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To: mlc9852; sittnick; ninenot
Any respect for the old communist gasbag was seriously misplaced. In 1968 on the climactic night of the Chicago Demonrat convention, Comrade Cronkite threw a shirtsleeved temper tantrum ranting about fascist cops (apparently competing with Senator Ribicoff's more dignified but equally insane speech nominating George McGovern and calling the Chicago police the Gestapo.

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?

45 posted on 01/16/2006 8:13:24 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: BlackElk

LOL! Now THAT was a funny post...and of course, the punchline..."What's the frequency..."


58 posted on 01/16/2006 8:41:39 AM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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