[nathanbedford]

[stainlessbanner]

well done sir!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I am sorry if I have to disagree with you about Uncle Commie.
We can NEVER say nice , sweet, fuzzy things about Communism when they take away our Freedoms, Bibles, Constitution, torture us, take away our loved ones, homes, possessions, our lives....

[Liberty Valance]

Excellent essay. You are one heck of a writer nathanbedford. Thank you for posting. And my condolences to Mr. Cronkite’s family and friends.

[tet68]

Oh excellent, very good work.
Again I am astounded by the csliber of people
who post here everyday.

Tet.

[tophat9000]

Yep Dad watching the TV yelling at that "Dam commie Walker Crank Case"

[goat granny]

Good post but I disagree 100 percent. He was a liar and spewed those lies nightly...I have the experience of 70 years and he was merely the Dan Rather of his time...There were no opposing voices on TV and no Rush or Free Republic to call him on it..........

My grandmother was a Cronkite and we shivered at the thought of him maybe being a distant cousin..

[JDoutrider]

Exceptional perspective Nathanbedford...

[backhoe]

It is harsh to say that, finally, Walter Cronkite was a deceiver, but it is the truth.

Yes...

"No man is an Island," and all that happy rot...
But...
Just remember this- google "Vietnamese Boat People," and recall that his biased reporting led to this:

The Killing Fields & Murder of a Gentle Land- what really happened in Cambodia a quarter-century ago

[jmaroneps37]

I too remember him very well. My father sat transfixed by him each night as well. That said I came to despise cronkite as I learned more about him. What he did in helping to arrange the death of tens of thousands of American fighting men after HE declared we lost in Viet Nam is/was/and always will be disgusting.
In later years he proved what he was made of when commenting on gay “marriage” he noted that he might have considered “marrying” a man. His wife was still alive at the time. That comment struck me as pathetic lunge at the limelight from an old fool who had done America far too much harm already.

[TASMANIANRED]

Well written.

[potlatch]

I think you were already pinged here devolve, but this is a good read if you haven’t seen it.

Nathan, your article is excellent!