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Cronkite is nuts. Nobody in my family has constantly displayed "riches." If a person thinks we're rich because our toilet flushes, then they're nut cases too.

If a person thinks we're rich because our toilet flushes, then they're nut cases too.

I am sitting at home today waiting for a plumber to show up to replace my toilet which will not flush. I have a feeling the plumber will be richer and I will be poorer by the end of the day. However, I plan no terrorist attacks on the plumber or his family.

THE AYATOLLAH CRONKITE.

By: Jesus J. Chao

October 1, 2001

Walter Cronkite’s hysterical attack on Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson shows to the world the lack of respect by the semi-gods of the U.S. elite media for the First Amendment Rights of those who do not share their ideology.

Falwell’s crime; the evangelist alleged that the attacks were divine retribution on American for "pagans, abortionists, feminists, homosexuals, the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way."

Many considered, and rightly so, Falwell’s remarks inappropriate, but Cronkite should be the last person to be involved in a vicious attack on his freedom of speech affirming that Falwell’s remarks in regards to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as "the most abominable thing I've ever heard," and told TV Guide columnist Max Robins, "It makes you wonder if [Falwell and Roberson are] worshipping the same God as the people who bombed the Trade Center and the Pentagon."

It is preposterous to equate Falwell’s commentary with the terrorists’ abominable actions. Mr. Cronkite’s remarks are more appropriated for a fundamentalist Ayatollah than for a U.S. media demi-god. Where was Cronkite’s wrath when a professor in New Mexico lamented that the whole Pentagon was not destroyed or the elementary school teacher who lamented to the students that the President was not killed?

It is clear that the elite media does not worship the same God than the rest of us. Cronkite is one of the demi-gods of the media’s Olympus, where he shares with Walter Duranty, Louis Fisher, and other, who were also media luminaries, the paeans of their worshipful comrades.

Certainly the elite media's idols are made of clay.

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