Is Walter Cronkite a man who deserves to be honored for his contributions to American life? Absolutely.Crazy Uncle Wally - The most trusted east end of a horse going west in America.
But for the record, all of those contributions should be honored, however unintentional. For Fox News and every conservative radio show, magazine, website, and editorial page to succeed they had to have an audience. Walter Cronkite, with his relentless, decades-long delivery of his liberal world view as "the way it is" created that audience almost single-handedly.
Thanks, Uncle Walter. What would conservatives have done without you?
Friday, July 28, 2006
Today's hoot!
Ben Stein: