Died after a long illness. Say what you want about the media today, Cronkite was the real deal...

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I agree 100%.

 

2009 is really becoming eventfull.

 

92!! When you stop to think about all the stuff he's seen and reported on, just incredible.

RIP

 

Damn! He was just about the last of the great ones, wasn't he? That saddens me.

- Jack

 

I remember him reporting Kennedy's assassination, the early space program days, and the Lunar Landing (40 years ago this month). I always felt that he was trustworthy and credible; nothing like those of today. It was as if your Grandpa was telling you the news, I guess.

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Rip

 

They don't make em like they used to, he will be missed.

 

He was as straight up with his word, as a man could be. And he gave a lifetime of valuable service.

God bless Walter Cronkite.

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he was one of a kind...nobody today even comes close.

 

We need more like Walter to report the new's. RIP amd that's the way it is.

 

Cronkite wasn't all good folks, no matter what the media says about him today.

During the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive in 1968, he portrayed that offensive as a loss, not the victory that it was. From that point forward, public opinion was turned against the war and our troops. For which Cronkite was primarily responsible.

 

D/k if y'all are just too young or don't remember but IMO, he was a male jane fonda.

No RIP for him from me. Here's what the headline should be:

PRESIDENT OF THE HO CHI MINH ADMIRATION SOCIETY DIES

 

Cronkite on World Order

"have to give up our sovereignty"...

 

R.I.P. Walter. But you were a leftist hack. When I was a kid, I wondered why my dad didn't like him. He seemed like a good news caster to me– a 7 year old in 1969. Later, I understood what my dad was talking about.

Here is a bit of what he thought about the world and the U.S.A. in 1999:

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen.”