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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:29 AM Original message |
Walter Cronkite's Family: "He Is Not Expected to Recuperate" |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. My grandmother once told me... |
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cagesoulman (648 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
2. This is a death that will truly be a loss |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. I hope he meets with everyone's approval at DU |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:03 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. May Walter outlive the person you speak of. He's about ornery enough to do it. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Just fucking shut up. n/t |
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jeff30997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Marxist asshole ? |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
22. Why is your issue what some other DUer might post? It's called a message board. Everyone gets to |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. marxist asshole? what's that about? still fighting the cold war? nt |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
43. Hmmm. Someone who refers to Democrats as "Marxists" is a ..... |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #43 |
55. Who said he was? |
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Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. Knock off the dramatics... |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
45. Wouldn't surprise me a bit after these last 48 hrs. I've never |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
54. Well, yeah |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 12:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
59. I will wait for the posts from those who can't stand seeing anybody revered by the press |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. Walter Cronkite probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
32. YES |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
47. Sorry, don't buy that for one second. n/t |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. ...care to elaborate on that? |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. I love Walter & unfortunately I don't think we'll ever see anyone like |
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kayla9170 (370 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
7. "And That's the Way It Is" |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Thank you. Can I share a video with you? |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. the only possible silver lining to losing this great man |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Uncle Walter was a journalist. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. +1 |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:00 AM Response to Original message |
10. The passing of an era, he will be greatly missed. |
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jeff30997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 06:12 AM Response to Original message |
12. Oh man that sucks! |
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Swede Atlanta (906 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. What a tragedy....... |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
15. Just the best |
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donquijoterocket (357 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
30. rupert |
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HowHasItComeToThis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. SO TRUE |
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PSzymeczek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #30 |
48. Walter wouldn't work for Murdoch. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
35. Rupert Murdoch wouldn't hire him today. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
16. in the grand scheme of life walter is far more important than jackson. |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
17. I wish one of his final acts in journalism could have been to call the MSM and say "quit obsessing.. |
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Joanie Baloney (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
18. Sigh |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
19. Uncle Walter |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
21. May Peace Be with his family and friends. nt |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
24. From the days when broadcast journalists began their careers as actual journalists, not as TV or |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
25. Walter Cronkite showed us what true journalism |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
27. God Grant This Great Man A Few More Days. |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
28. My earliest memory of him is of his "You Are There" series |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 03:43 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. That is my very first |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:30 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. My first was the famous Chciago Fire |
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PSzymeczek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 05:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
49. You Ate There |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
29. This is what my mom has now - dementia from multiple small |
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DesertRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
40. I'm so sorry |
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Sheltiemama (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #40 |
52. My aunt had it, too. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 05:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
50. Same with my mom, who left us in 2003. Started in 1997. |
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Sheltiemama (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Your mom rocked. |
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ronnykmarshall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
31. We love you Uncle Walter! |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
34. Great man. |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. I feel we will enter a permanant dark age when the likes of the great Walter Cronkite |
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Cybergata (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
37. Walter is one of the last of the great journalists! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
38. Peace on your journey, Walter. Our thoughts are with you. |
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DesertRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
39. One of his legacies is at Arizona State Univ. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
42. Such sad news! |
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1620rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 08:57 PM Response to Reply #42 |
56. Walter |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Here's his report on JFK. I was 12, and didn't see it live. Saw all else, though. |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-27-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
58. I wonder if his leaving will get the media attention |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 07:09 AM Response to Reply #58 |
60. It will. Hopefully bigger than the last NBC newscaster's send off. |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-28-09 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
61. Man, celebrities are dropping like flies lately. |
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