Walter has been a little off his rocker the past few years.... Get ready everyone for the MSM spin machine. They have been in shock the last few hours, now they realize its time to take a new tack and spin this as well... Problem for the MSM is enough Americans are smart enough to realize the truth from the spin.
Past few years? Try forever. He was the original Ted Koppel, emphasizing death, not accomplishment, reporting only on the negative, an original founding member of the "Blame America First" crowed.
What Spiro Agnew called the "effete corps of intellectual snobs", the "nattering nabobs of negativism", "querilous critics".
Here's Agnew complaining about network TV press coverage in 1969 :
"When ... President [Nixon] completed his address -- an address, incidentally, that he spent weeks in the preparation of -- his words and policies were subjected to instant analysis and querulous criticism. The audience of 70 million Americans gathered to hear the President of the United States was inherited by a small band of network commentators and self-appointed analysts, the majority of whom expressed in one way or another their hostility to what he had to say.
It was obvious that their minds were made up in advance. Those who recall the fumbling and groping that followed President Johnson’s dramatic disclosure of his intention not to seek another term have seen these men in a genuine state of nonpreparedness. This was not it.
One commentator twice contradicted the President’s statement about the exchange of correspondence with Ho Chi Minh. Another challenged the President’s abilities as a politician. A third asserted that the President was following a Pentagon line. Others, by the expressions on their faces, the tone of their questions, and the sarcasm of their responses, made clear their sharp disapproval."
hear his speech about "network commentators" here (past it in your browser) :
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clips/politicalspeeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.mp3