Posted on 07/18/2009 9:23:11 AM PDT by Starman417
He was no hero of mine!
Just like there is no proof that Harry Reid wanted the US military to fail in Iraq. And have I got a deal on a bridge for anyone who sincerely believes THAT!In both cases the evidence of the desire for American defeat can be illustrated by the fact that they were saying what they would NOT, on any account, say if they wanted the opposite result. If you sincerely believe that Reid didn't want American defeat when he openly predicted it, just ask yourself what price you think Reid would have accepted to predict that the Democratic Party was going to suffer a debilitating defeat in the next election. Even Obama can't print enough money for THAT!
And the same thing was true of Walter Cronkite and Vietnam.
So typical. Liberals want us to prove other people’s motivations before advancing a point, while they give us hate crime laws.
You expect what never was, and never will be.What you should expect is that reporters will not all be in cahoots. And that is something that has never been true in living memory. The AP was founded 150 years ago . . .
Walter Congkite
Fox News has been covering this non-stop as well. You’d think it was Roger Ailes or O’Reilly who had passed.
I remember that post.
That moment in 1968 was a defining one for Cronkite.
I watched the Vietnam special because I was interested in the Tet Offensive action as a child.
I watched Huntley and Brinkley every night, then later in the mid-70’s ABC with Reasoner and Smith.
Cronkite was horribly biased but a hardworking reporter who climbed over the competition to the “top.”
I will try to dig up the 1951 Washington TV Guide interview for some insight into Cronkite and post it sometime this weekend.
My 1st words about this old Commie Cronkite, hope the SOB likes his new hot home...no RIP for you!
Leftists don’t believe in an afterlife. Lying their way through life is all they have.
Thansk for the ping/posts...especially IncPen’s classic; thanks for the post. BTTT!
fair enough..thanks
In forty years will the media ignore his death like they did the death of Mary Jo Kopechne’s on July 18, 1969?
Brilliant analysis...and a hard, bitter truth that I learned over 35 years later that was embedded in the folksy 'news' provided by Mr. Cronkite and many of his colleagues at CBS, ABC, and NBC.
While purporting to 'report' events these people inserted their own personal views into the mix and made Americans believe it was 'authentic', 'credible', and 'truth'. And with a seemingly grandfatherly persona, Walter Cronkite pulled this ruse off with ease, thus earning him the status as 'The Most Trusted Person in News'.
With all due respect to his family in mourning, what a crock.
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