Posted on 11/09/2004 8:47:03 PM PST by Paul Atreides
Walter Cronkite, who once remarked that Dan Rather, his successor as anchor of the CBS Evening News, should have been fired after he walked off the set in 1987 when his newscast was delayed by a tennis broadcast, has enlarged upon his previous criticism of Rather's discredited report on George W. Bush's National Guard service. Asked in an interview in the upcoming edition of Details whether he had ever come close to making a mistake like Rather's, Cronkite responded: "Fortunately, I don't know about the close times, and I'm sure there must have been some. But I never had a failure quite like that, where my sources actually turned out to be wrong, or not the sources they claimed to be."
He'd o' done it. He just didn't think of it first.
There is no telling what ol' Walt got away with, in the days before the Internet and Talk Radio.
No one care what you think, Uncle Walter. So why don't you go back to dribbling your tapioca pudding down your chin and stinking up your Depends.
Why no, ole' uncle Walt would never do something as heinous as Rather, but of course he didn't bat an eye when charging that Karl Rove was behind the production & distribution of the Bin Hidin tape just prior to the election.
Cronkite ruled the airwaves back when the old media was the only media. He was completely unaccountable, and there was nobody to fact-check or even criticize him.
We will never know how many forgeries and false witnesses Cronkite and his contemporaries paraded before the American public night in and night out. I bet it was tons.
Let's not forget his frolicking with Bubba and Bubbette, at Martha's Vineyard.
We should just let Andy Rooney sort this out...
He obviously ain't gonna 'fess up either!
A generation was brought up plopped in front of the black & white Philco, RCA Victor, and we all accepted the newscasts as Gospel. Not until the internet evolved did we find out it was just bullchips.
Well, Cronkite got away with portraying the Tet Offensive as a loss for the US and South Vietnamese. I think that even trumps the phony national guard documents.
Hah, Cronkite's (Krankheit's) paroxysm for the truth is a stretch. And "most trusted" is from the same organization that brought us the "Exit Polls".
Wrong then, wrong now, wrong tomorrow!
Why Walt...if we only knew then what we know now about the media....guess in hindsight we were pretty gullible, but not anymore.
Another thing we'll never know - through his giving aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese and his demoralizing of our troops and the public back home with his propagandizing, how many of the names on the Wall can we lay at "Uncle Walter's" feet?
translation: "Sure, I lied all the time- just prove it.
Huntley-Brinkley Report blew him away anyway. And he wasn't half the newsman Douglas Edwards and John Cameron Swayze were either.
If it weren't for Kerry, Kennedy, Michael Moore, and a few thousand others, I'd give Cronkite the moniker of "Dumbest Liberal Propagandist in the US".
Like being called ugly by a frog.
In fact, Cronkite was responsible for telling a vicious lie about Barry Goldwater during the 1964 campaign.
Cronkite reported on multiple occasions that Goldwater had not attended JFK's funeral (which was true) and intimated that Goldwater had instead been attending a campaign event.
The reality was that Goldwater was not at JFK's funeral because he was attending the funeral of his mother-in-law.
Cronkite also falsely reported that when asked about JFK's assassination, Goldwater's response had been a terse "No comment."
Cronkite and his cronies at CBS served the same role for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 that Dan Rather tried to fulfill for John Kerry in 2004.
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