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Former anchor Walter Conkite says C-B-S report about Bush 'embarrassing'
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Posted on 09/24/2004 8:20:20 AM PDT by Happy2BMe

BOSTON Walter Cronkite is calling C-B-S' report on President Bush's National Guard service "embarrassing."On the other hand, he's urging patience until an investigation is done. The long-time C-B-S anchor says after that, people can decide what their reaction should be.

On Monday, Dan Rather, who succeeded Cronkite as C-B-S' main anchor, apologized for relying on questionable documents in a "60 Minutes" story.

The documents are purported to be from one of Bush's commanders in the Texas Air National Guard. They claim the commander ordered Bush to take a medical exam, which he did not. The documents also claim the commander felt pressured to sugarcoat an evaluation of Bush.

C-B-S has promised to give two investigators full access and complete cooperation and to make their final report public.


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Must be pretty bad when Dan is getting it in the behind from the likes of Walter Cronkite.
1 posted on 09/24/2004 8:20:21 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
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To: MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; potlatch; devolve; JohnHuang2; Prime Choice; Registered

Walter Cronkite disses Dan - ping.


2 posted on 09/24/2004 8:21:46 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Just 39 more days until November 2nd.)
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To: Happy2BMe

Maybe it is time for old Uncle Walt to come clean about his own lies while at CBS. Maybe he should start with explaining his Tet Offensive remark.


3 posted on 09/24/2004 8:22:02 AM PDT by Sthitch
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To: Happy2BMe

Walter is p*ssed because it was totally debunked before the lie had been repeated often enough to be seen as truth, and the truth a lie.


4 posted on 09/24/2004 8:22:08 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (At CBS - "We don't just report news - we make it - up.")
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To: Happy2BMe

Cronkite is an authority on embarassing behavior.


5 posted on 09/24/2004 8:22:20 AM PDT by anonymous_user (I CBS, You CBS, We ALL CBS.)
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To: Happy2BMe

My tagline sez it all.


6 posted on 09/24/2004 8:22:20 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS", Fake But Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Happy2BMe
Former anchor Walter Conkite says C-B-S report about Bush 'embarrassing'

Walt has a talent for understatement.

7 posted on 09/24/2004 8:22:20 AM PDT by martin_fierro ('n'at.)
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To: Happy2BMe

A watered-down response from one of the biggest leftists in the business..."embarrassing"...hey, Walter, WHAT THEY DID, AND/OR THEIR ACCOMPLICES DID, IS A MAJOR FEDERAL CRIME. Actually quite a few different crimes have been committed, from forging gov't. documents, to the violation of many FCC Rules and Regulations....ALL FEDERAL OFFENSES!!!

Embarrassing, Walter???


8 posted on 09/24/2004 8:23:21 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Sthitch; Mister Baredog

"Maybe it is time for old Uncle Walt to come clean about his own lies while at CBS. Maybe he should start with explaining his Tet Offensive remark."


Just what I was thinking!


9 posted on 09/24/2004 8:23:57 AM PDT by Kokojmudd
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To: Happy2BMe

Cronkite: "That's the way it is."
Rather: "That's the way I wish it was."


10 posted on 09/24/2004 8:24:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: Happy2BMe

On the other hand, he's urging patience until an investigation is done.

Ummm, walt, what is there to investigate? The documents were forged, baby! Investigation in this case is just another word for cover-up. Sheeesh.


11 posted on 09/24/2004 8:24:56 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Happy2BMe

The most rusted man in America.


12 posted on 09/24/2004 8:24:56 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; MeekOneGOP

13 posted on 09/24/2004 8:25:29 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Just 39 more days until November 2nd.)
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To: Happy2BMe

He's embarrassed because CBS and Baghdad Bob (oops, I mean Dan Rather), got caught. Where is the moral outrage?


14 posted on 09/24/2004 8:25:51 AM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Happy2BMe
Krankheit, n: (German) illness
15 posted on 09/24/2004 8:25:57 AM PDT by Petronski (What did Terri McAuliffe know and when did she know it?)
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To: Happy2BMe

The byline says Boston.
How would it come across if it were accurate, and said Martha's Vineyard.


16 posted on 09/24/2004 8:26:09 AM PDT by ProudVet77 (Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Day - 02NOV2004.)
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To: Happy2BMe
I'm sick of the MSM using Cronkite as some standard of journalistic purity. He was as left-agenda driven as Rather, only a little better at hiding it from his audience.
17 posted on 09/24/2004 8:26:58 AM PDT by HalleysFifth
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To: Kokojmudd

Krankheit will always be at the top of my 'spitting distance' list, for singlehandedly sabotaging the American victory during Tet.


18 posted on 09/24/2004 8:27:18 AM PDT by Petronski (What did Terri McAuliffe know and when did she know it?)
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To: HalleysFifth


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19 posted on 09/24/2004 8:28:19 AM PDT by USA_Soccer (Try a better (free + open source) browser -> Mozilla Firefox @ mozilla.org)
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To: Happy2BMe

Cronkite was and is another Dimocrat suck up.


20 posted on 09/24/2004 8:30:43 AM PDT by hgro (<i>)
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