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2003-06-09 Fifth Column
Cronkite: And that’s the way Bush is – arrogant
Walter Cronkite, the former CBS news anchor who advocates the U.S. giving up sovereignty and the creation of a U.N. standing army, is now getting a nationally syndicated newspaper column to air his views.
Hey, why hint around? Walt just comes right out and says he wants American sovreignty abandoned.
Editor and Publisher reports the 86-year-old is slated to begin writing a weekly opinion piece for King Features Syndicate this August, after having rejected previous offers to write commentaries. Why the change of heart?
Oh yes, do tell. We're waiting with bated breath...
In a statement released by King, Cronkite says he's troubled by "our bellicose military policy; our arrogant foreign policy; our domestic security policy that threatens our freedom of speech, press, and person; and our financial policy that many if not most economists believe threatens a national deficit deep into this century."
Your standard leftist response. At least he's true to form.
Glenn Mott, managing editor of King, told E&P Online that Cronkite's liberal voice will give newspapers an alternative to conservative voices distributed by his and other syndicates.
As for his "liberal voice" giving newspapers an alternative; wake up Alice, you're dreaming. Our media is dominated by noted, out-spoken liberals. What masturbatory B.S.
"He's seen many of the major events of the past century – and probably known every president since Franklin Roosevelt," said Mott. "He has historical perspective and credibility."
I fail to see how being old gives you more credibility.
Experience, certainly. But there are millions who experienced the same events that Cronkite did. Thousands who also have known these same presidents. How is he more credible than those who are elderly, experienced the same things, but didn't report for CBS? Are they implying that his reporting for CBS makes him more credible? I'd say that's highly suspect, at least.

In recent years, he's been noted for his globalist views in numerous speeches.
No, surely you jest!
In a speech at the United Nations in 1999, Cronkite said the first step toward achieving a one-world government is to strengthen the U.N.
One World Government is the goal? Where the hell have I been? I thought the goal was world peace, feeding the children, and environmental rescue. How stupid. The goal is one-world Socialism...
"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," he said. "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."
Yes, we all know how wonderfully the UN model works.
So, all it takes is faith in the "new order"? Count me out, Jack.

He was later asked by the BBC if the United Nations had lived up to his earlier dreams for a "Parliament of Nations." Cronkite responded: "I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet. I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law. We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of – germs and atomic weapons."
This old reptile makes my skin crawl. What a pinko, Commie bastard.

The money quote of the whole article:
"Walter Cronkite, the former CBS news anchor who advocates the U.S. giving up sovereignty and the creation of a U.N. standing army"
He's "credible" in the Socialist sense. When you're dealing with your media types, I guess that's all that matters. Sorry Walt, your "One World Government" is quickly losing its luster among the unwashed proles. Decades of corruption, genocide, and ineptitude have a tendency to degrade the reputation of an institution like the UN.

Yet another column I won't be reading by another deluded Socialist who espouses views that would enslave the common man while ensuring himself a place in the top echelons of society.

They tried that. It was called the Soviet Union. It failed miserably.
Posted by Celissa 2003-06-09 06:45 pm|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Can you guys fix my open highlight tag?
Posted by Celissa  2003-06-09 18:59:32|| [www.celissasblog.com/]  2003-06-09 18:59:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Cronkite was the main reason the US lost the Vietnam war after the Tet offensive. The US won every battle, defeated the Viet Cong as an effective fighting force. Finally had a chance to let South Vietnam stand on their own. But nooooooooo. Cronkite decides the war is unwinnable and says so on air and convinces everyone the war is unwinnable. This changed opinions in America and North Vietnam.
Posted by Yank 2003-06-09 19:26:15||   2003-06-09 19:26:15|| Front Page Top

#3 As far as I'm concerned, he's just a windy old hack that can't stand not being in the spotlight, spinning current events to his Commie view.
What a tool.

***Sorry about the highlighting. It looks like I left a tag open on my first comment...***
Posted by Celissa  2003-06-09 19:44:47|| [www.celissasblog.com/]  2003-06-09 19:44:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Cellissa---

You sure picked the Yellow Journalism Award article! heh heh
Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-06-09 20:10:43||   2003-06-09 20:10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Alaska Paul:
I'd boo and hiss if it weren't so true!
Posted by Celissa  2003-06-09 20:55:35|| [www.celissasblog.com/]  2003-06-09 20:55:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Someone please send Walter a prairie dog - preferably from Illinois.
Posted by Old Patriot  2003-06-09 20:55:49||   2003-06-09 20:55:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, Walter chimes in with this crap about every year or so just so people have an answer to the question, "Hey? Is Walter Cronkrite still alive?"
Then he gets on his big sailboat and sails down to his big house on the Vineyard and basks in the glow of the beautiful people.
He's just setting himself up for their adulation.
Posted by tu3031 2003-06-09 22:41:11||   2003-06-09 22:41:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Thank God for Walter. If it weren't for toadies like him, we wouldn't know what the elitists were thinking.
Posted by Scott 2003-06-09 23:28:46||   2003-06-09 23:28:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Why does anyone listen to this guy? Most old timers like me just have flatulence from one end, but Walter seems to have achieved a remarkable ability to not only produce it from both ends, but to market it for fun and profit. (So that's the way it is, June 8, 2003. Goodnight from CBS)
Posted by Anonymous Troll 2003-06-10 00:41:19||   2003-06-10 00:41:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank you Yank, for mentioning Cronkite and his despicable statements on the Tet offensive. The U.S clearly and obviously not only one that battle decisively, we destroyed the Viet Cong in the bargain, yet Cronkite declared the war lost before most of the facts were even in. He is the father of the "rush to judgement" and quagmire crowd. His statements are one of the greatest stains on journalistic history, right up there with the New York Times' Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer prize reporting from the Soviet Union that everything was going just swimmingly in the Ukraine..."any report of a famine is today
an exaggeration or malignant propaganda" as millions were dying thanks to Stalin, he buddy.

Malcolm Muggeridge, who covered the famine, called Duranty the "greatest liar" in journalism. He turns out to be wrong. Cronkite has that honor now.
Posted by R. McLeod  2003-06-10 03:01:32||   2003-06-10 03:01:32|| Front Page Top

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