The Terrible Truth About Walter Cronkite

Accuracy In Media ^ | July 20, 2009 | CLIFF KINCAID

[AIM Freeper]

It is wrong to speak ill of the dead. On the other hand, it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to pretend that Walter Cronkite was the "voice of God" and "universally credible," as Mara Liasson put it on Fox News Sunday. The terrible truth is that Walter Cronkite symbolized liberal media bias and used that bias with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. His latest cause was world government and the destruction of American sovereignty.

We found out after his retirement that he was not only a liberal, which was evident from his broadcasts, but a one-worlder. In appearances before the World Federalist Association, which favors world government financed by global taxes, he called for the U.S. to renounce "some of its sovereignty" and pass a series of United Nations treaties-many of which are now being pushed in the Senate by President Barack Obama. Cronkite called for an "international Liberty Bell."

He called for Senate ratification of the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Most important, he said, we should sign and ratify the Treaty for a Permanent International Criminal Court, which would violate U.S. constitutional rights by enabling foreign judges to prosecute American citizens and imprison them in foreign jails. Cronkite was determined to use the U.N. and its treaties to inhibit the ability of the U.S. to act in its own national security interests.

[hosepipe]

and thats the way “it WASNT”... but reported as if it WAS.. basically by the Propaganda-in-Chief.. Commisar Cronkite.. the BullSqueeze Quack...

[KC_Conspirator]

I agree.

Bad man, good death.

[CanaGuy]

You’ve heard of the separation of Church and State, well there used to be the separation of Reporting and Opinion. Walter Concrete was one of the first to blur that separation, much to the detriment of modern news “reporting”.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Agree, and the CBS special last night did not have a single conservative discuss Cronkites body of work. Heck, there wasn’t even a ‘moderate’. Limbaugh, Gingrich and/or O’Reilly would have provided some balance to the program.

[Tarpon]

You know what they say, reinforce your points with repetition .... LOL.

[BatGuano]

Cronkite used the “trust me, don't I look like your father/grandfather” ploy to fool most of us for his entire career.
He tried to join a genealogical society in New York back in the 60’s and could not prove his descent from the colonist he claimed. The society did not care about his celebrity status, just that he prove himself eligible. Cronkite could not. Good bye Walter, you fake!

[ryan71]

The communist is gone. So sad.

[Little Ray]

Walter Cronkite is dead. I wish he’d died long ago. I won’t miss him. May God have mercy on his stained, diseased soul.

[Harold Shea]

Absolutly correct,the North Vietnamese knew all they had
to do was hold on and they would win because of Cronkite,Jane
Fonda and other swine like them

I`ve been cursing his name since `70 and won`t stop now

[Buckeye McFrog]

if there is any justice, he was forced to walk through the Killing Fields on his way to the next life...

[subterfuge]

Anyone have a handy link to all Cronkite’s communist associations and entanglements? I think this article only touches on his involvement with American/Foreign subversives.

[Outlaw Woman]

If that isn’t an ‘elitist, pompous, superiority smirk, I don’t know what is...

[zwerni]

ping for later

[kjo]

After cutting and running from SE Asia...Cronkite was instrumental in not reporting the slaughter the communists engaged in...something like 2 million died...in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

If the MSM doesn’t report it, it must not be news.

[LeonardFMason]

“It is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the JUDGEMENT.”

[Tahoe3002]

Speaking ill of the dead does not apply when liberals speak ill of the Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul, et al.

It only applies, like so many other things, to conservatives, and we MUST not speak ill of the LIBERAL dead. Horsefeathers! The world would have been much different if Adolf Hitler died in the trenches of WWI.
Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, et al are all better dead than breathing.

[RinaseaofDs]

The irony is that when he went live with his opinion about the Viet Nam war, and how he thought it unwinnable, it was the day that TV journalism started its slow death.

Now every idiot that could call themself a journalist figured it was OK to get up there and tell us what they thought, as if they were qualified to comment.

Here we are today. Dan Rather got caught forging documents and proffering them as proof a US president lied about his military status. TMZ is considered credible. The National Enquirer brought down a candidate for US President.

The Big Three’s numbers for nightly news have plummeted. People are getting their news from blogs, Twitter, FR, and mostly Drudge than anywhere else. On the left, its only propaganda - Daily Kos, HuffPo, Wonkette, et. al.

Their patron saint is the guy that put a bullet in their rice bowl. He’s going to have to answer for 1M dead Cambodians, at least in part.

[brytlea]

Thank you for saying that.

[556x45]

...with a soothing voice to make his tripe palatable.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Cronkite used the “trust me, don’t I look like your father/grandfather” ploy to fool most of us for his entire career.

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Well put, I was just thinking that. Basically had what it takes to be a character actor in “B” movies, but parlayed that into many millions and advancing and evil agenda. Sad.