smells like something died.......
Posted on 07/17/2009 5:48:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," has died. He was 92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness.
He was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
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You don’t seem to remember Wally’s reportage of Tet. Kind of like calling Gettysburg for Lee. If that SOB had been any better at spinning, he’d have been a spider.
As we say in New York, “I’m wich yew!”
CPT ARMOR
MACV 1971
“Well, at least he lived long enough to see a communist enter the oval office.”
I bet it was his dream coming true.
“In the year 2000 WALTER CRONKITE went to speak at a London World Connference in England.
There he publically called for “America’s 11 Southern States to SECEDE from the Union”..!!!”
I wish Obama would extend the offer today.
They certainly SHOULD have egg on their faces. But they've convinced themselves that is was something else. Maybe a “right-wing CIA plot.” My alternative to the sensible and obvious (anticommunist President shot by communist) is that it was “Left-wing CIA Plot.” After all, JFK was anticommunist and a tax cutting supply sider. Affairs aside, he could have been a younger, Democratic party, Ronald Reagan. Now wonder commies in the CIA would want to bump him off.
Charter member of the SBA here,,,
(no turds got away)!
8/26 Arty,,,IFFV,,,67-68(Tet ‘68)...
(Skrooo Wally!)...
smells like something died.......
I’m ticked that Fox interupted Laura Ingraham on BOR for this old liberal bag of air
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Yes, we were too. Turned Fox off and never turned it back on. They want to be douche bags, so can we.
Dan Blather?
Well ya can hope.
The “Silver foot in his mouth” speech was at the 1988 convention, not 1992.
Two birds one stone, it’s brilliant! :’)
I used to watch them also, many people did. There were only 3 alphabet stations to choose from. Brinkley looked so much younger than Huntley, but he was only 9 years younger.
And that TV Guide was owned by Walter J Annenberg (a Republican pillar, though some here would probably call him a RINO), for which he charged 15 cents, probably had the largest circulation of any mag, and whose legacy and wealth have been highjacked by the Obama leftists.
Thank you for your service.
One less Commie to worry about.
Thanks!
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.
Bad man, good death.
You sir, are a troll.
Please take your languid liberal platitudes and go back to your friends at DU.
As a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Enduring Freedom, I take offense to your exalted opinions about which wars should and should not have been fought.
If you have a combat record, I will reconsider what I just wrote.
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