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Poster: cream-puff-war Date: Jul 20, 2009 10:58pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

I missed the originall or repeat broadcast of the Moon Landing with Walter anchoring, and missed the Nixon welcome back thing.

But if what you say ('bout Walter) is true, it's a good insight into his persona.

BTW, I went conservative in '68, living in Colorado that year, Nixon - I was just a young teenager but I thought Nixon was "the one".

Then back in California, the following year I attended a free screening at radical SF State (College) of Nixon's "Checkers" speech...
and all around me, students were snickering...
it altered me forever.

Insanity is contageous.

The clincher was seeing Monkey Business on the big screen in '69 (The Marx Bros. zany crazed classic, pure anarchy).

Never been the same since!

B

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Poster: oh_uh_um_ah Date: Jul 21, 2009 2:34am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

It's true about Walter talkin while Neil spoke those famous words...Walter and Eric Sevareid aka "The Grey Eminence" could not stand to be quite for a moment.

The Marx Brothers were great, but I've always had a thing for the 3 Stooges...

CHECK EM OUT:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/23067/the-three-stooges-collection-punch-drunks

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Poster: cream-puff-war Date: Jul 21, 2009 2:56am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

The 3 Stooges, now we're talking realm of the gods!
They was geniuses.

nyuk nyuk nyuk!

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Poster: spacedface Date: Jul 21, 2009 8:01am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

Nixon was a crook.

And selling out to China by shipping our jobs overseas, the start of deficit spending to hide the costs of war, domestic spying, dirty tricks, etc is a legacy that takes awhile to burn off.

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Poster: oh_uh_um_ah Date: Jul 21, 2009 12:13pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

THE LIBERALS STILL HATE NIXON....THEY'VE TAUGHT THE HATE TO THEIR KIDS NOW....HATE HATE HATE.....HATE NIXON, HATE REPUBLICANS, HATE AMERICA, HATE FREEDOM, HATE CHRISTIANITY...HATE HATE HATE.... NIXON = NEVER CHARGED WITH A CRIME NIXON = NEVER CONVICTED OF A CRIME NIXON = INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY NIXON = GREAT AMERICAN HERO CLINTON = IMPEACHED CLINTON =DISBARRED CLINTON = STAIN ON AMERICA NIXON LOVED AMERICA MORE THAN HIMSELF, CLINTON LOVED HIMSELF MORE THAN AMERICA. THE CLINTON'S = CARD CARRYING COMMIES NIXON = FIRST MAN ON THE MOON NIXON = HAS A PLAQUE WITH HIS NAME ON IT ON THE MOON...for all your alien friends to see...won't it be a shame when they come to see you and you say you hate NIxon, they will be confused...they might ZAP you and turn you into vapor...man....(_____0_____)
This post was modified by oh_uh_um_ah on 2009-07-21 19:13:38

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Poster: bluedevil Date: Jul 21, 2009 12:56pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

Nixon wouldn't make it through a GOP primary these days - he would be too liberal.

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Poster: William Tell Date: Jul 21, 2009 1:52pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: RIP Walter Cronkite

Hmmm--do some homework on Tricky Dick and his time in CA.

Yes, I afraid he is guilty of much more than "charged with a crime".

This is a fact, and he admitted it. Fraud, libel, slander. Now, it is true that many folks, him first of all, few these CRIMINAL acts as "necessary evils" of campaigning, BUT do not for a minute think that he was not guilty of any number of such crimes.

I would think you would lionize these acts as what he and McCarthy had to do to stop the Yellow Menace...how on Earth could you be a supporter of Nixon and not agree with him that sometimes the ends justify the means?

He said that repeatedly.

You sir, are not fit to speak of Dick as a hero.