What an arrogant elitist. Americans are too smart to trust the news to your ilk, Mr. Cronkite.
Right.
Interesting how he criticizes the news for providing celebrity news rather than the news of the day, and in the next breath criticizes the blogosphere for "confusing" people with opinions (and facts the MSM does not give).
How arrogant! Everyone should just watch CSB news and not question it, I guess. national Guard story, anyone?
If President Gore or Kerry were in office the lefty elites like Cronkite would have a completely different attitude.
There's no little irony in those whose training is in JOURNALISM, able to construct a sentence but little or no background in economics, philosophy, and other serious ideas, telling us that we're too dumb to vote intelligently. Ignore the celebrity profiles?--Walter, you ARE a celebrity profile.
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 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.
Actually, he's partyly right. The public is extremely ignorant about government. Study after study shows this. Still....I'd rather disfranchise Uncle Walter than Joe Six pack.
Most of us were smart enough to quit watching him many years ago. Who cares what he thinks, anymore? I sure do not.