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To: Starman417
RIP. May Walter be in good company with the tens of thousands of soldiers he stabbed in the back.
2 posted on
07/18/2009 9:25:06 AM PDT by
skeeter
To: Starman417
The death of the great news god.......
4 posted on
07/18/2009 9:29:00 AM PDT by
Nextrush
(Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan, I hope.)
To: Starman417
He belongs on a “most overrated” list.
To: Starman417
This was and is my opinion also. Cronkite is in part responsible for the barrage of stupid opinions we get from people who studied Liberal Arts (news broadcasting) because they could not make it in occupations that contributed to society, not freeloaded on it. He would have made a great politician also, had he not struck pay dirt in the media.
To: Starman417
All I have to say is that we were a Huntley/Brinkley Report watching family.
To: Starman417
He would have never gotten away with his lies if there had been an internet.
9 posted on
07/18/2009 9:40:31 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: Starman417
They're just practicing for the day when Ted "Killer" Kennedy kicks the slop bucket...
Look out when that happens for Wellstone redux...
Luckily, my TV came with a channel-changer and an 'off' button...
10 posted on
07/18/2009 9:40:37 AM PDT by
Zeppo
(Save the cheerleader, save the world...)
To: Starman417
The media has already canonized him as it’s secular saint with accolades like “trust”. “honorable” “reliable” “voice of reason” etc.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, his misuse of his anchor perch was perhaps as treasonous as that of Jane Fonda.
To: Starman417; Travis McGee; puroresu
I remember Tet as a 11 year old and Walter “That's the Way it Is” every evening and bodycounts and whatnot....theirs were always much higher.
But does anyone have links or quotes that Cronkite actually wanted to thwart the SEATO effort in Indochina or if he was simply wrong in his assumptions.
I realize he was not a right winger but the political divisions then were slightly different from today.
Political divides are not static or straight continuum
the irony is that back then i was an idealistic left leaning libertarian on many issues but like I said many things were not on our plate like today but yet we all thought the entire media both the three networks and print were staid establishment conservative...and that includes Cronkite.
there was no love loss between the media and the counter culture..aside from some weekly college rags
13 posted on
07/18/2009 9:45:43 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(Proudly Anti-Abortion, not and will never be Pro-Life...........Sarah Palin, there is no substitute)
To: Starman417
My brother told me a story about meeting Cronkite in Boston in the late ‘60s when he went to college there. He said Cronkite walked over to Students for a Democratic Society booth and donated $50 to them.
That is all anyone needs to know about this traitor.
RIP
14 posted on
07/18/2009 9:47:19 AM PDT by
jokyfo
(JESUS CHRIST: The Light of the world... AMERICA: The light of freedom.)
To: Starman417
From a VET. Good riddance. My he burn he hell for what he did to us vets.
15 posted on
07/18/2009 9:47:42 AM PDT by
Exton1
To: Starman417
Something to knock off the Jackson meme.
17 posted on
07/18/2009 9:52:03 AM PDT by
philman_36
(Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
To: Starman417
18 posted on
07/18/2009 9:53:44 AM PDT by
PLD
To: Starman417
I can see Wally now taking his glasses on and off repeatedly choking up as he realizes he’s staring Beelzebub in the face.
19 posted on
07/18/2009 9:57:41 AM PDT by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: Starman417; IncPen
20 posted on
07/18/2009 9:58:12 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
To: Starman417
I agree. His defeatist statement, which was not true, is the only thing I remember.
21 posted on
07/18/2009 10:06:58 AM PDT by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
To: Starman417
Cronkite love fest ‘remembering him’ = C L I C K
22 posted on
07/18/2009 10:09:05 AM PDT by
kcvl
To: Starman417; Nextrush; All
23 posted on
07/18/2009 10:10:22 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
To: Starman417
28 posted on
07/18/2009 10:52:36 AM PDT by
preacher
(A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
To: Starman417
Finally, Michael Jackson is off the TV.
29 posted on
07/18/2009 10:54:46 AM PDT by
Colvin
(Harry Reid is a sap sucking idiot.)
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