Posted on 06/18/2009 6:29:46 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Report: News Legend Walter Cronkite Gravely Ill
By TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
Updated 9:00 PM EDT, Thu, Jun 18, 2009
American journalism legend, Walter Cronkite, is nearing death and CBS News has been scrambling to update the 92-year-old's obituary, Mediabistro.com reported Thursday.
The former anchor of "CBS Evening News" is gravely ill, according to TVNewser, a news blog on Mediabistro.com that cited several sources at CBS News. The Los Angeles Times reported that rumors surrounding Cronkite's health began swirling when CBS began calling other top TV anchors for quotes and comments on Cronkite's career.
CBS News declined to comment on Cronkite's condition. He was once known as "Most Trusted Man in America" when he anchored the network's prime-time newscast for 19 years -- famously ending the broadcast with the sign-off of "and that's the way it is."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
Well, Walter is still alive, so I hope he gets well soon.
I dislike WC also, but he had only one vote. It is the sheeple that elect the reps that have destroyed our America.
If I were him and I knew what the current generation was doing to my old company, I’d be gravely ill too.
Agreed, FRiend, but the Leftists KNOW that the sheeple are easily led, and their calculated lies are designed to cash in on their foolishness.
Hey Wally, what’s the matter? Did someone remind you who won the Tet Offensive?
Amen!
He is a liberal but I can’t remember him ever making stories up to inflict political damage the way Dan Blather did. I never respected him for going public with his far left views after he retired.
Wow. Is this DU?
Or that's the way he wanted us to think it was. It just goes to show that a few misguided fools can derail the greatest nation in history.
Kind of sounds like the current situation, doesn't it?
If you don't like it, TOUGH.
Place your bets, Ladies & Gentlemen, on the duration of the MSM orgasm after his passing. How many days of nauseating tributes and specials will we be subjected to? 3? 5? Do I hear 10?
He gave comfort and aid to the enemy during his broadcasts on the Vietnam War. The blood of thousands of America’s finest young men is on his hands.
He was very good at gaining the trust of viewers. A skillful propagandist, indeed.
Uncle Walter. I once met him in person, when we went aground in a lobster boat on some rocksoff of Bear Island in Maine’s East Penobscot Bay. As we were puzzling what to do, out came a boat with:
Buckminster Fuller,
Walter Cronkite,
Dr. Benjamin Spock,
and Eliot Porter.
They very kindly helped us get our boat off of the rocks and check it out, and then we continued on our way. So those guys were not totally evil.
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