Walter Cronkite is dead at age 92

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:34 am

Damn. I'll miss him. There will never be another.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:53 am

Won't miss'em a bit.

Going on the air in the middle of a shooting war with your opinion that it is unwinnable is treason.

Good riddance, wally.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:58 am

Loved the "You Are There" and "20th Century" stuff. Very informative and something lacking on main network TV these days for the most part.
Even so-- "today was a day like all days---filled with the events that alter and illuminate our times."
RIP Walter !
Oh--and I forgive you for not pronouncing February in the accepted manner and making your way part of our language.

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:02 am

smackaholic wrote:Going on the air in the middle of a shooting war with your opinion that it is unwinnable is treason.

He called it and changed public opinion. If not, where would we be?

TheB-LoSmack · Post by **TheB-LoSmack** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:33 am

RIP to "The most trusted man in America."

Out

Th · Post by Th » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:42 am

Bobby42 wrote:Damn. I'll miss him. There will never be another.

Yeah maybe, so . . . . . . . . . . who had him in the death pool?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:46 am

TheB-LoSmack wrote:RIP to "The most trusted man in America."

Out

The B-LoSmack?

Yeah, you've been OUT for awhile... how about you take a punkazz dipshit like Screwed with you?

Nevermind... trash takes itself out eventually.

.m2 · Post by **.m2** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:58 am

mvscal wrote:Good riddance to a sad, sick piece of dogshit.

Comical.

You do know you're a beaner with 22,000 posts on a shit message board.

You calling anyone sad... is good comedy.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:30 am

Bobby42 wrote:
smackaholic wrote:Going on the air in the middle of a shooting war with your opinion that it is unwinnable is treason.
He called it and changed public opinion. If not, where would we be?

No, he didn't "call it". Calling it would have been more like "Well, charlie did come in here for a road game and put up a good effort. And then we killed his ass".

Tet was a military failure, but, it was a political victory, thanks in part to "the most trusted man in America".

Not saying the outcome would have been different had he stuck to just reporting rather than editorializing, but, he sure the fukk didn't help things.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:19 pm

smackaholic wrote: Not saying the outcome would have been different had he stuck to just reporting rather than editorializing, but, he sure the fukk didn't help things.

It's not the media's job to "help things".

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:06 pm

Martyred wrote:
smackaholic wrote: Not saying the outcome would have been different had he stuck to just reporting rather than editorializing, but, he sure the fukk didn't help things.

It's not the media's job to "help things".

When it's your fukking country, yes it is. And not only did he not help things, he misrepresented what happened and certainly helped things for the commies.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:10 pm

Martyred wrote:
smackaholic wrote: Not saying the outcome would have been different had he stuck to just reporting rather than editorializing, but, he sure the fukk didn't help things.

It's not the media's job to "help things".

He's just pissed because he missed his chance to come home in a body bag.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Jul 18, 2009 2:23 pm

smackaholic wrote: When it's your fukking country, yes it is.

Phibes would agree with you. I wouldn't.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:30 pm

BSmack wrote:
Martyred wrote:
smackaholic wrote: Not saying the outcome would have been different had he stuck to just reporting rather than editorializing, but, he sure the fukk didn't help things.

It's not the media's job to "help things".
He's just pissed because he missed his chance to come home in a body bag.

No, I'M pissed that he missed his chance to come home in a body bag

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:15 am

mvscal wrote:
TAVIS SMILEY: I believe that he can be a great president. But only if we help make him a great president. It is not left to his own devices, it's not going to happen. We have to help make him a great president.

You picked Tavis Smiley as an example?

Dude, he's the first journalist I'd waterboard.

Plus 10-15 years hard labour.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:56 am

Martyred wrote:
You picked Tavis Smiley as an example?

Dude, he's the first journalist I'd waterboard.

I'd pick Olbermann.... and then Matthews.

Blueblood · Post by **Blueblood** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:33 am

It was a much more civilized era

Compare Cronkite's elegant, respectful, but devastating critique of the Vietnam war in 1968...

It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out, then, will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

....with the incoherent rantings we hear on Fox News or MSNBC.

the truth

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:04 am

Good point, B-blood. Cronk was dead on with Vietnam. Who wasn't? Who actually thought such a rash and abominable assault on a distant land could somehow "succeed"? Perhaps General Curtis LeMay (aka General Jack D. Ripper) and similar demented lunatics? Uncle Walt did something at least. Sure, we'd have loved if he'd looked America in the eye and declared the Warren Commission a treasonous scam, and if he'd called some bullshit on the utterly nonsensical FBI official conclusion of the assassination of MLK, and how about if he'd really rode herd on the Reagan gang--surely the most brazen criminal entity to occupy the executive office until Cheney...and how about if he'd actually owned up to our vile dealings in the Middle East?

The fact that Avi immediately starts a warped meth dance on his grave reveals yet again his gnashing living hell. How sad that such people live and gasp through the day.

Terry in Crapchester · Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:19 am

LTS TRN 2 wrote:and how about if he'd really rode herd on the Reagan gang--surely the most brazen criminal entity to occupy the executive office until Cheney...

In fairness, that one ain't on Cronkite. Reagan got an extended honeymoon due to the assassination attempt, and Cronkite retired before the honeymoon was over, for all intensive purposes (Shoalzie reset intentional).

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:36 pm

Is he still dead?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:35 am

mvscal wrote:It took them three years to reconstitute ...

But they did reconstitute. Because they moved forward, constantly. There was no "quit" in the Vietnamese resistance and if you believe anything to the contrary, you pretty much are an empty paper bag.

When Ho was digging deeper, your boys, who wanted to go home to mom, were getting strung out on junk.

Eternally, you prove that you are completely envious of the resolve of your enemies, regardless of whether they won or lost.
Your "soft" nation, even in victory, completely embarrasses you. That's obvious.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:29 am

mvscal wrote: Except that they didn't. They committed their entire army to the offensive and got absolutely mauled in the process.

Big fucking deal. The majority of engagements were with the VC, not the NVA. Also the overwhelming majority of sorties were flown over South Vietnam. This is a fact generally forgotten by Americans, if ever reported at all.

The harder you bombed targets in the South...the more operations you carried out against VC in the South (who had popular support), the more your fate was sealed.

KC Scott · Post by **KC Scott** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:38 am

can someone wytch Walter into this - tia.......

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:51 am

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:52 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

We can only hope.

Although it shouldn't be long, considering all the disease-ridden tramps he's claiming to boink.

T1B

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