....”Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen” W. Cronkite
Is this nonsensical and self-serving or am I just missing something?
You didn’t miss anything. Cronkite was a known communist bastage.
“Is this nonsensical and self-serving or am I just missing something?”
Apparently you are missing something. The full contest of Cronkite’s quote can be read here:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/when-palin-quoted-cronkite.html
In fairness to Palin, however, she didn’t remove the context (though it would have been impossible in twitter). It was already removed in the various blogs she obviously took the quote from. But, as someone pointed out already, no one should take everthing they read on the internet as true, much less the whole truth.