Dan Rather and Katie Couric are the true disciples of Walter Cronkite. Just a more evolved form of liberal viewpoint and bias. All 3 were and are incapable of discerning their own level of bias. Rather even going so far as to fabricate "evidence" and then state if it wasn't true, then it SHOULD have been. Chronkite performed sychophantic Viet Cong propaganda during the Tet Offensive, branding him as a traitor to those recognizing the circumstances. I do not grieve his death.

Tim...

Thank you.

Your blog post really says it all.

So do the words below...

although Walter Cronkite "conceded he was a 'true liberal,' he defined
the position as having no content at all: a liberal, said Mr.
Cronkite, was one who is 'not bound by doctrines or committed to a
point of view in advance.'

Also during the rest of the interview I just love it when the left use 'I' and 'We' as if they are speaking for all.

Never-ending spin with an agenda these people have and have had for many, many decades.

Propaganda with adoration...isn't it beautiful.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I know Cronkite was the first person to be called 'Anchorman', but wasn't he also the first to be called 'Moonbat'? I don't recall.

Walter Cronkite lived a long life and is now at rest.

Rest In Peace

Yes, good job.  I liked this article.

I grew up hearing the "old man" of the news industry.  The one that all of America listened to and trusted.

But, it was his comments in his latter years that showed what he really was.  That was the Cronkite I did not like.

Debbie Schlussel isn't afraid to speak truth to the real power...

Buh-Bye, Walter Cronkite: He Lost the Vietnam War for U.S. on TV, Had American Blood on His Hands

By Debbie Schlussel

I just heard the news that former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died. And perhaps I will be one of the few with the guts to be real and say it: I'm not sad to see this overrated liar go. Buh-bye.

Cronkite enjoyed a long and glamorous life, unlike many of our late teen and 20-something American troops against whom he editorialized on a nightly basis. They died on the killing fields of Vietnam in no small part because he contributed to the video demoralization of America and the resulting lack of commitment to help our boys win the Vietnam War.

I'm sure that Cronkite will be remembered gushingly by all of the liberal mainstream media robots whom he spawned and who idolize him (and probably many gutless idiots on the right, too). In so many ways, he is their Michael Jackson, minus the creativity and talent. In life, they already exalted Cronkite far, far beyond what he deserved and completely ignored his awful transgressions against our country

But the man they called "The Most Trusted Man in America" was really something far different: The Most Destructive Man in America. And that is how he should be remembered. He had the blood of thousands of American men--some of them really just boys--on his hands.

We may have lost the Viet Nam War on the ground because of half-hearted bureaucrats and politicians, not least among them Defense Secretary Robert McNamara who also recently passed away. But, well before that, we lost the war in a far more important theater--domestic America--because Vietnam's top media general on TV, Walter Cronkite, led many offensives against our troops, every single evening.

Cronkite fought against America while in Vietnam, where he covered the Tet Offensive and lied about it to American wives, parents, and siblings of our boys on the battlefield. While the 1968 Tet Offensive was actually a victory--a tactical defeat for the Communist Viet Cong--you'd hardly know it, since Cronkite covered it as an incredible loss and gave fuel for the anti-war movement's fire and its allies in the Congress and in Hollywood (Hanoi Jane, anyone?).

And it is in Cronkite's coverage of Tet that America lost the Vietnam War. Most military historians regard it as the decisive battle in the war because it shifted American public opinion against the war. And Cronkite is the head atop that rotten fish.

A month later, instead of just "covering the news" in this constant lying manner, Cronkite began editorializing and delivered a scathing commentary against America's war efforts.

Cronkite's slogan was, "And that's the way it is." But if it came out of his mouth, you could be sure of one thing: that's the way it wasn't.

The left idolizes this man because they credit him with helping end the Vietnam War. But let's be honest. He didn't help end it. He helped lose it. We eventually lost it on the field because we lost it on television, first. Vietnam was the first American war shown nightly on television news. And Cronkite was the Just Lose It crowd's Commander in Chief in that theater.

Our half-hearted efforts in Vietnam, in large part because of Walter Cronkite's on-air attacks, have had long-lasting effects, decades later. Even Osama Bin Laden has cited them in his lack of fear in attacking America. He studied our military history, with Vietnam as its cornerstone of cutting and running. That is Walter Cronkite's legacy. So are the generations of liars who modeled themselves after him and have spent decades on TV news tearing and dumbing down America from within.

I can't be nice and say that Walter Cronkite should "rest in peace."

To do so would be to ignore the posthumous wails of the restless ghosts of over 58,000 dead Americans who lost their lives so that Walter Cronkite could be a star and Vietnam could solidify its communist tilt. That's not to mention our 153,000-plus wounded.

It is the souls of these proud Americans that I pray rest in peace, not that of the man who helped perpetrate their loss. He is soulless.

Only they--Walter Cronkite's tens of thousands of victims--can forgive this evil man for his transgressions and journalistic crimes against them. Sadly for Cronkite, they've gone to a better place.

Obama Lied... Jobs Died.

...you folks are getting as bad as the MSM on Michael Jackson.

 Can we stop the endless Cronkite bashing posts, please?

Outstanding editorial on Cronkite:

End of a Despot:  http://wizbangblog.com

"Ordinarily, members of the press enjoy a certain celebrity and influence, but rarely is one journalist considered to speak as the complete authority on the nation's welfare and direction. Cronkite built his credibility to the point, where for many Americans he spoke with indisputable authority. Cronkite played on that trust with his tag line each evening, saying "and that's the way it is." A man never elected by the public, and answerable to no one, could say what he wanted and have it taken as absolute truth by many millions, simply because he was the person saying it. There is no indication that Cronkite ever stopped to consider the moral obligation he carried, or to balance his broadcasts in order to make sure he was as objective as his image."

Read the whole thing.