Posted on 10/03/2005 5:06:51 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 6:56 a.m. EDT Walter Cronkite: U.S. Too Ignorant to Vote
The man once known as the most trusted journalist in America no longer trusts Americans to vote for their own leaders, saying average citizens are just too ignorant to cast their ballots wisely.
"We [as a nation] are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders," CBS News legend Walter Cronkite told the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication last week.
In quotes picked up by the Los Angeles Times, Cronkite said journalists need to find a way to better inform the public, suggesting they pressure their employers to replace the current roundups of celebrity profiles and personal health and finance pieces with "the news of the day."
"If we fail at that," Cronkite warned, "our democracy, our republic, I think, is in serious danger."
The CBS legend also said that he fears that the blogosphere could threaten the standing of the mainstream media, adding that news consumers are already confused by cable TV's "opinion journalism."
Actually I think Walter is speaking the soft bigotry code for Black people.
Is grandpa Walt really Michele Moore's father?
I should also note that Hillary made this same point at the U.N. Women's Forum in India in 1997. She said that America will not have a woman president re:her, until we do away with general elections for president and move to a Parlement style congress.
Well, at least he the guts to come forward and say what we knew the Dims. have always thought.....AMERICANS ARE STUPID......
Know what you mean. I talked to my daughter, who lives in Ohio, recently and the stuff she was saying about Bush and the war in Iraq sounds like it came off the Democrat cue cards, word for word. I asked her if she ever researched the events leading up to the Iraq war and she said just what she listened to on the news. She is not alone, there are millions like her.
Wally Crankcase and his ilk are way over due to be cancelled out!! What an idiot moonbat...he thinks he is so damned smart and is one of the elite 'journalists". Even if you put the lipstick on Walter, I'm still not kissing you-you old coot!! Feel free to go straight to hell, you windbag!
We may not like him, but how can anyone argue with what he says? Those voters he is talking about elected Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and--almost--Al Gore. Put a literacy test in the mix, perhaps the requirement to own property and pay property taxes, and we would have a very different government.
The public, government school system has ensured this with low standards, low expectaions and liberal indoctrination. If people were more educated, then Bush would have won with 80% of the vote and carried a lot more states. However, I think the education Cronkite is referring to is the government school education with low standards, low expectaions and liberal indoctrination. Only that kind of education produces the leftist voters Democrats depend upon for election.
Actually I agree with Walt's comment, but not for the same reason. To Walter, we the voters, are ignorant because we are voting for Republicans. His idea of education is to bash Republicans more (I am not sure how that would be possible) and promote socialism more.
My suggestion for education would have during the crisis in New Orleans, when the left was complaining about how "slow" President Bush was to respond, to give a lesson on the Consitution and explain who within our framework of government was responsible for what.
Of course that would mean Democrats would be shown to be poor leaders, and the President doing what he could do within the confines of the Consitution.
If I wanted to educate the voters, I would tear apart every spending bill that was passed, and ask the same question, where in the Consitution does it give the Federal Government the power to spend money on that project?
If I wanted to educate the voters, I would give a history lesson on the birth of our own nation, and how it actually took two tries for us to get our own Constitution, and so are we so impatient with Iraq?
To a large degree Americans are ignorant, which if I really wanted to improve on that, I would go after the NEA, and ask them some tought questions, and perhaps hold them accountable for this ingnorance.
But, Uncle Walt does not really want informed voters, he want voters who believe what he belives. Socialism good, Republicans bad. His complaint is really after all these years of having it their way, his side is losing.
For once, I agree with old Kommie Krankheit -- although for entirely different reasons: he would have the country governed by a elite of socialist technocrats; I, by a Christian and conservative monarch. In both cases, the fact remains that government is too specialized and difficult a job to be left to mob rule. What Krankheit leaves out is the equally important fact that the federal government is too big, too powerful, and too intrusive to be justly ruled by any arrangement.
The blame for losing the Vietnam War rests largely at the feet of "the most trusted man in America". I will never forgive him for his years spent as a willing pusher of anti-American propaganda under the guise of news.
Most democrats are too ignorant to vote, they can't make it to the polls without being bussed, and are too incompetent to fill out a ballot properly.
Can anyone tell me what Crankcase was noted for before he became Pope at CBS?????
Actually, I agree and so did our founding fathers. The vast majority of people who vote don't know squat about who they are voting for. Many of our founding fathers did not think that voting should be universal knowing that there would be many people who voted simply to vote.
The fact that it can be proven that we are a conservative country that does not believe that homosexuals should be give the same marital status and priveleges as hoetero sexual couples, that the vast majority believe that abortions should not be used as birth control, and parents should be notified if their minor daughter attempts to obtain an abortion.
Yet the very existance of a hard left 'Rat Party who is constantly threatening proves that many people are too stupid to vote.
rhombus...Surely you would not want to go to a scenario whereby voting rights would be exercised by only selected groups???
#75 was intended for rhombus....
This horror of a man should NEVER try to speak of intelligence. Ever. He doesn't have enough intelligence to fill a thimble...and like other retired talking heads who find themselves on speaking tours, without a TelePrompter or script in front of them, his own bias and shallow headed thoughts become obvious.
Sooooooooooooooo Walter...ya don't like that the MSM has full control anymore, hey?
Tough.
Tyranny ALWAYS dies hard.
Uh, Cronkite is talking about YOU, not the people who parrot the MSM!
The screechings of the senile king rat as the old media loses the monopoly on shaping public opinion. Rat Rather and Cronkiter helped to defeat U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam and bring victory to the commies. For this, he is no friend of freedom. Yes, we are ignorant, because we don't share this one world bastard's opinion.
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