according to trusted sources (i.e. family members). He was a great news reader, but I always regarded him as Captain Kangaroo's boring older brother. He played on the water with Kennedys and didn't drown, too. Most of all, he was avuncular.
He was 92.
Think of all the times you've heard or read the word "avuncular." Or guesstimate. Now round it up to the nearest hundred. Because if I were a betting man, I bet I'd bet you you'll hear or read the word "avuncular" more this week than you have in your entire life to this point. He was way more avuncular than Michael Jackson. If you don't think he's way more avuncular, stay away from your uncles.
If there's one thing the media thinks is more important than a freaky dancing transracial pedophile, it's a media giant from the days when television was television, and televisions needed trays. Because you wouldn't think of missing the nightly news. Or you had to sit through it to see Lost in Space.
Hardest hit, perhaps, is Dan Rather, who lacks a dedicated forum from which to drone self-importantly about the death of his forebear 24 hours a day for the rest of the week and get conspicuously choked up.
More importantly, a motivational speaker has been murdered in NYC, which would have been a very good basis for a creepy Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode.
The Walter Cronkite Drinking Game:
Take one drink for each time you hear the word "avuncular," the phrase "most trusted man in America," the sobriquet "Uncle Walter," or a mention of Cronkite in conjunction with the moon landings, Vietnam or any Kennedy. As always, drink responsibly.
Or, you can watch Basiji throw protesters off of roofs, if that's your thing:
Friday, July 17, 2009
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He was a World Governance-supporting sort of dirty socialist...
"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. 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. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen."
But, at 92, he lived long enough to have reported live from the Battle of the Bulge. Prolly the last of the reporters from that era. He saw a lot in his lifetime. I'll give him kudos for managing to stay alive for as long as he did.
Otherwise, I'm in agreement with Vman.
I had some friends in the hotel business that used to tell funny stories of when they worked on Nantucket in the late 70's. It seems that every year Cronkite would vacation there for a few weeks, living on his beloved sailboat that was docked at their hotel's pier.
My pal said that every night uncle Walter would sit in the "snug" at their place and literally drink himself into oblivion. He'd start out lucid and cogent, telling stories about all of his travels and adventures; but by the end of the night he was telling more prurient stories, and oiled up real good...
Every night they would carry him down to the dock and put him in a bunk on the sailboat. And the next day the whole cycle would start again...
My pal worked there for a few summers in a row. And the thing is, that although he might occasionally repeat a certain story, in general he always had original material-over a period of years! His experiences were so broad, varied, and numerous, and his career so long, that he had enough drunken stories to tell, without being reoititious, for the rest of his life!
RIP, uncle Walter. God Bless you and yours, and may He grace your family with the strength they need in their time of grief.
That, Bob Reed, was very classy. You're a good man.
Thanks Serr8d.
I credit my upbringing and faith...
And, you know, some really tough DI's at OCS!
Best Wishes
Walter Cronkite was an American; please lick clean the blade of the knife that you cut your nose off with, serr8d. It dirty, hick.
"...we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty."
Sure, he's an American. Some Americans I just don't care for. You, Charles Manson, f'rinstance.
Comparing Walter Cronkite to Charles Manson - God created you plain stupid, serr8d.
No, comparing you to Charles Manson, thor. You're mentally jumbled, just with a different sort of distinguishing tattoo.
Cronkite had some muddled intentions. But, sure, even though he inadvertently caused thousands of deaths, he was well above your level AFAIC.
In your world every one who even slightly disagrees with your extremist brand of self-annointed politics is Charles Manson-ish.
We get that. You're consumed. Gone.
It's America. You're free to God-complex until the men in freshly starched whites come for you.
Did you mean "anointed", mr. writer guy?
No, I'm neither locked into any steel-cage political bent, nor am I non-susceptible to reasonable logic. My politics are fluid for the most part. Jeff G. has influence me greatly in the past couple years, I'll have to admit. This 'classical liberal' branding seems to fit me fairly well. I do know I'm neither far-left or far-right, although I can act either part with relish if necessary.
Using your sorts of tactics, for example that last PW Pub post that caused Jeff to come roaring out of his hibernation and slap the silly shit out of you, is an example of things I would never do. Not to someone like Darleen Click, or any other non-public figger (Obama is a public figger, you know).
Shame on you.
(Oh, that offending Pub post lives on in my g00gle reader btw, in case anyone needs to see screenshots.)
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