Walter Cronkite Without Tears

IBD Editorials ^ | July 20, 2009 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Journalism: After the eulogies, the fact remains that "the most trusted man in America" betrayed that trust. He helped snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Vietnam and tried hard to do the same in Iraq.

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President Obama on Friday praised Walter Cronkite as a journalistic icon, calling the CBS anchor the "voice of certainty in an uncertain world." More to the point, he was the father of advocacy journalism, the patron saint of media bias. He went from reporting news to recreating it in his own image.

Far from the image of the patriotic war correspondent, Cronkite was a World Federalist who couldn't wait for what was called "the American Century" to end.

In a profile by Newsday TV writer Verne Gay in the Jan. 21, 1996, issue of Los Angeles Times Magazine, Cronkite spoke of his dream for America. "We may have to find some marvelous middle ground between capitalism and communism," Gay quotes Cronkite as saying.

Let's call it socialism, and Cronkite at least lived long enough to see it unfolding before his eyes and ours.

Cronkite said that for the United States "the first priority of the new order must be a revision of the educational system to . . . guarantee that each of our citizens will have equal resources to share in the decisions of the democracy, and a fair share of the economic pie."

[Kaslin]

[Kaslin]

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[Gay State Conservative]

Tears? For Cronkite? I’ll be shedding almost as many tears for him as I shed for Mao.Which is just about.....none!

[gedeon3]

F*ck him.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

the snip alone explains why he did what he did in 1968.....he couldn’t bear the thought of America defeating communism...

[ArrogantBustard]

I defecate on his memory ... just like he constantly defecated on the United States.

[Don Corleone]

As someone who knew him personally I can attest that this article is way too easy on him. A limousine liberal of the first water. No tears for the Chablis and brie’ crowd.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Cronkite said that for the United States “the first priority of the new order must be a revision of the educational system to . . . guarantee that each of our citizens will have equal resources to share in the decisions of the democracy, and a fair share of the economic pie.”

This from a man who made $700,000.00 per year in 1969........

[pankot]

Cronkite was full of crap. (ps Michael Jackson is still dead)

[truthguy]

I’m going to steal your acronym. Is it okay?

[Kaslin]

Help yourself :)

[Kaslin]

It really ticked me off when Fox news referred to him as the most trusted man in America. Most mistrusted man would have been more accurate

[LibLieSlayer]

I have some bodily fluid for walter’s headstone... but it ain't tears!

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Well stated!!!

LLS

[jveritas]

There is no doubt that Cronkite was an anti-American left wing liberal socialist and a hypocrite beyond belief belief. The man is one the main reasons we lost our will to fight and win the Vietnam war. That war was not lost in the jungles of Vietnam but on the broadcast of CBS evening news by Cronkite and on the front pages of the New York Times.

[jveritas]

All left wing socialists liberals are shockingly hypocrites and Cronkite was no different. They, the socialists elite, want to have 99.9% of the wealth and 100% of the power but for us the peasants they want us to share the 0.01% of the left over wealth i.e. we the peasants will live equally poor.

Have you met a left wing liberal who does not worship money and wants to make a lot of it? I have not.

[Randy Larsen]

As far as love of country and trustability goes...Cronkite was a minor player compared to El Rushbo!

[shield]

I understand lots of Nam vets will be visiting his grave to p*ss on it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Have you met a left wing liberal who does not worship money and wants to make a lot of it? I have not”

Neither have I, and I can tell this; lefties will be the first ones to screw you in a business deal. I avoid them like the plague!