Friday, July 17, 2009
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I am sad beyond what I could have imagined. A good, decent, and modest man in a world with all too few of them.
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He lived a good and long life. May he rest in peace.
Thank you Walter. My partner and I of 24 years have the utmost respect for you.
Thank you Walter. My partner and I of 24 years have the utmost respect for you.
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Damn. He was a huge part of my growing up - dinner on the TV trays watching him. I was watching him when Kennedy died and when Armstrong walked on th moon. I can tell you exactly where I was, down to the specific room, watching him on those days.
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What @6 said. There goes the last of the era, when network news was actually worth watching. And nobody covered the space program back in those days as well as he did. He was a reporter, back when that meant something.
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I met him once back in '88. He was a tiny, tiny little man. I think he read news for the lollypop guild before he signed on with CBS.
13
Walter Cronkite began as CBS anchor on the same day I entered the world. I grew up watching him back before much of television journalism became entertainment or Faux News propaganda. I wish there were more like him. Rest in peace.
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What a sad irony that he went literally on the eve of the 40th Anniversary of what was perhaps the greatest story he ever covered as a news anchor.
Good night, and thanks for everything.
Good night, and thanks for everything.
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What a sad irony that he went literally on the eve of the 40th Anniversary of what was perhaps the greatest story he ever covered as a news anchor.
Good night, and thanks for everything.
Good night, and thanks for everything.
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COMTE, I was about to post the same exact thing, but since you posted it twice, I'll just agree and look stupid.
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Well, posting it twice (even though it was a complete accident - I SWEAR) sort of makes ME look like the stupid one...
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The only other act of treason greater than Cronkite's was Jane Fonda's visit to the goons of Hanoi.
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Yeah, @20, keep thinking that one man lost the entire war for the U.S. It had nothing to do with the military strategy, corruption of the S.Vietman government, Johnson & Westmorland, etc. If Vietman could be lost because of one man, it was already lost. Particularly since it kept going for something like 7 years after Cronkite's show.
And yeah, I was there for part of that time.
And yeah, I was there for part of that time.
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Interesting today, listening to Dan Rather talk about Walter Cronkite on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC podcast. First, they got Dan Rather in-house within two hours. Second, Rather's brain. Clearly it's a good brain because he agreed to interview on TRMS.
I'd heard something along the lines of he, presumably with some producers, adrenalined Cronkite out. I'd heard in the W. era that Rather wasn't as smart as I'd wish. Not because of what the Republicans said about Rather but because the new media gave me a chance to hear what Rather said. In Friday's long anticipated, but delightfully long, discussion, you could see interestingly that Rather has amazing control over short-term memory. Respect for that. Yet he kept jumping from idea to idea in a horrible way that reminded me of myself drunk (sic transit gloria mundi), but he kept stubbornly dropping back to premises from the original question and pretended it was all related, over and over again as if French theory that what you say is the same as truth serait vrai.
(If Charles Mudede, a good neighbor, posts anything about this I will not read it. But I will glance at the picture. Charles...)
If anyone figures out how to explain to Dan Rather and me how to think in a straighter line, they could make more money than the "baby einstein" arschlöcher. Bill? Dan? Tim K.?
I'd heard something along the lines of he, presumably with some producers, adrenalined Cronkite out. I'd heard in the W. era that Rather wasn't as smart as I'd wish. Not because of what the Republicans said about Rather but because the new media gave me a chance to hear what Rather said. In Friday's long anticipated, but delightfully long, discussion, you could see interestingly that Rather has amazing control over short-term memory. Respect for that. Yet he kept jumping from idea to idea in a horrible way that reminded me of myself drunk (sic transit gloria mundi), but he kept stubbornly dropping back to premises from the original question and pretended it was all related, over and over again as if French theory that what you say is the same as truth serait vrai.
(If Charles Mudede, a good neighbor, posts anything about this I will not read it. But I will glance at the picture. Charles...)
If anyone figures out how to explain to Dan Rather and me how to think in a straighter line, they could make more money than the "baby einstein" arschlöcher. Bill? Dan? Tim K.?
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