Cronkite: Terrorism a "Revolution of the Poor Against the Rich"

Media Research Center ^ | Tuesday September 10, 2002 | staff

[ldish]

Hey Walter, how much of your millions are you sending to the non-infidels in the middle east? Why aren't the leaders of the Islamic nations sharing their millions and billions with their own people? Duh, who should the poor people of America go begging to for their share of the wealth of those like you CEOs, Actors, Anchors, and professional ball players? huh?

[narby]

no-force ..... including flying planes into buildings.

Huh?

[chs68]

Hey Walter --

Did this ever enter your small liberal brain?

The United States is rich because we are free.

Instead of directing their anger towards the freedom-loviong people of the United States, the people who do not enjoy what we enjoy should devote themselves to staging revolutions against those forces that throttle freedom in their own countries.

Arab people do not have to be poor. That they tolerate rulers who deny them basic freedoms is a BIG reason for their poverty.

Don't blame us. Blame them instead.

[mitchbert]

Stupid leftist claptrap fantasy that one person (or nation's) increase in wealth has to come at the expense of someone else's. Utter drivil. Have these idiots never heard of "creation of wealth?"

Besides, Bangladeshis, many Indians, etc live in abject poverty. I don't recall them screaming about destroying America. This generally starts in nations with at least some degree of education and wealth. Truly poor and destitute people are too busy eeking out their meager existence to worry about becoming terrorists.

Go rant into a toy microphone in front of a mirror, Walter.

[1Old Pro]

If it's a revolution of poor vs. rich, old rich walter better go hide.

[Williams]

Well said. Reading Cronkite's statement, it really is highly offensive. Nuttiness about a Worldwide revolution against our riches?? By all those poor people who are fed up with us no less. How much poorer would they be if we didn't exist?? A lot. Plus I am unaware of much Central American, South American, or African terrorism these days. And poverty in the Third World is no excuse for blowing up office buildings here.

Finally, I believe Walter has been enjoying retirement on his expensive yacht for years.

[cyncooper]

He can't be trusted for one minute now.

I actually watched a very few minutes of this interview.

I saw Cronkite was LK's guest and I figured he'd say something like this. I heard it myself.

In addition he echoed a sentiment I read here on FR yesterday expressed by Dan Rather. That is, that the media should always be questioning the administration.

My mind instantly pictured him boating with the clintons.

Disgusting.

[Semper Paratus]

Comrade Cronkite's world ended with the demise of the CCCP.

[tubebender]

When Cranktite said we must get out of Vietnam the will of the American public collapsed. He was as bad or worse than jane fondle. In those days I drank my jug wine out of water tumblers and the glass punched a hole in the sheetrock when it missed the TV...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The simple reason we are wealthy compared to the "third world" is because we have property rights in a republic kind of democracy. What we work for and earn is our own to sell or barter. Elsewhere, individuals don't exist.

[Lil'freeper]

I'm still composing my thoughts- and still haven't written the essay- but I think it has something to do with the fact that freedom is terrifying to most people. It has something to do with a childish dependence on a 'state' or an 'authority' to make decisions for you. Thus when someone has the nads to stand up, take a risk, venture some capital and then reap the well-earned reward his success is met with resentment by those who are angry with themselves for not taking the risk. Its not that they didn't have the opportunity, they just didn't have the courage. Nothing makes people crankier than being exposed as cowards. That goes for nations, too.

[Burkeman1]

Walter, "the war is unwinnable", Cronkite makes an ass out of himself yet again. This man's career was one of bias and shoddy reporting. He would have done less harm to the world if he had been a ditch digger (in fact any ditch digger has done more for the world than this nattering old fool.)

[Cacique]

Typical leftist misunderstanding of basic economics. To them wealth is a finite pie and a zero sum game. never mind the fact that most of the world is poor and backwards because they refuse to be productive.

If it wasn't for the productive people of the world we would still be living in caves but the leftist envy crowd doesn't understand that. Further proof that these degenerates have a low IQ lower than apes.

[lavaroise]

The liberal politics of shame, racism and stereotyping. Not that the hijackers were ritzy and liberal educated Saudis is bothering him either. Man, when the mind plays tricks on people because they praise it too much, we witness the insanity of Conkrite sh!t. LOL. The demons make me laugh, so much subserviant to sodomizing definitions, yet so proud of squealing out their tune while they proceed on Cokrite sh!t.

[Tao Yin]

Agreed. Uncle Wally needs to read the opening chapter of Investor's Business Daily Guide to the Markets.

This explains why we are wealthy and repressed people are poor. It should be much easier for him to understand than Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

[Gritty]

Poor Walter! He must have forgotten his meds again.

Or maybe he's just been hanging around Bill Clinton too much.

[Smile-n-Win]

Cronkite: Terrorism a "Revolution of the Poor Against the Rich"

Cronkite is terribly revulsive to the poor as well as the rich.

[fight_truth_decay]

the PG version

[jjm2111]

Maybe old Walter should invite a few Sudanese slaves to live in his swank upper east side co-op. Whoops, Sudanese slaves aren't a trendy liberal cause. Oh well.

[KellyAdmirer]

Revolutions are internal events, Walter. Go back to crying about Vietnam.