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Legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite dies at 92
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/17/09 | AP

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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61 posted on 07/17/2009 6:37:04 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: NormsRevenge

RIPieces, you commie.


62 posted on 07/17/2009 6:37:28 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: BigCinBigD

MacNamara was down there waiting for his pal, Walter.


63 posted on 07/17/2009 6:39:53 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: DocRock

I know this has been on before, but I think I will start a new thread with this.

It seems appropriate.


64 posted on 07/17/2009 6:40:12 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Ted Grant

Oh, I don’t know, Nixon overwhelmed anti-war McGovern even 4 years after Tet. The Vietnamization of the war actually arguably was succeeding until Watergate and the Democrat betrayal of the South Viet Namese, which was Cronkite’s really destructive act, as far as I’m concerned.


65 posted on 07/17/2009 6:40:26 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: rlmorel

Holy cr@p! By this speech Cronkite proved himself even more deluded and evil than I could ever have believed from his Vietnam record alone.

Of course, none of Cronkite’s proposed radical transformations in the world social and economic order would have affected his lifestyle in the slightest. He owned a large sailboat and kept weapons for defense on board.

Hypocrisy,anyone?


66 posted on 07/17/2009 6:41:17 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: NormsRevenge

One of the pioneers of media bias bites the dust.

I don’t have much of a memory of him, but from everything I’ve read and heard, he did his best to make sure we lost the war in Vietnam. A war that my father fought in.

Good riddance...


67 posted on 07/17/2009 6:41:42 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: chevydude26
stop it with the three’s nonsense...the guy was 92 with cancer...i’m pretty sure this was more than expected

Doesn't exclude dying of old age- just dying. I wager that Mickey Rooney will be on deck soon.

68 posted on 07/17/2009 6:42:28 PM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: al baby

NWO goon.see ya!


69 posted on 07/17/2009 6:42:39 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: NormsRevenge

He was a closet liberal/leftist. Several years after retiring, he said the US should cede some sovereignty to the United Nations. I’m sure others have many more examples.

Andy Rooney chided Dan Rather for letting his liberalism show. He said something to the effect that Cronkite and Rooney were just as liberal, but they didn’t let it show. “Your not supposed to let it show.” Modern liberalism is built on a foundation of lies that they tell and believe themselves.


70 posted on 07/17/2009 6:43:36 PM PDT by ChessExpert (The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress. What is it today?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Some people “grow in office.”

Walter Cronkite “shrank in office.”


71 posted on 07/17/2009 6:43:58 PM PDT by cookcounty (http://www.stumpedagain.wordpress.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

...And that’s the way it was, July 17, 2009.


72 posted on 07/17/2009 6:44:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: taxtruth

PS!Be glad when Ted Turner bites the dust also.


73 posted on 07/17/2009 6:44:37 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: elcid1970

It was a real eye-opener for me when I read it. I could hardly believe it.

What is more shocking...there are a huge number of liberal Americans including the current President and many, MANY in public office who believe this.

They haven’t got the stones to say so (and Cronkite probably only let the curtains part on this because he was starting to get a bit soft in the head) but it brings to mind what Richard Nixon said about Alger Hiss: “If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil him in oil.”

I am pretty sure that if many Americans knew what liberals really have in store but won’t dare disclose, they might feel the same way.


74 posted on 07/17/2009 6:46:00 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: bigbob
“but he was objective on the air,”

Huh?

75 posted on 07/17/2009 6:46:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: screenombre
For those too young to remember

That's me. I just remember my Dad watching him every night after dinner on CBS (I remember Dan Rather as a reporter too).

Did he fight in WWII?

76 posted on 07/17/2009 6:46:55 PM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: submarinerswife

Didn’t he just cover the news?


77 posted on 07/17/2009 6:48:31 PM PDT by taxtruth
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To: ConservativeMind

Maybe he meant “objectionable.”


78 posted on 07/17/2009 6:48:59 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: submarinerswife

He was in the Normandy invasion as a reporter.
He was too young for WW1 and too old for WW2.


79 posted on 07/17/2009 6:49:26 PM PDT by ricoshea
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Michael Jackson worshippers will be ticked about the shift in MSM focus.

Walter Cronkite dead
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80 posted on 07/17/2009 6:50:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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