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Trusting Walter Cronkite

We know no one else will ever be able to say "And that's the way it is." Can anyone emulate his truth-telling?
Joan Walsh

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  • Friday, July 17, 2009 10:53 PM

    CBS letters were fake

    No and, ifs or buts about that. I don't know what Dan Rather's involvement was.

    But that's why there won't be another Walter Cronkite, because we as a society refuse to face facts, draw distinctions, or come to conclusions. We want to indulge in our own reality whether it's Obama's birth certificate or the CBS letters. In short, we just don't believe 'that's the way it is.'

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