Posted on 07/18/2009 3:37:41 AM PDT by BCrago66
Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92, and it’s a mark of how the world has changed since his heyday that not a person under the age of 25 will have any idea who he was—and not a person under the age of 25 has probably ever watched the program that made him, for a time, the most trusted man in America and the most august personage in the news business.
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"So the passing of Walter Cronkite is a moment to remember an era that has passed, an era toward which we should not experience a moment’s nostalgia."
Of all of them, don’t miss this one.
Prayers to his family.
However, I will not miss the liberal anchor.
the “most trusted man in america”
turned out to be a liberal
and an opponent of the vietnam war.
our troops deserved better.
Is it OK to say that I’m tired of it all already? Although I do enjoy the turd in the corner every time Dan Rather’s name isn’t mentioned re Uncle Walter being forced off the air.
The Father of bias news reporting!
He read editorial opinion as news, and people trusted him.
A Founding Member of the Main Stream Media.
Amen. I put him in the same class as Hanoi Jane.
US ARMY 1964-1968.
Yes, and another moment I’ve never forgotten from that {deleted]: his saying night after night during the Iranian hostage crisis that the hostages were being treated well.
Too bad this couldn’t have happened before he got a chance to cover Viet Nam.
A man who said he would welcome the devil at his side.
Cronkite was so embedded with the Kennedy clan and the liberal Democrats but now we all have to hear several days of how honest, objective, fair, and unbiased he was. What a bunch of BS. If only we had the internet and Fox News back in the 60s.
No Cronkite? Gesundheit!
Seriously, though, run a search of krankheit and gesundheit.
It's political. Makes me wonder if "Cronkite" actually was his surname?
A couple of years ago the AARP magazine did a puff piece on dear Uncle Walter.
They had to admit they got thousands of letters of complaint and disgust at their interpretation of this man.
The msm can bloviate all they want about the most trusted news anchor.
The people KNOW the truth. Or at least, peers of his age know the truth.
He was not to be trusted.
In a perfect world, Fat Teddy Kennedy would have taken Jane Fonda for a ride across the Chappaquiddick Bridge that fateful night, and as the car plunged into the water, it would have struck Uncle Walter in his boat, looking for clues and never finding any.
"Our (Tet) loses were staggering and a complete surprise. (General) Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when (President) Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for re-election."
"... and that's the way it is."
A squadron of F-4s dropping bombs on his grave would be appropriate, followed by A-4s strafing the atoms.
Better yet, news sources should just clearly state their editorial perspective and then let us decide. Remember all of those newspapers that have/had "Democrat" or "Republican" in their title?
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