Cronkite Dies & Liberal Love-In Commences

Flopping Aces ^ | 07-18-09 | Curt

[skeeter]

RIP. May Walter be in good company with the tens of thousands of soldiers he stabbed in the back.

[RWGinger]

actually I hope wally is NOT with the honorable soldiers and marines he stabbed

[Nextrush]

The death of the great news god.......

[Clint Williams]

May the rest of the lying “news” media join him ASAP.

[HelenChicago]

He belongs on a “most overrated” list.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

This was and is my opinion also. Cronkite is in part responsible for the barrage of stupid opinions we get from people who studied Liberal Arts (news broadcasting) because they could not make it in occupations that contributed to society, not freeloaded on it. He would have made a great politician also, had he not struck pay dirt in the media.

[JohnLongIsland]

All I have to say is that we were a Huntley/Brinkley Report watching family.

[DJ MacWoW]

He would have never gotten away with his lies if there had been an internet.

[Zeppo]

They're just practicing for the day when Ted "Killer" Kennedy kicks the slop bucket...

Look out when that happens for Wellstone redux...

Luckily, my TV came with a channel-changer and an 'off' button...

[Jakarta ex-pat]

I reckon he deserves to be on the great unknown list.
Outside of America, and possibly Canada, he was a total nobody.

[Steelfish]

The media has already canonized him as it’s secular saint with accolades like “trust”. “honorable” “reliable” “voice of reason” etc.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, his misuse of his anchor perch was perhaps as treasonous as that of Jane Fonda.

[wardaddy]

I remember Tet as a 11 year old and Walter “That's the Way it Is” every evening and bodycounts and whatnot....theirs were always much higher.

But does anyone have links or quotes that Cronkite actually wanted to thwart the SEATO effort in Indochina or if he was simply wrong in his assumptions.

I realize he was not a right winger but the political divisions then were slightly different from today.

Political divides are not static or straight continuum

the irony is that back then i was an idealistic left leaning libertarian on many issues but like I said many things were not on our plate like today but yet we all thought the entire media both the three networks and print were staid establishment conservative...and that includes Cronkite.

there was no love loss between the media and the counter culture..aside from some weekly college rags

[jokyfo]

My brother told me a story about meeting Cronkite in Boston in the late ‘60s when he went to college there. He said Cronkite walked over to Students for a Democratic Society booth and donated $50 to them.

That is all anyone needs to know about this traitor.

RIP

[Exton1]

From a VET. Good riddance. My he burn he hell for what he did to us vets.

[Locomotive Breath]

actually I hope wally is NOT with the honorable soldiers and marines he stabbed

Ah yes, but that would be heaven for the soldiers and hell for Cronkite.

[philman_36]

Something to knock off the Jackson meme.

[PLD]

I have posted this once today, but think it should be repeated..Uncle Walter isn't what some American though he was..Just an old Atheist like the rest of the liberal scum..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792972/posts

[Carl LaFong]

I can see Wally now taking his glasses on and off repeatedly choking up as he realizes he’s staring Beelzebub in the face.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]