Believe Cronkite was early media deep state.
No question. Full derp mode.
This is a speech he gave while accepting "
The Global Governance Award" from the World Federalist Association.
Full Walter Cronkite- World Governance Award - Hillary Congratulates
This is a transcript of the beginning of his speech, but first is a portion found near the end of his speech ...
Some of you may ask, although I think most of you know the answer, why the Senate is not ratifying these important treaties, and why the Congress is not even paying our U.N. dues? Even as with the American rejection, so many years ago now, of the League of Nations after World War I, our failure to live up to our obligations to the U.N. is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation’s conscience. They pander to and are supported by The Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written in a book, a few years ago, that “We should have a world government, but only when The Messiah arrives.” He wrote and literally, “Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the devil!” Well, join me. I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan. This small but well-organized group has intimidated both the Republican Party and the Clinton Administration. It has attacked presidents since F.D.R. for supporting the U.N. Robertson explains that these presidents are the unwitting agents of Lucifer.
I am greatly honored, quite obviously, by the Norman Cousins Global Government, uh, Governance award. I’ll try to get it right, since I will be referring to it frequently of course, from now on. First, well there are two reasons really why I’m particularly grateful and honored by this award. The first, I believe as Norman Cousins did, that the first priority of humankind in this difficult era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of all the world. Second, I feel rather sentimental about this award and this organization because half a century ago, Norman Cousins offered me a job as the spokesman and a Washington lobbyist for the really nascent organization called World Federalist. I was honored. He and Oscar Hammerstein met me in the Waldorf, and twisted my arm quite vigorously, to get me to take the job to take the place of Ted Waller, who was the first lobbyist and a noted supporter of the World Federalist movement.
I chose instead, it turned out, to continue in the world of journalism. For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day with as much fairness as I possibly could and in objective of a manner as possible to achieve. When I had my own strong opinions, I tried to put them aside for the moment in the interest of fairness. I didn’t communicate them, I hoped, to my audience. Now however, now however, my circumstances are considerably different. I’m in a position to speak my mind, and by god, I’m gonna do it. You know, those of us who are living today can truly influence the future of civilization. We can influence whether our planet is going to live or die. Whether it’s going to drift into chaos and violence, or whether through a monumental educational and political effort, a monumental effort, we will achieve a world of peace under a system of law where individual violators of that law are brought to justice.
For most of this fairly long life I have been an optimist harboring a belief that as our globe shrank, as our communication miracles brought us closer together, we would begin to appreciate the commonality of our universal desire to live in peace and that we would do something to satisfy that yearning of all peoples. Today I find it harder to cling to that hope.
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling “civilized”? And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing each another.
While we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war, we see no comparable effort in establishing peace. Meanwhile, emphasizing the sloth in this regard, those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world law and order, a world government if you please, are called impractical dreamers. Those “impractical dreamers” are entitled, it seems to me, to ask their critics, “What is so darn practical about war?” It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen The United Nations as a first step toward a world government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, first, we Americans are going to have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That’s going to be to many a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith, a lot of persuasion for them to come along with us on this necessity. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen. The circumstances were vastly different, obviously. Yet just because the task appears forbiddingly hard, we should not shirk it. We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years, we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic U.N. Federation