Cronkite: Terrorism a "Revolution of the Poor Against the Rich"

Media Research Center ^ | Tuesday September 10, 2002 | staff

[Nuke'm Glowing]

"We are suffering from a revolution of the...have-nots against the...haves and that's us."

Mr. Commikite, I don't see you donating the millions of dollars you've amassed over the last 30 years. If your so God D**n self-righteous, then give all your money to the piss poor and the dictators of Zimbabwe or something. Until then, shut the hell up you senile old fool.

[Wonder Warthog]

"These countries are self-induced poor because their governments won't give them the freedom to be productive and move about."

Well, not quite exactly that. The POOR in those countries are kept poor because their leadership has/is stealing/keeping for themselves virtually all the wealth pumped into their countries from the purchase of oil by "Western" countries. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, etc. are literally awash with oil, but the proceeds are ending up in numbered Swiss bank accounts to the credit of the Ibn Saud family, the Saddam Hussein family, Gadaffi, etc., etc. IOW, they are kept poor by their leaders.

[Jaidyn]

You're right on. Self-induced poor to me meant the country as a whole, ei, the government. The rich in those countries could make life bearable for the poor but they blame us or are jealous that they can't or aren't allowed to be progressive in their growth.

[PJ-Comix]

In fact, the al Qaeda terrorists were hardly poor and the vast majority of the world's poor do not support terrorism.

Osama Bin Laden came from a wealthy family worth BILLIONS!

Cronkite is an IDIOT!

[PJ-Comix]

country, all of these, most of these other nations of Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, very poor.

Saudi Arabia is FAR from poor and that is where most of the Al Qaeda terrorists were from.

Cronkite is an IDIOT!!!

[Michael2001]

The people of the world "who don't have adequate housing, don't have adequate hospitalization, don't have adequate medical care, don't have adequate education," Cronkite warned, "are not going to live forever in the shadow of the riches that we display constantly."

Cronkite forgets that Osama Bin Laden was a billionaire.

The poor bit is just an excuse. I had 13 siblings and we were dirt poor, we never went out and killed people who were richer than us.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Sounds like Walter needs to donate his considerable wealth to the needs of the state. He can have a small room in a cold water walk up flat for his needs.

Regards,

[F16Fighter]

Someone find a picture of Walter Cronkite holding hands with Ramsey Clark -- we know these two are soul mates...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

someone please explain to me why this man is "the most trusted man in America"?

You see, there was a time, back before talk radio, the Internet and Free Republic, that even conservatism_IS_compassion hadn't seen through the liberal spin inherent in journalism. When they called themselves "objective" with their mighty microphones, most all of us were gulled into assuming that they meant it!

The beginning of the end was the Carter era, when Accuracy In Media (Reed Irvine) convinced me of "bias in the media." I soon got bored with the endless tales of the same old same-old, and struggled to answer the obvious question, why is the media biased? It took years--nay, decades--to begin to clear my head of the marketing (i.e., propaganda) of journalism.

My conclusion is presented here .

[Rockpile]

As a veteran member of the I Loathe CCCPronkite Club I would like to see him go boating with Lord Mountbatten. But we all know that will never happen. Sigh.

But at least at his age Red Wally can't last too much longer. ;}

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Why can't that old fart crawl in a corner and die somewhere?

Perhaps it is the WILD unabandoned SEX he and Helen Thomas are having? I dunno..... :o)

[RJS1950]

Who cares what the worthless old piece of S@%t thinks? He stopped being any kind of reporter back in 68 when he declared on the air that VN was wrong and that we had lost it. He, like the rest became caught up in himself, his image and his democRAT beliefs. Hard to say if he was ever an objective reporter.

[crazykatz]

BTT

[Bigg Red]

We generate the world's wealth and give way too damn much of it away.


Got that right, friend!

That senile old fool ought to shut up or leave the country for good, taking his friends the Clintons with hom.