RIP Walter Cronkite

[cochrane]

@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.

[Baron_Greenback]

@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:

[twickster]

@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

[Annie-Xmas]

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.

[Crafter_Man]

Good riddance to another flaming leftist and promoter of world government.

[twickster]

Walter Cronkite actually came up in a recent discussion of Cabaret – see the last couple of paragraphs of this post of Sampiro’s.

[rocking_chair]

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.

[ivylass]

I heard on Fox that “On Assignment” was the name of his boat. Pretty clever.

[BigT]

@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.

[Siam_Sam]

Roger Ebert wrote a nice little obituary here.

[Baron_Greenback]

@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.