posted on 05/24/2018 12:43:53 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Theodore R.

After the Battle of Ia Drang valley - our first major engagement Cronkite in a long report on it after it was over said something like “It remains to be seen how long the wives and mothers and the American public will accept seeing their brave boys coming home in caskets.” The FIRST battle!


10 posted on 05/24/2018 12:44:01 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Lefties are better wordsmiths.


11 posted on 05/24/2018 12:44:07 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: robroys woman
In my book he’s just one notch above Jane Fonda ..

Amen

12 posted on 05/24/2018 12:44:18 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Beowulf9

Nothing but a communist pig.


13 posted on 05/24/2018 12:44:28 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: robroys woman

I hear the voice of Tom Moorer growling: “Seems like they turned all of our victories into defeats!”


14 posted on 05/24/2018 12:46:10 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"With those bug eyes and beak she looks more like an insect or some kind of goofy bird. "

Or an alien.


15 posted on 05/24/2018 12:51:41 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: brownsfan

Why aren't I 50 points ahead???

16 posted on 05/24/2018 12:55:18 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: laplata
"Mara Liasson is also a terrible person."

And I'll raise you a Nina Tottenberg and her little jug eared Senator from Illinois what was his name, Paul Simon and between these 2 we ended up with the high tech lynching of Justice Thomas.

17 posted on 05/24/2018 12:55:20 PM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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To: Beowulf9

Walter Cronkite was a self-admitted Communist. He only admitted it after he retired, and did so on the old Larry King Show. All those years as a CBS anchor he was subtly undermining our country.


18 posted on 05/24/2018 12:56:40 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: Theodore R.

The media had a great deal to do with the eventual loss of Vietnam even when the American military basically won every battle fought.


19 posted on 05/24/2018 1:00:42 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: taildragger

You win the hand. Tottenberg is as vile as they come.

There sure are a lot of nasty lefties out there and they’re getting nastier by the day.


20 posted on 05/24/2018 1:01:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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