# RIP Walter Cronkite **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395 "2009-07-18T00:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/41 "2009-07-18T06:27:41Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > The man can burn in Hell for two eternities! > > Thanks to him and his wannabees, this country was infected with a huge inferiority complex. > > I remember throwing shoes and loud “F!!! You’s” (not sure of profanity policies away from the Pit) at the TV when tool-of-foreign-interests Kronkite, gutless wannabee Harry Reasoner at ABC,or gutless John Chancellor at NBC would run yet another, “American workers–lazy and spoiled. Third World–virtuous and hard-working on less than a third the wages,” diatribe thinly disguised as news. > > I hope all three are sharing the same brimstone! > [@What\_Exit](#): > > This forum forbids me from saying what I truly think of you opinions. ☹ Me, too. But I don’t think it’s against the rules to call **Zenith’s** post a huge steaming pile of excrement. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/42 "2009-07-18T06:48:47Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > The man can burn in Hell for two eternities! > > Thanks to him and his wannabees, this country was infected with a huge inferiority complex. > > I remember throwing shoes and loud “F!!! You’s” (not sure of profanity policies away from the Pit) at the TV when tool-of-foreign-interests Kronkite, gutless wannabee Harry Reasoner at ABC,or gutless John Chancellor at NBC would run yet another, “American workers–lazy and spoiled. Third World–virtuous and hard-working on less than a third the wages,” diatribe thinly disguised as news. > > I hope all three are sharing the same brimstone! Poorly executed satire, or genuine lunacy? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/43 "2009-07-18T11:32:55Z")
> [@zenith](#): > > The man can burn in Hell for two eternities! > > Thanks to him and his wannabees, this country was infected with a huge inferiority complex. > > I remember throwing shoes and loud “F!!! You’s” (not sure of profanity policies away from the Pit) at the TV when tool-of-foreign-interests Kronkite, gutless wannabee Harry Reasoner at ABC,or gutless John Chancellor at NBC would run yet another, “American workers–lazy and spoiled. Third World–virtuous and hard-working on less than a third the wages,” diatribe thinly disguised as news. > > I hope all three are sharing the same brimstone! **Zenith** – profanity or no, this post is better suited to the Pit. If you want to rant about your perception of the role of news anchors of the '60s in the changing world economy, do so there. It’s not appropriate in either the forum you originally posted in, or in the forum where the merged threads ended up, Cafe Society. If anyone wants to respond to **Zenith** , you can take that to the Pit as well. This thread should be about Walter Cronkite. You don’t have to be all sweetness and light, but please keep the froth and vitriol out of it. Thanks. twickster, moderator for MPSIMS and Cafe Society ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/44 "2009-07-18T13:16:43Z")
Andrew Rooney once wrote an essay on him, stating “If life were fattening, Walter would weight 400 pounds.” The man lived good and lived right. Kudos to his long life. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/45 "2009-07-18T13:29:47Z")
Good riddance to another flaming leftist and promoter of world government. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/46 "2009-07-18T13:53:06Z")
Walter Cronkite actually came up in a recent discussion of _Cabaret_ – see the last couple of paragraphs of [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11097932&postcount=12) post of **Sampiro** ’s. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/47 "2009-07-18T14:14:41Z")
in his own word from his last daily broadcast, “I’ll be away on assignment”. good luck on the new assignment, report back if you can. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/48 "2009-07-18T19:45:46Z")
I heard on Fox that “On Assignment” was the name of his boat. Pretty clever. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/49 "2009-07-18T22:09:04Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I heard on Fox that “On Assignment” was the name of his boat. Pretty clever. Wouldn’t just “Assignment” work better? So that when he was on vacation, he could just say he was “on Assignment” instead of “on On Assignment”? Anyways, while I’m too young to remember him properly, I know he is the newsman a lot of people aspire to be. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/50 "2009-07-19T04:56:44Z")
Roger Ebert wrote a nice little obituary [here](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090717/PEOPLE/907179995). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395/51 "2009-07-19T11:12:34Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Good riddance to another flaming leftist and promoter of world government. Priceless. Predictable, but priceless nonetheless. Can’t you just feel the intelligence, compassion and nuance flowing from this quote. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-walter-cronkite/503395.md?page=2)