Posted on 07/22/2009 8:25:13 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The ebullient, effusive, gobstoppery about the life and times of Walter “the most trusted man in America” Cronkite is getting a little too thick around the Old Media landscpe and the latest slobbering love-in by Roger Simon of Politico has at last driven me to say “enuff’s enuf.”
Simon’s saccharine memorial oozes from my computer like syrup and it is just as oversweet, and just as unhealthy. Like too many such memorials, the piece is more about the living’s sycophancy than the dearly departed’s life as Simon waxed nostalgic on the day he first met the towering news reader in person.
It was Simon, the boy reporter, meeting Cronkite, the elder statesman, and, gosh, guess what? Why “the most trusted man in America” was just like a reg’lar guy! The shock of it is overwhelming. The vaunted Mr. Cronkite even told the cub reporter that he, the man at the height of ascendency, the end-all and be-all of “news,” the bestest “reporter” of them all, was “jealous” of Simon because the young man was “in the field” and got to do the “real” journalism.
It almost brings a tear to the eye.
Except for the fact that all the adulation for Cronkite, the “serious” news man, is misplaced because he was nothing of the kind. He was a teleprompter reader, a paper shuffler, a voice actor. He was NOT a “journalist.”
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If the facts don't agree with the ideology....well you know the rest of the story.
Flame-on you Cronkite worshipers! Bring it on.....
He was an excellent news reader.
Another newsreader who got confused and thought his job description included interpreting the news according to his point of view.
Yes, he was.
Cronkheit was better than Rather at least but not by much. He helped the Vietnam War lose support. Of course the Vietnam War was a lost cause anyway because the government and not the military was running it. If the military was allowed to do what they wanyed to do unfettered and unrestrained, the war might have been won. The only thing then that might have kept us from winning was the overwhelming corruption of the South Vietnamese government.
Cronkheit was better than Rather at least but not by much. He helped the Vietnam War lose support. Of course the Vietnam War was a lost cause anyway because the government and not the military was running it. If the military was allowed to do what they wanyed to do unfettered and unrestrained, the war might have been won. The only thing then that might have kept us from winning was the overwhelming corruption of the South Vietnamese government.
All of this for Cronkite, don’t they Michael Jackson died? What’s more important here, hmpff. lol
Absolutely. Publically too, after he left See-BS news.
He has the blood of dead American Soldiers on his hands.
He was a great prevaricator.
Cronkite was a liberal propagandist. People had no other real news sources so they ate up his emotional presentations of his propaganda as real news.
When Cronkite was presented evidence that Tet ‘68 was a complete and total loss for the communist north, he instead presented Tet ‘68 as a tie and a significant loss to America and South Vietnam.
You can say that again!! He was a leftist propagandist and liar whose lies cost the lives of THOUSANDS of young men in Vietnam and extended the war for years!!!
Burn, Wally, BURN!!!
I never got the impression that Cronkite was too bright. His comments after he retired, especially the one about hoping for a one-world goverment, cemented my earlier impression.
You're rather woefully ignorant of Vietnam, aren't you?
It is true that Wally helped us lose it, but he did so by declaring that the Tet Offensive had been lost by the American forces when, in fact, the exact opposite was true!! Tet was an overwhelming victory for the Americans and, we learned many decades later in the autobiography of a North Vietnamese general, it was such an overwhelming victory that the north was on the verge of capitulating.
Until they heard Wally's broadcast. His declaration about the Tet Offensive demoralized the American troops and energized our enemy. As the result of his anti-American broadcast that night and the propaganda lies told by John F'n Kerry and Jane Fonda, the war was extended by several years and caused the deaths of THOUSANDS of young American and Vietnamese men. His propaganda turned the tide of American public opinion about the war and, ultimately, caused us to escape Vietnam before we were completely overrun and defeated!!
Cronkite provided the model that the SRM still uses to manipulate and lie about news events. That's one of the reasons he is their hero and is being called "the benchmark" and the "gold standard" by other liars such as Dan Blather and Tom Brokenjaw! He taught them how to do it and get away with it.
“the most trusted man in America”....?
BULLCRAP!
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