Comments on: Walter Cronkite, 1916 – 2009

By: qb

qb — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:42:34 +0000

#28

I think MikeN is talking about this tape. Nothing suspicious about it at all.

Nothing suspicious about 6 point jump Bush got either. Nah, Karl’s a saint, just ask McCain after the ‘99 primaries.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:51:06 +0000

ADM was David Brinkley.

By: laxdude

laxdude — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:36:36 +0000

I am too young, I think, to have ever seen Cronkite, I am of the Dan Rather era.

To me Walter will be remembered for odd moon landing coverage viewed decades after the fact, and him whoring out his good name for the agri-evil that is ADM.

While I might not rank ADM with the likes of Union Carbide, but they are pretty damn close. The live in the tit of subsidy and have driven the US down the wrong road.

By: BlackSun

BlackSun — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:04:34 +0000

#13, #26: Walter Cronkite : “I’m Glad To Sit On The Right Hand Of Satan”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTwce_ZLDw

By: talking about my generation

talking about my generation — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:44:45 +0000

MikeN you just stick with Big Bill O. he is fair and balanced just enough to tell you only what you need to here to affirm how you want to think. Cronkite couldn’t hold a candle to him.

His Karl Rove comment was not out of line given all the clever shenanigans Karl has thought up.

By: brendal

brendal — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:28:43 +0000

Even more poignant for me – my dad used to write a lot of the dialogue for him during the NASA space mission broadcasts. One of a kind.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:16:12 +0000

Missed by whom?
Most people never saw him on the air.
And in his later years he became a nut.

“I have a feeling that it [Osama bin Laden’s new videotape] could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I’m a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.”

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:48:18 +0000

I remember a story about Walter. He was sailing his boat off Martha’s Vineyard and was getting too close to the swallow shoreline. Groups of people began to wave him off, he thought they had recognized him and just waved back.

By: Iskander

Iskander — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:30:10 +0000

Why everybody is dying on these 2 damn doomed months !!!!

By: talking about my generation

talking about my generation — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:47:18 +0000

So I click on d_vorak/blog this AM to see stories on Walter Cronkite then down the page Glenn Beck, oh how far we have fallen. May Cronkite’s ghost visit Beck and tell him he’s “As mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”. Na Beck’s just a bad actor visit Murdoch

Thank You Mr. Cronkite for setting the standard so high I hope some day the News can get back up there.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:58:59 +0000

Cronkite was just one man who helped bring journalism to a professional level.

Rupert Murdoch is just one man out to defeat all the great strides made by Cronkite.

By: Cursor_

Cursor_ — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:50:23 +0000

I’ve missed Cronkite since he left in 81.

92 is a very long time to be around. He deserves the rest.

Cursor_

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:28:11 +0000

Bill O’Reilly claims Cronkite inspired him to be the most trusted man to Fox News viewers.

By: uteck

uteck — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:23:52 +0000

Does this mean that we can get wind turbines off the coast of Massachusetts now? Walter was one of the chief opponents.
He had the chance to be part of the solution for the next generation, but it ruined his view, so everyone must suffer for his elitist ‘view’.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/26/sunday/main560595.shtml

By: RTaylor

RTaylor — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:56:07 +0000

A calming voice of reason in a crazed world.