Comments on: Walter Cronkite

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:47:04 +0000

I think it’s appropriate on your part. It is so easy for us to simply be nostalgic. And, there is a place for that. I enjoy watching the moon landing . . . yet, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t think objectively about what that period meant in the life of our country. What a crazy time it was. . . and, I wasn’t old enough to sort through it.

By: Dan Phillips

Dan Phillips — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:42:52 +0000

I think expressing sadness at his passing, for his soul’s sake, is appropriate. And he would be a figure important particularly to older people. I’m not quibbling with you at all.

But he has an undeserved image, and that’s my quibble.

Though it has an insensitive title, this post reminds of some of the political facts.

As to the other, here is a bit, and this.

There’s more to be found, but my aim isn’t to pile on Cronkite any further.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:54:42 +0000

I didn’t realize that Cronkite was that anti-Christian. Sobering. One of my children asked if he was a believer, and I said that I simply didn’t know.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:51:03 +0000

I thought about Cronkite’s political bias when I made that post. I assumed that was the case, though I wasn’t sure. But, I simply don’t remember him well.

I wouldn’t be able to handle putting up a post about Dan Rather, for instance, because I remember him way too well.

By: Dan Phillips

Dan Phillips — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:09:54 +0000

I’m afraid that my image of Cronkite is completely overshadowed by his oppressive political bias, revealed as soon as he didn’t have to keep acting; and particularly by his virulent yet uncomprehending hatred for Christians being Christian in any public way.

It does make me thankful, though, that in our day we are not locked in to choosing between only CBSNBCABC for our news and information.

Also, it always saddens me when a man goes to judgment without any sign of having prepared.