[Colonel Kangaroo]

A touching piece about the intimate relationship between Uncle Walter and a whole generation, Generation X, forever destined to be known as Generation Cronkite.

[elcid1970]

This babyboomer Vietnam vet thinks Cronkite was and is sh*t!

Thought it when I was there and think the same now.

[massgopguy]

One of his colleagues was lauding him back when he retired. he told a story of how they were at the lunch place where all the newshounds frequented. He said a fire engine came roaring by and everyone sat there except Cronkite who grabbed a pad and paper and gave chase. I think the rest of the story would have noted that Cronkite pulled a Chew and Screw.

[TexasCajun]

Did they bury Uncle Walt someplace in France?

[Argus]

the death of former correspondent and newscaster Walter Cronkite gripped the entire nation last week and continues to do so.

Sorry, I'm about as un-gripped as possible.

[Artemis Webb]

What a bunch of horsecrap. I was born in 1960 and my memories of Cronkite are threefold:

1. Hosting “You Are There” on Saturday mornings.
2. His myopic American body count during the Vietnam War.
3 My father proclaiming at a high decibel level that Cronkite was, “nothing but a Goddamn communist” and was to be replaced by John Chancellor and NBC.

[BeerLover NYC]

I was born in 1958 and I do remember Cronkite very well. But as far as him having a real effect on me, I really can’t say that.

[Jim from C-Town]

“A touching piece about the intimate relationship between Uncle Walter and a whole generation, Generation X, forever destined to be known as Generation Cronkite.”

Horse Sh*t. Generation X is commonly referred to as the Generation following the The Baby Boomers, (1946-1964)AKA “The Greatest Pain in the Ass Generation.”

Generation X is generally referred as those born between 1965 - 1980. The members of this generation would have ranged in age from a maximum age of 16 and a minimum age of less than 1 year old at the time that Cronkite retired. The one thing that all Baby boomers have in common is a conscious memory of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush as presidents, and the fall of the Soviet Union.

The idea that anyone in My generation would be morning the loss of a person whom they had little to no conscious memory of is ridiculous on its face.

[3niner]

Walter Cronkite mainstreamed lying by the MSM.

[3niner]

The leftists have shown how much they’ve idolized MJ and Uncle Walter. MJ might have been the crazier, but Uncle Walter was far more destructive.

[C19fan]

Cronkite reitred in 1981. I was 13 at that time. I have faint memories of watching him. I suppose I can be called more Generation Rather in a weird way. I realized as I grew older, say before I graduated from college, how biased Rather and his ilk were and he turned me off to watching network news forever.

[FreedomPoster]

Walter Cronkite, John Kerry, Jane Fonda, and many others like them bear a large part of the burden of having caused the deaths and brutalization of many South Vietnamese in re-eduction camps, deaths of many more fleeing communist tyranny as Boat People, and the deaths of millions in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

Walter was a newsreader with a warm, assuring, grandfatherly persona. Don’t mistake his having this for a reason for him to be someone you should like.

[The Great RJ]

Article in today’s Sioux Falls Argus Leader (sorry they prohibit links) that George McGovern seriously considered asking Walter Cronkite to be his vice presidential running mate in 1972. Cronkite later is to have said he would have accepted McGovern’s offer.