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Walter Cronkite, RIP
Commentary Magazine ^ | 07/17/09 | John Podhoretz

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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I like the conclusion:

"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."

1 posted on 07/18/2009 3:37:41 AM PDT by BCrago66
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Of all of them, don’t miss this one.


2 posted on 07/18/2009 3:46:04 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: BCrago66

Prayers to his family.

However, I will not miss the liberal anchor.


3 posted on 07/18/2009 3:56:04 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: BCrago66

the “most trusted man in america”

turned out to be a liberal

and an opponent of the vietnam war.

our troops deserved better.


4 posted on 07/18/2009 4:00:07 AM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: BCrago66

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.


5 posted on 07/18/2009 4:00:10 AM PDT by Thebaddog (Obama really did believe that stuff he was saying during the campaign)
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To: BCrago66
Cronkite, a variation of the German word krankheit which means sickness or disease.
6 posted on 07/18/2009 4:00:50 AM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: BCrago66

The Father of bias news reporting!


7 posted on 07/18/2009 4:01:00 AM PDT by Pardeeville Liberator
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To: BCrago66

He read editorial opinion as news, and people trusted him.


8 posted on 07/18/2009 4:01:07 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: BCrago66

A Founding Member of the Main Stream Media.


9 posted on 07/18/2009 4:04:56 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: R. Scott
"He read editorial opinion as news, and people trusted him.

Amen. I put him in the same class as Hanoi Jane.
US ARMY 1964-1968.

10 posted on 07/18/2009 4:06:02 AM PDT by DeaconRed (BO STINKS-AND THROWS LIKE A GIRL-AND IS A FRAUD)
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To: Erik Latranyi

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.


11 posted on 07/18/2009 4:11:23 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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To: BCrago66

Too bad this couldn’t have happened before he got a chance to cover Viet Nam.


12 posted on 07/18/2009 4:11:39 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

A man who said he would welcome the devil at his side.


13 posted on 07/18/2009 4:13:13 AM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: pnh102

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.


14 posted on 07/18/2009 4:15:37 AM PDT by doosee
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To: reg45
Cronkite, a variation of the German word krankheit which means sickness or disease.

No Cronkite? Gesundheit!

Seriously, though, run a search of krankheit and gesundheit.

It's political. Makes me wonder if "Cronkite" actually was his surname?

15 posted on 07/18/2009 4:37:24 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: R. Scott

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.


16 posted on 07/18/2009 4:37:28 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: BCrago66

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.


17 posted on 07/18/2009 4:37:37 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: BCrago66
Bui Tin, North Vietnamese army officer and journalist:

"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."

18 posted on 07/18/2009 4:37:52 AM PDT by shoptalk (Defend principles, not personalities. Personalities will always break your heart.)
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To: BCrago66

A squadron of F-4s dropping bombs on his grave would be appropriate, followed by A-4s strafing the atoms.


19 posted on 07/18/2009 4:44:21 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: R. Scott; Voter#537; doosee
The big lie isn't the stories that Cronkite and the other MSM talking heads feed us. It's that there could be or even should be unbiased "objective" news. B.S., just deciding what is and isn't news is a subjective/opinionated act.

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?

20 posted on 07/18/2009 4:48:44 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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