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“And that’s the way it is… er… was…ah…. should have been?”

by on February 21, 2019


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  • Richard February 22, 2019, 7:33 AM

    When I consider the foolish, naive things I did and believed as a young person, considering Cronkite to have been fair and down-the middle is right at the top of the list. He was nothing more than a pioneer for subverting what little bit of integrity the field of journalism might have once enjoyed. Nothing more than a foot soldier for advancing the agit/prop that so poorly masquerades as “journalism” today. Yeah, good ole Uncle Walter. *spit*

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  • AesopFan February 22, 2019, 10:08 AM

    “He [Cronkite] was nothing more than a pioneer for subverting what little bit of integrity the field of journalism might have once enjoyed.”
    Walter Duranty beat him to it.
    I accelerated my turn right-wards upon learning that Uncle Walt lied about Vietnam.
    And then discovering that he wasn’t the only one.
    In re “Back of the Bus” — I suffered a brief infatuation with the left in college; the black anti-war armbands I wore in HS were inexplicable to my folks, who tolerated them anyway.

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  • Richard February 22, 2019, 10:45 AM

    Walter Duranty beat him to it.++++++++
    Yeah, that’s the thing about the Left and so-called progressives. They have this irrational enthrallment with iron-fisted, functionally insane, tyrants who think nothing of using food as a weapon. Engineered mass-starvation conducted by Stalin in which millions were murdered and survivors resorted to cannibalism? Never happened according to Duranty and the NYT ( I understand that the Times never bothered to return the Pulitzer it was given for that fraud Duranty’s “reportage”).
    And speaking of food being used as a weapon: look who wants to be President someday. Pretty sure freshman congress critter Bugsy would be totes cool with it, too.
    https://tinyurl.com/y5jc22n2

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  • grayjohn February 23, 2019, 10:57 AM

    I remember Walter Commiecrite. He was practically worshiped by average Americans who had no idea what a treasonous monster he really was.

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