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NPR Host Longs for More Peaceful Era of Walter Cronkite
Michellemalkin.com ^ | 1/17/11 | Doug Powers

Posted on 01/17/2011 11:49:52 AM PST by pissant

NPR’s Scott Simon longs for the peaceful days of Walter Cronkite, when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of:

SIMON: People have observed over the past few years, for example, that, you know, this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night.

Tim Graham at Newsbusters confirms Simon’s claims about the peacefulness of the Cronkite era**.

(**Not counting the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X, the shooting of George Wallace, two attempts on Gerald Ford’s life or the wild over exaggeration about the size of Cronkite’s nightly audience)

And let’s not forget the vicious rabbit attack on Jimmy Carter.

Simon’s laughable claim is perhaps more of a mourning for a bygone era when dinosaur media ruled the earth and a scant few voices controlled dissemination of information to America than it is an indictment of the current political climate, but either way, he’s fooling himself.

In a literal sense, Simon might be correct — things like this just didn’t happen when 63 million people watched Walter Cronkite every night. That’s because 63 million people didn’t watch Walter Cronkite every night. Nothing like this happened when 30 million people watched Katie Couric every night either.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cronkite; giffords; npr; oldcommiebastard; vietnam; waltercronkite
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To: pissant

Terry Gross is more of a man than Scott Simon.


21 posted on 01/17/2011 12:05:32 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: pissant

There’s a word for people like Simon - reactionary.

Or fuddy-duddy. That’s accurate too.

In MY day we had 3 stations, they all broadcast the same statist bull cr@p AND WE LIKED IT!!.


22 posted on 01/17/2011 12:08:27 PM PST by DManA
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To: pissant

Ask the ‘Nam guys on The Wall if Cronkite’s coverage of the war brought more peaceful times.


23 posted on 01/17/2011 12:10:52 PM PST by Free Vulcan (The cult of Islam must be eradicated by any means necessary.)
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To: MrB; GeronL

I get chills wondering how many lies were spread by the “big three” networks and their Democrat newsrooms during the decades prior to the ascendance of “new media” (talk radio, cable news, and the internet). A mere 15 or 20 years ago, Dan Rather would have gotten away with his fake “National Guard memo”. How many fakes, forgeries, and lies did he and his ilk actually SUCCEED in getting away with for at least 50 years? We’ll probably never know.


24 posted on 01/17/2011 12:13:48 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Free Vulcan

Don’t forget the Vietnamese people too, when the USA left. Peace.


25 posted on 01/17/2011 12:14:01 PM PST by DBrow
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To: RinaseaofDs
Viet Nam - started by Kennedy, exacerbated by Johnson, brought to the verge of victory by Westmoreland, lost by Cronkite, ended by Nixon.

You left out one small item. The Demorats defended Viet Nam just when things were turning around.

26 posted on 01/17/2011 12:14:10 PM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: pissant
Notice the passive tone.

People have observed

Couching his personal opinion in an ersatz reportorial product.

Cronkite would have said "I observed". It would have been a lie but it wouldn't have been namby pamby passive.

27 posted on 01/17/2011 12:15:32 PM PST by DManA
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To: pissant

I recall how returning Viet Nam vets were treated so honorably and nonconfrontationally by the libs.


28 posted on 01/17/2011 12:18:58 PM PST by jda
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To: DManA

What an utterly ludicrous statement to be made by someone who calls himself a “journalist?”


29 posted on 01/17/2011 12:25:39 PM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: pissant

Oh yeah, then there was that incident where protestors burned down a few rotc buildings and then the National Guard opened fire on them - killing 4 people at Kent State.

Times were really peaceful then.

I wonder what Sarah Palin did to incite all that violence?


30 posted on 01/17/2011 12:27:52 PM PST by crescen7 (game on)
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To: TNCMAXQ

That’s also typical gotcha tactic lefty big media types use on conservatives:

People have observed that you beat your wife. Is that still going on?


31 posted on 01/17/2011 12:28:45 PM PST by DManA
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To: mountainlion

No I didn’t. Westmoreland nearly pulled it off. He wiped out the VC during Tet. A senior VC general actually attested to this fact in lectures at several military academies.

We had literally won. The VC didn’t even have 30 days left by this general’s point of view.

Cronkite and Rather made sure we lost.


32 posted on 01/17/2011 12:33:04 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: pissant

Newark riots, Chicago riots at the 68 Rat convention, Watts burning to the ground, NYC blackout with all the looting and pillaging.

Yup nothing happened when 63 million watched Crockite


33 posted on 01/17/2011 12:47:19 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ( Happy Freeping New Year)
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To: pissant

or the Weather Underground, the SLA, etc..


34 posted on 01/17/2011 12:48:48 PM PST by rahbert
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To: EQAndyBuzz

How did they ever do it without having Bush, Palin, Rush OR Beck to blame???


35 posted on 01/17/2011 12:49:48 PM PST by jda
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To: pissant

He wants to go back to the days that they could lie to us and get away with it... npr=NATIONAL PROPAGANDA RADIO

LLS


36 posted on 01/17/2011 12:52:33 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: pissant

Not to mention the race baiting “progress” of institutionalized reverse discrimination w/o question.


37 posted on 01/17/2011 12:53:07 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: pissant
NPR’s Scott Simon longs for the peaceful days of Walter Cronkite, when horrible events like the Tucson shootings were unheard of:

I think that Scott Simon is longing for the days before femi-nazies dominated our culture.

Walter Cronkite was a far leftist with little or no competition; he dominated the airwaves pretending to be neutral. He was not a nice person for this country.

38 posted on 01/17/2011 12:55:41 PM PST by olezip
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To: pissant
And here's what a couple of decades of Cronkite and centralized propaganda consumption leave you as when they're don't effing up your mind:


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

39 posted on 01/17/2011 12:56:21 PM PST by The Comedian ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
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To: pissant

We lived that era...funny...we don’t long for those days.


40 posted on 01/17/2011 1:03:17 PM PST by cubreporter (Rush Limbaugh...Man of all the years. Trust Rush he stands for America.)
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