Posted on 07/17/2009 9:43:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
You nailed that ole commie!
Hey, he influenced hippie saliva to be spit upon returning soldiers and Harry Reid’s “The War Is Lost” speech to highschoolers, so let’s be fair with this poll. After all, he was always fair...wasn’t he?
Walter Cronkite was General Giap’s favorite newsman.
Huntley was every bit as leftwing as Cronkite. Huntley famously called Goldwater a madman during the 1964 election.
I thought so, when I was young, ignorant and gullible. He had the "undertaker" delivery, which could make reading a recipe sound like a historic event.
I got older and wiser, and Walter came out of the liberal closet.
That changed everything. By then it was obvious to me that Walter thought that he personally was part of the world events, rather than just a reader of news.
The more things change... etc.
Whatever happened to Rather, the "fake but accurate" wannabe Cronkite??
“My vote goes to Paul Revere. He gave the Americans the most important news, when they needed it the most.”
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I heard a few weeks ago that the legend of Paul Revere is bogus. The story apparently is that Revere never made it to Concord. He was arrested by British soldiers a few miles outside Lexington. The soldiers released him, but they kept his horse. Revere had to walk back to Lexington.
Someone else, whose name escapes me, did make it to Concord, but it seems unlikely that he would have yelled, “The British are coming; the British are coming” since the colonists at that time still considered themselves British and they wouldn’t know what he was talking about.
Now, I can’t say this is for real, but this revised version of the story did strike me funny.
Clearly it is Brit Hume!
Most of the people who frequent the TMZ site have no fricking clue who Walter Cronkite was. These are the same people who accused the Bush Administration of killing Kanye West’s mother when in reality she died from the ineptitude of her care givers after plastic surgery.
The Father of bias news reporting!
Where’s the choice for, “He was a slimy commie who should have been hanged for treason?”
Probably most influential at the time.
Thank God for the internet and Jim Thompson. We are not now so easily fooled.
What I really dread is another day of fawning so soon after MJ.
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