Posted on 07/17/2009 5:15:12 PM PDT by Mmogamer
Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite has died at age 92, The New York Times reports.
I wonder if he was always gung-ho to go after the Germans, or if, like most of the American reds in that era, thought the Nazis were fine when they were aligned with Stalin, only turning against them after the Germans invaded mother Russia.
Pushing for More Gun Control
Helps with Brady Center Fundraiser
A liberal group opposed to the NRA, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, hosted an 80th birthday party fundraiser for humorist Art Buchwald in September, 2005 in Washington at the French embassy. The event’s “Honorary Birthday Committee” was studded with media names, including CBS anchor Walter Cronkite.
Lends His Name to Handgun Control Inc.
Dozens of celebrities, as well as Walter Cronkite, endorsed a Handgun Control ad advocating more gun control. The cultural and media elite all favor more gun control as demonstrated by a who’s who list of celebrities and media stars who signed a June 9, 1999 full page ad in USA Today from Handgun Control, Inc. Cronkite was amongst the signers of the “Open Letter to the National Rifle Association.”
Cronkites betrayal of this country through his Viet Nam reports and the above, preclude me from offering condolences on the passing of an evil puppet.
The discussion there has a lot of comments about his propagandizing as well, especially WRT his reporting on the Viet Nam war.
The Soviet Kool Aid was poured out generously for the American media during that time, and old Walter drank his share.
Walter surrounded himself with sycophants who would endlessly sing his praise. To those of us who knew him from personal experience he wasn't ever close to sainthood.
The real Cronkite...
...was always, in his own mind, always above the peasants, and frankly a pompous ass.
Quoted text from the Preface to:
CRONKITE, WALTER A Reporter's Life New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1997, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0394578791) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, viii, 384 pp. illus.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition."
Same here. I watched the evening news every night with my dad and was so brainwashed that I thought in that Vietnam was a bad place where men were sent to die. It wasn't until I looked at a map in grade school that I discovered that it was an actual country. Imagine my brain trying to wrap around that. I almost believe that Wally laughed every night after the camera turned off, chuckling to his cronies about f****ng the Americans yet again. I heard about him croaking late last night. I told my buddy, "You just made a good day even better". I guess the best I can muster is 'Good riddance Wally!'
My relief for this country.
Wow, a troll.
And a stupid one at that.
That’s the way it NEVER was!
They would have had “Uncle Walter” write the texts for “end of life” care.
He was a liberals, liberal!
He was a Soviet Apologist and he undermined morale in the wake of the Tet Offensive.
It is obvious whose side he was not on, he was not on ours!
Past, present, or future.
It is amazing the amount of trust & confidence from the public, from the president, this guy enjoyed. Check out what Ann Coulter will have to say about him.
My words exactly!
Much has been said about Cronkite’s pronouncement that the war was lost leading to a downturn in public sentiment about the war, but I think time has clouded our memories of the context in which Cronkite’s comments were made.
At the time of the Tet Offensive, the public had already lost confidence in the war by several years. Protests had been going on for a couple of years by then. Johnson had all but given up on the war being successful (or at least trying to make it so). In fact, he threw up his hands and decided not to run for re-election.
Our liberal history teachers have all but erased the fact that Democrats escalated this war and turned it into a meaningless quagmire. It took Nixon to get us out (and he started planning our exit with victory at first, then succumed to the drumbeat from the public to just pull out). If you listen to liberals yakking, you would think that Nixon got us into the war and kept us there for a decade. It’s amazing sometimes how Kennedy and Johnson’s involvement are almost forgotten.
Many can argue whether we really belonged in that war. Personally, I don’t think we should have been there (or Korea - or Iraq for that matter). We have a propensity for getting more involved in local politics overseas than we should in my opinion. But in the end, Cronkite had the right sentiment with his pronouncement - and remember, he made it against the Democrat president that had shed the most blood there.
Cronkite certainly was a liberal nut sometimes, but I fondly remember him for his reporting through some of the most turbulent times in our history - and some of our most triumphant. His reports on the moon landings are classics.
I say: Rest in Peace Mr. Cronkite. He was the last of the greats. The profession of journalism crashed and crumbled behind him as he left in 1981.
Perfect!!!!!
I think the several messages removed by the moderator says it all about what people think of the “most trusted man”.
Right on brother. I feel the same. Vetnam vet 1970.
Walter Cronkite, the Godfather of leftist biasim in media.
RIP anyway.
Another shovel-ready liberal.
I hope St. Peter is explaining it all very carefully.
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