Posted on 07/22/2009 2:16:11 PM PDT by bestintxas
Deceased news icon Walter Cronkite went on the record saying that in his opinion President Jimmy Carter was the nation’s “smartest president,” according to the Media Research Center (MRC).
After the death of Cronkite, the MRC reprised it’s 2006 compilation of what the center referred to as “his liberal leanings on a range of issues,” highlighting some kind words of praise the long-running anchor of the CBS Evening News had for President Jimmy Carter.
According to MRC, at a 2003 forum at Drew University the Daily Record of Parsippany, New Jersey reported that Cronkite said “he feared the war [U.S. invasion of Iraq] would not go smoothly, ripped the 'arrogance' of Bush and his administration and wondered whether the new U.S. doctrine of 'pre-emptive war' might lead to unintended, dire consequences.”
The newspaper also relayed how Cronkite on the heels of his Bush-bashing, added “that the smartest President he ever met was Jimmy Carter” and that journalists tilt to the left because “they see the poverty. They see the want.”
The Drew University remarks were recounted in MRC’s “Walter Cronkite: Liberal Media Icon” – in its self-styled category of “Denouncing Conservatives.” The full MRC collection of what it styles asCronkite's liberal pronouncements since the late 1980 included other categories: “Promoting Liberalism,” “Get Out of Iraq 'Now,'” “Believing in Conspiracies,” “Wishing for 'One World Government,'” “Terrorism Caused by Economic Disparity,” “Pushing for More Gun Control” and “Proud of News Media's Liberal Persuasion.”
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Cronkite: Jimmy Carter ‘Smartest President’(But how many people did Walter convince anyway?)
LOL, Only one person did he convince, Jimmy Cahtah.
I wish ol’ Walter would have kept his Commie-Pinko mouth shut. The whuppin’ Jimmy took at the hands of his own ineptitude, and the best President in my lifetime should have silenced the fool forever, but with the help of sycophants such as Cronkite, he’s like the Ever Ready Rabbit...just keeps going, and going, and going...
One of the things that has traditionally made America great is the First Amendment right to free speech, a freedom exercised by another moron with an opinion differing from Uncle Walt.
Although there is no link, I'm quite sure Herself ("The Smartest Woman in the World"), would differ from both of these opinions, having been hitched to the Slickmeister. Isn't socialist America grand?
He failed as a peanut farmer. He made no money.
THen scratch that...
He’s not smart at picking peanuts...
:)
Ohhh, well. If Jim Wright said it....
“a number of Congressmen and Senators who were present in Washington during his Administration were impressed enough by Carter’s intellect that they had no problem in praising it.”
A lot of people can memorize textbooks and feed it back to the professor....garbage in/garbage out. Street brains and common sense rule.
I have always privately laughed at all the peanut alarmists running around pulling peanuts off airplanes and out of school lunches, lest some one with allergies was anywhere near. That had to hurt peanut farmers a lot.
The Problem with Carter was his ample amount of Book Smarts and minuscule amount of Common Sense Everyday Life Smarts that caused all of his ideas to be theoretical and nothing that was applicable to the real-life situations.
Reagan had a good balance of both and he damned well knew how they applied to reality.
“Reagan had a good balance of both and he damned well knew how they applied to reality.”
Amen. Whereas Obama bought into the Marxist/black power/hate America movement by age 20 at Columbia.
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