Communists are not conspiring to manipulate the media! (spoof of Eric Sevareid)
Posted on 11/12/2004 6:21:17 AM PST by StoneGiant
When Walter Cronkite talked on CNN last month about Osama bin Laden's scary pre-election video, yet another cat leapt out of the conspiracy-theory bag. "I'm a little inclined to think," Mr. Cronkite told host Larry King, "that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."
It's not clear whether this was a tasteless joke or a stray filament of wishful thinking; Mr. King probed no further. Yet the comment was a reminder that conspiracy theorizing--formerly confined to the realms of alien abduction kooks and grassy-knoll debaters--is edging ever closer to the mainstream. Like it or not.
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"Most Trusted Man in America" and "Conspiracy Theorist" are mutually exclusive titles.
Thank God that the new media is loosening the grip that these whackjob communists' had on all the so called "news" outlets.
""I'm a little inclined to think," Mr. Cronkite told host Larry King...
Unfortunately, Cronkite has never been inclined to think well.
Cronkite never has been very bright. He was an announcer -- a very overpaid one. A reasonant voice sounds authoritative and reassuring to people, but audiences should listen well to the message.
Cronkite and Kerry ...Soulmates to the end...
The word "Senile" come to mind
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NEVER FORGET
In the year 2000...
HILLARY's No. 1 Media Defensive Linebacker & Anti-U.S. Internationalist WALTER CRONKITE went to a London World Conference and called for our all our Southern States to secede from our Union in violation of our U.S. Constitution. AP fully reported this to the World at the time.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
NEVER FORGET
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CRONKITE II = DAN RATHER
"Your" Los Angeles Times says...
DAVID SHAW: DAN RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts
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CRONKITE was spawned by DON HEWITT
RATHER was spawned by DON HEWITT
'60 Mins was spawned by DON HEWITT
...on purpose.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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In recent years, Cronkite has spent spouting off at the mouth in speeches like this to the "World Federalists Association" about the formulation for a global government (I.e. the US subjugating its sovereignty to the likes of UN or something similar).
And Hillary Clinton was in on it too!
A speech by Walter Cronkite - United Nations, national sovereignty and the future of the world
upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, on October 19, 1999, at the UN Delegates Dining Room
" I am greatly honored to receive this Norman Cousins Global Governance Award for two reasons:
First, I believe as Norman Cousins did that the first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
Second, I feel sentimental about this award because half a century ago Norman offered me a job as spokesman and Washington lobbyist for the World Federalist organization, which was then in its infancy.
I chose instead to continue in the world of journalism. For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.
Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. Those of us who are living today can influence the future of civilization. We can influence whether our planet will drift into chaos and violence, or whether through a monumental educational and political effort we will achieve a world of peace under a system of law where individual violators of the law are brought to justice.
For most of this fairly long life I have been an optimist harboring a belief that as our globe shrank, as our communication miracles brought us closer together, we would begin to appreciate the commonality of our universal desire to live in peace and that we would do something to satisfy that yearning of all peoples. Today I find it harder to cling to that hope.
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
While we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war, we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile, emphasizing the sloth in this regard, those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.
But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen. The circumstances were vastly different, obviously. While the colonies differed on many questions, at least the people of the colonies were of the same Anglo-Saxon stock. Yet just because the task appears forbiddingly hard, we should not shirk it.
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here. So let's not talk generalities but focus tonight on a few specifics of what the leadership of the World Federalist Movement believe must be done now to advance the rule of world law.
For starters, we can draw on the wisdom of the framers of the US Constitution in 1787. The differences among the American states then were as bitter as differences among the nation-states in the world today.
In their almost miraculous insight, the founders of our country invented "federalism," a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual. Our federal system guarantees a maximum of freedom but provides it in a framework of law and justice.
Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better. Cities legislate on local matters; states make decisions on matters within their borders; and the national government deals with issues that transcend the states, such as interstate commerce and foreign relations. That is federalism.
Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law-- a democratic federal world government--to deal with world problems. What Alexander Hamilton wrote about the need for law among the 13 states applies today to the approximately 200 sovereignties in our global village: "To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages."
Today the notion of unlimited national sovereignty means international anarchy. We must replace the anarchic law of force with a civilized force of law.
Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law. We will never have a city without crime, but we would never want to live in a city that had no system of law to deal with the criminals who will always be with us.
Let me make three suggestions for immediate action that would move us in a direction firmly in the American tradition of law and democracy.
1. Keep our promises: We helped create the UN and to develop the UN assessment formula. Americans overwhelmingly want us to pay our UN dues, with no crippling limitations. We owe it to the world. In fact, we owe it as well to our national self-esteem.
2. Ratify 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, we should sign and ratify the Treaty for a Permanent International Criminal Court. That Court will enable the world to hold individuals accountable for crimes against humanity.
3. Consider, after 55 years, the possibility of a more representative and democratic system of decision making at the UN. This should include both revision of the Veto in the Security Council and adoption of a weighted voting system for the General Assembly. The World Federalists have endorsed Richard Hudson's Binding Triad proposal. George Soros, in his recent book, "The Crisis of Global Capitalism" has given serious attention to this concept which would be based upon not only one-nation-one-vote but also, on population and contributions to the UN budget.
Resolutions adopted by majorities in each of these three areas would be binding, enforceable law. Within the powers given to it in the Charter, the UN could then deal with matters of reliable financing, a standing UN Peace force, development, the environment and human rights.
Some of you may ask why the Senate is not ratifying these important treaties and why the Congress is not paying our UN dues. Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation's conscience.
They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil!
This small but well-organized group, has intimidated both the Republican Party and the Clinton administration. It has attacked each of our Presidents since FDR for supporting the United Nations. Robertson explains that these Presidents were and are the unwitting agents of Lucifer.
The only way we who believe in the vision of a democratic world federal government can effectively overcome this reactionary movement is to organize a strong educational counteroffensive stretching from the most publicly visible people in all fields to the humblest individuals in every community. That is the vision and the program of the World Federalist Association.
The strength of the World Federalist program would serve an important auxiliary purpose at this particular point in our history. There would be immediate diplomatic advantages in just the world knowledge that this country was even beginning to explore the prospect of strengthening the UN.
We would appear before the peoples of the world as the champion of peace for all by the equitable sharing of power. This in sharp contrast to the growing concern that we intend to use our current dominant military power to enforce a sort of pax Americana.
Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia. Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.
As Carl Van Doren has written, "History is now choosing the founders of the World Federation. Any person who can be among that number and fails to do so has lost the noblest opportunity of a lifetime.""
Kronkite lied to the American people 5 nights a week for 25 years!!
It had to be the result of some cooked poll and pollsters are a wing of the media.
There was a time when the answer "Walter Cronkite" to the question "Who is the most trusted man" wasn't even an opinion, it was the "correct answer" and a different answer was the "wrong answer".
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Check out how Enemy Within WALTER CRONKITE helped deny the once Free People of South Vietnam their Freedom thru "Free" American TV:
'WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE..& YOUNG'..4 FREEDOM
http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a39626542519c.htm
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDEIRS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Uncle Walt's own words reveal his true beliefs and feelings!
Communists are not conspiring to manipulate the media! (spoof of Eric Sevareid)
Cronkite is an old 1930s Stalinist. And, like many of his ilk, he has not allowed reality to change that.
No. Cronkite was a war correspondant who dropped with the US Airborne during Operation Market-Garden.
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