The has long been a truism that the problem with generals is that they are always fighting the last war. The most famous example is the Maginot Line built by France before World War 2 in which they built a line of fortifications with the thought that the next war would return to the trench warfare of World War 1. Of course the German Blitzkrieg bypassed the forts and led to conquest of France in just a few weeks.
What is true about generals is even more so for journalists. They are still living in the fantasy world of Woodard and Bernstein fighting the good fight against the evil Nixon. So they are in the fixed position of unreasonable self-righteousness and condescension in an impregnable fortress of self regard. The truth blitz's right past them.
Walter Cronkite passed and he was one the first and most egregious examples of this inflated sense of self-regard. He was a leader in fostering the giant ego's and liberal sensibility that has lead the main stream media to the point that they are now dinosaurs chewing on their cud oblivious to a giant meteor hurtling toward them.
They are totally impervious to their impending destruction. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
My grandmother always told me that if you nothing good to say about someone you should say nothing at all.
I have nothing to say about Walter Cronkite.
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I think the guy honestly thought he was on the side of the angels. He wasn't but I don't think he was a malicious dude.
Walt sure was avuncular.
Even old commies eventually die. This is a good thing.
I wonder if they are going to keep him under glass like Lenin?
I'm waiting for the Marlins to come on the tube, and watching Dan rather talk about how John John would have made a great president.
May all Kennedy's learn to drive, ski and fly as well as their elders. Let us agree to exterminate the species. We don't have a moment to lose
That would be an appropriate thing to do with him. Then an enterprising capitalist could set up a rock concession outside and let nature take its course.
You fail to recognize the greatness of Uncle Walter - he sat in a chair for 30 minutes a day, and read a script someone else wrote. And he got paid millions.
That my friend is genius.
Plus he didn't even show up half the time. I remember as a kid, "Roger Mudd" substituting for Walter Cronkite, "Dan Rather" substituting for Walter Cronkite", etc
My first cousin roomed with Roger Mudd's son at Carolina (not the son who came a cropper at Fannie Mae). Did Mudd lose the anchor job before or after embarrassing Teddy in 1980?
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