Walter Cronkite is dead/merged

[John L. Lucci]

Walter Cronkite is dead. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/wal...ead/index.html


Shame in his later years he became such a hardcore flaming liberal..

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[Gyrene]

John L. Lucci - I was convinced he was a liberal, all of his reporting years. I was also taught that I should not badmouth the deceased. Uncle Walter was never our friend!

Gyrene OFC

semper fi

[milprileb]

Being a reporter and being a responsible reporter does not always wash.

Cronkite was wrong when he reported the Tet 68 battles and he made America believe we were losing which was not the case at all.

I never slam the dead unless they are NVA , Viet Cong or folks that support the latter.

This man did wrong by our military: shame on him.

[7.62 NATO]

Although it took a bunch of courage for reporters to hump it in combat zones, I'm sure most did it not only for the pay but to enhance their carers. Unlike a serviceman they could always turn down an assignment.
But here we go again getting bombarded due to a loss of a person no more important than a derelict on the side the road
while most are unaware of the names killed this week fighting for our nation.
P.S. Walt......WE WON TET!

[John Kepler]

And at the risk of getting this whole thread dumped "Below the Salt" into the "Private" Gulag...one less liberal in the world!

[Bob Womack]

In Edward Jablonski's book, Flying Fortress, Mr. Cronkite told the story of flying with the B-17s of the Eighth Air Force on a mission over Germany and learning of their hardiness first-hand. At the last minute, the PR officer of the Eighth asked the pool of reporters for volunteers to fly with the B-24s. Two or three raised their hands and were jeeped off to the bases for the B-24s. At the end of the raid, none of the reporters who flew with the B-24s had made it back.

Bob