Posted on 01/16/2006 6:41:42 AM PST by pissant
Walter Cronkite has been old for a really long time.
So long that he thinks it's a good idea to poke fun at people who stutter in front of a room of reporters.
So long that he remembers when the network news operations weren't required to make money.
So long that he thinks the effort of news operations to make money does not affect content.
So long that virtually every story he told at Winter TV Press Tour 2006 Sunday he'd told a dozen times before.
At age 89, Walter Cronkite hasn't been the anchor of the "CBS Evening News" since 1981, but no one has ever replaced him as The Most Trusted Man in America. And so his appearance at the tour to tout PBS's July "American Masters" biography on him drew The Reporters Who Cover Television to him like Jedi trainees at the feet of Yoda, gobbling up his every word on the state of journalism, politics and the war in Iraq:
Mr. Cronkite, can you talk about how that weekend you did a marathon anchor stint during the Kennedy assassination changed the way news is covered?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
go away old man. nobody cares anymore. We NEVER cared.
We never run out of objects requiring scorn 'round here!
It's bent..to the left.
"highly significant"...of dementia.
Cronkite gave an interview to Italian agit-propagandist Oriana Fellaci in Look Magazine in which, asked as to his political affiliation, Comrade Walter breezily denied being a Demnonrat or a Republican because it just would not be appropriate for him as oozemeister of SeeBS News to affiliate as a Demonrat or a Republican. Not taking such an evasion seriously, Fellaci said: No, Walter, not your party affiliation but your political philosophy. Comrade Cronkite (seems to be an equivalent of Krankheit which is German for sickness) replied: Oh, well, I guess you would call me an unreconstructed 1930s radical. Our enemies were so much more capable then!
Then there was the SeeBS "debriefing" of its reporters in prime time (chaired by Roger Mudd (who had remained stateside for insufficient sympathy with Chairman Mao???) after Nixon's trip to Red China in which a young Dan Rather (yes, that Dan Rather!) was in shock and said so when Comrade Cronkite praised the "discipline" of Chinese uniformed workers brushing the snow off Peking's (or however they spell it this week) Red Square with little brushes and small pails. Rather: "Walter!!! Do you know what you are saying????"
What's the frequency, Danny?
I agree. His should be next to the Rosenburgs, IMO.
More proof that libs DO NOT get wiser with age.
The Most Trusted Man in America.
A misplaced trust.
Most Rusted Man, perhaps.
Back in the Dark Ages, before alternative news sources, Americans had limited access to information, and a dolt like Cronkite was taken seriously.
To my eyeballs, the one in the picture seems to be protruding to the right with another bulge on the left, but what do I know? This is not a subject I have nor intend to spend much time on.
Oh, no! What is that picture???!!! Oh, my eyes!
The slow, miserble death of the MSM is a pleasure to watch.
BTTT for later Photoshop work...:)
This guy Cronkite with his goofy far left slobberings makes a good representative for the MSM. He never was a journalist, just a Dimocrat sycophant.
"What is that picture???!!!"
I searched images for 'Walter Cronkite' and that was about the 4th image to pop up. I noticed the file name is "WalterCronkiteAtAbuGhraib".
Worthless? Don't you mean culpable? Don't you surely mean guilty, or at least unapologetic?
He's an ENORMOUS reason why 3 million Cambodians never celebrated Christmas this year.
LOL! Now THAT was a funny post...and of course, the punchline..."What's the frequency..."
He was a freaking newsreader for crying out loud. He wasn't a great reporter, he wasn't particularly smart, and the only reason he was trusted was because in the early days of television no one knew any better. The fact he used his pulpit to express his unwanted opinion on the war shows how misplaced that trust was. He is a useless old windbag.
No, it wasn't Cronkite that got Bill excited. It was the camera.
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