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« on: May 24, 2012, 06:17:47 pm »

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/biography-paints-cronkite-darker-side-175158957.html

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To millions of TV news viewers, Walter Cronkite might well have been the most trusted man in America. But, according to a new biography, he committed unethical, biased no-nos that would get him fired these days, writes Newsweek's Howard Kurtz.
 
Kurtz describes the new book, Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley, as "sweeping and masterful" in its portrayal of the newsman who anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.
 
Kurtz draws on his own first-hand dealings with Cronkite, who died in 2009. After reading the book, which will be released May 29, Kurtz notes that the former anchor was not exactly the man he knew.
 

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In reading this first major biography of Cronkite, I came to realize that the man who once dominated television journalism was more complicated—and occasionally more unethical—than the legend that surrounds him. Had Cronkite engaged in some of the same questionable conduct today—he secretly bugged a committee room at the 1952 GOP convention—he would have been bashed by the blogs, pilloried by the pundits, and quite possibly ousted by his employer.

Kurtz also writes that Cronkite was much more liberal than TV viewers would have thought. He dissed Barry Goldwater on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

In another questionable move, he met privately with Robert Kennedy and encouraged him to run for president, only later to get an exclusive interview to discuss Kennedy's plan to run for president. Kurtz adds:
 
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I am shaking my head at the spectacle of a network anchor secretly urging a politician to mount a White House campaign—and then interviewing him about that very question. This was duplicitous, a major breach of trust.

There also was the time when Cronkite spliced unflattering segments of an interview with Johnson about the Vietnam War—editing that was later undone by CBS.
 
And despite the news anchor's "pipe-puffing family man" image, Cronkite did get into a bit of, er, manly mischief. Kurtz notes a reference in the biography to a night that Cronkite went to an "infamous **** bar."

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[Cronkite] was later spotted dining with a go-go dancer in a miniskirt and plunging neckline. Cronkite drew a bit of tabloid attention for his exploits; I can only imagine what TMZ would have done with the inevitable paparazzi shots.

Indeed, you do have to wonder.
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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2012, 03:58:01 am »

OH, they don't even touch on Walter's real secret that Ameirca doesn't know about; Cronkite was a globalist that was calling for a One World Government. He's on video talking about it at some globalist conference after he retired.

Check this article from 1999...

http://www.wnd.com/1999/11/1492/

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The man once described as the “most trusted in America” has come out
firmly, boldly, explicitly – and stupidly – for the formulation of a
global government at the expense of U.S. national sovereignty.

And, somehow, Walter Cronkite did this at the United Nations last
month in near total media blackout.

Let us now shed some light on this never-ending, elitist utopian
pipedream for a one-world government that will ensure global peace
forever and ever.

On Oct. 19, Cronkite accepted the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists
Association at the United Nations in New York.

He told those assembled, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, that, as a
newsman for CBS, he once had to keep his views on such matters to
himself. Today, as a private citizen, he is speaking out.

The first step toward achieving a one-world government, he said, is
to strengthen the United Nations.

“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.”

He added that the American colonists did just that back in 1776.

Not true. A little history lesson is in order for Mr. Cronkite. In
fact, the American colonial leaders fought for independence from foreign
domination, allegiances and entanglements. Remember all those “You Are
There” historical segments you did way back when, Walter?

Apparently not. He continues.

“We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity,” he warns. “Time
will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the
next few years, we must change the basic structure of our global
community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more
destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic U.N.
federation.”

Not! The imposition of a global government on the peoples of the
world will only result in more war, not less. You can already see the
resentment building today in Russia and China as Europe unifies and
unleashes Euro-cop NATO on the bad boys in the neighborhood.

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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2012, 08:21:35 am »

OH, they don't even touch on Walter's real secret that Ameirca doesn't know about; Cronkite was a globalist that was calling for a One World Government. He's on video talking about it at some globalist conference after he retired.

Check this article from 1999...

http://www.wnd.com/1999/11/1492/


Dan Rather did the same thing. The Media is full of whores.
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