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I have been made privy to his position in the ninth circle, in a vision.

Huntley-Brinkley. Best tag-team news duo evah!

I'm glad somebody said it. I haven't decided whether to dance or piss on his commie-loving grave.

Og has crafted a thing, a thing so brilliant and shiny for its truth, it brings a tear to the eye.

Don't know what happened to my first comment, but we must've deserved Cronkite's interminable hanger-on status. Now we'll have the blather of Dan Rather to remind us of where we went wrong. Crap.

Hear, hear!

Anyone who believes the glorifying claptrap about "Uncle Walter" should go read the link I posted in a comment at Og's place.

To repeat the tagline: Cronkite and McNamara have a helluva lot to answer for, to a whole bunch of innocent people...IMNSHO.

The only way we'll ever get REAL news again is if all of these "Progressives" die off.

One down, ten thousand to go!

And let's not forget his famous "These are your children America" while describing the riots at the '68 Democrap convention.

I despised the man. I figure he is as responsible as any one person for the loss in Vietnam...a war the military was winning even though the administrations kept one hand tied behind their back. The Viet Cong was for all practical purpose destroyed when they lost the TET offensive...but Cronkite comes back to the USA and lies to the public sayin' we had lost and couldn't win. If there is a hell he has earned his place in it

I figured on shutting the fuck up on this one. Looks like I didn't have to bother.

Outlived Robert McNamara. I'm thinking it was spite.

Of the many things I hate about Dan Rather, numero uno is that he made me miss Walter Cronkite. Fuck Walter Cronkite. Most trusted man in America? I wouldn't have trusted him to pick up my dry cleaning.

I’d be the harmless presumed-gay guy, always around to talk about feelings in my metropolisexual Clark Kent style , right before I launch a car into the bad guy’s helicopter. Then I have a salad with a random tart off the street, tell her not to follow me as I drag her by hand from the recently exploded mushroom cloud, into the conveniently awaiting tunnel, and………damn, nevermind, pussy is way easier than this…

Years later after he retired, Uncle Walter took enough time off from sailing that whatever of his to lament the "new" media (talk radio, blogosphere, etc.) by pining for the "old days" when "we" could "set the national agenda." As the old military saying goes: "To hell with him, the horse he road in on, and the Col. that sent him."

I always felt a little bit of schadenfreude when Cronkite was largely ignored by everyone after he retired, including his more-liberal media friends and I think it was because an enormous amount of people in those days actually expected reporters to be objective. When they began to realize he was about as objective as Vladimir Putin, they felt betrayed and of course his Viet-Nam reporting just accelerated that. Some fame may be deserved; he lost what little reputation he had left and his death became nothing more than a footnote.

I preferred Joe Pine, myself.

He also sexually assaulted Captain Kangaroo. Bob Keeshan was on Good Morning America in 1983 or 84 and broke into tears talking about it. Walter Cronkite was an asshole. Good riddance.