Video: Cronkite forgets Saddam Hussein’s name
posted at 10:32 am on March 1, 2007 by Ian
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Walter Cronkite, the former CBS evening news anchor who just won’t go away and enjoy private life, knocked the Iraq war on Wednesday and couldn’t name the dictator who is responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of his own people! He was just put to death only two months ago.
Cronkite: It was a bad idea. A really bad idea. The idea of getting rid of – what was his name, I’ve forgotten his name.
(hat tip Noel)
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I guess Saddam’s 15 minutes is up already. Good riddance.
JasonG on March 1, 2007 at 10:36 AM
“Hey, Bartendar….”
Tru2my2 on March 1, 2007 at 10:40 AM
In the (kaf—) 50’s, Cronkite had a series called ‘You Are There’ about historical events. The school would show them in class a couple times a year. His coverage of the Kennedy shooting, and especially the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo launches were grand. He held a lot of respect with just about everyone I knew. Then came 68/69…he fell off the boat. By the time Nixon resigned he was no longer reporting the news, he was cherry picking it. Just like the reporters today. Instead of ‘That’s the way it is’ it became ‘That’s the way we want you the think it is’.
Limerick on March 1, 2007 at 10:49 AM
We need to put him and Jimmy Carter on a slow boat to nowhere.
infidel4life on March 1, 2007 at 10:50 AM
What is it with these liberal octagenarians who don’t know when it’s time to shut their trap?
Imagine the conversation that we could all enjoy if we got Jimmy Carter and Walter Cronkite in the same room together.
Chad on March 1, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Even though Kronkite is a rabid liberal, I’ve forgotten important names when under pressure.
True Story: When I was picking out an engagement ring, the jeweler asked what my fiance’s name was. I blacked out and couldn’t remember it for a solid 30 seconds.
Looking back, that was the begining of the end.
natesnake on March 1, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Hey Wally, the party’s over.
bloggless on March 1, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Walter Cronkite: The most rusted man in America.
Labamigo on March 1, 2007 at 10:58 AM
LOLOLOLOL!
Pitiful old thing, really.
RushBaby on March 1, 2007 at 11:02 AM
The network lineage of Cronkite, Rather, and Couric. What a legacy. Cronkite doesn’t think before he opens his mouth. Rather still thinks he’s right about the Bush Vietnam-dodging story, and Couric’s a radical left-wing feminist who nobody watches. What a trio of news-reading losers.
liberty on March 1, 2007 at 11:09 AM
I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve always called him Walter “Crockite”. I’ve been calling him that for probably 40 years. Along with (C)ommunist (B)roadcasting (S)ystem, his network.
Jeff on March 1, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Walter could hide his own Easter eggs.
infidel on March 1, 2007 at 11:13 AM
Wally and Helen need to get a motor home and two furry little white rat dogs and retire to Arizona.
csdeven on March 1, 2007 at 11:22 AM
I’ll bet he could still remember Saddam’s name if he was still at large. As in, “Where’s Saddam?”
Jim Treacher on March 1, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Hussein Obama?
Perchant on March 1, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Sorry Walt, but the days when Johnson lost your support, and by extension, America, are long gone.
Thankfully, boobs like this no longer exercise monolithic control of news and information that reaches your average American.
Citizen Duck on March 1, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Nate, better forgetting her name momentarily that calling out the wrong name at the wrong time :-)
Somebody needs to tell Walter it’s time to stay out of the limelight; this is like watching a sports figure past his prime still going onto the field.
dalewalt on March 1, 2007 at 11:43 AM
My sympathies natesnake, perhaps it was an omen.
fogw on March 1, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Allah, your transcript was light on him. Are you getting soft on us? :P
- The Cat
MirCat on March 1, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Thank you for watching CBS, I’m Walter Cronkite and that’s the, um, ah, the. Dam how does that go again? Oh right, and that’s the news, good night.
soulsirkus on March 1, 2007 at 12:06 PM
I wonder if Walter and Jimma are seeing the same physician?
d1carter on March 1, 2007 at 12:16 PM
I started to post “oh hell give ‘em a break he’s pushing 90,” but then I remember that this is Walter Cronkite.
This man was a doddering old fool at 40, and he deserves all the ridicule and scorn a righteous nation can heap upon him.
billy on March 1, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Cronkite also forgot his passcode to the retirement community and was last seen wandering the streets asking strangers “who ordered the veal cutlet?”
JammieWearingFool on March 1, 2007 at 1:19 PM
That’s what I call a senior moment!
Kini on March 1, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Yeah, me too. Then I thought, “Well if that’s the case, he shouldn’t be out in public shooting his mouth off.”
Farmer_Joe on March 1, 2007 at 1:23 PM
We shouldn’t take shots at the elderly, I suppose, but then we remember that Wally’s comments about the Tet Offensive led to the deaths of millions upon millions of people. I sure wouldn’t want to answer for that at the pearly gates.
jaleach on March 1, 2007 at 1:32 PM
Old fool!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on March 1, 2007 at 2:10 PM
a murderous tyrant that over killed a million people with the Iraq/Iran war; murdered tens of thousands of his own people; killed, raped, tortured, and threatened anyone who opposed him; invaded Kuwait and killed thousands while robbing that country of gold, artwork, etc; launched missile attacks against Israel; got his ass kick twice by the US; was found hiding in hole in the ground; and ended up getting hung by the Iraqi people after a lengthly trial The idea of getting rid of – what was his name, I’ve forgotten his name.
Walter, I think it’s time for the nurse to change your Depends and take you out for your walk. And that’s the way it is!
RedinBlueCounty on March 1, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Great job by CBS 5. The Patriarch of CBS News is in town and the bulb lights up. “Hey, let’s interview him so we can make him and us look like fools.”
You ought to put up the other nonagenarian moment, though, Ian. After the debacle of Cronkite’s Iraq War “feelings”, Hank Plante sequed to talk of the early start on the 2008 elections and Cronkite slipped over almost immediately to Obama and how he is rushing it.
Cronkite said he didn’t think it would be a color problem but the problem would be Obama’s age.
Cronkite: “He’s still young. Quite young. In his young twenties. That’s a little too early.”
Hank helped him with that one, too.
Dusty on March 1, 2007 at 2:34 PM
Walter could hide his own Easter eggs.
infidel on March 1, 2007 at 11:13 AM
abinitioadinfinitum on March 1, 2007 at 3:26 PM
I believe in gracious ageing and don’t see much of it.
Entelechy on March 1, 2007 at 3:32 PM
I thought this guy died years ago.
Maybe he did, but he dosen’t know it yet.
Tom N on March 1, 2007 at 3:37 PM
Does this guy even know what planet he’s on?
Lie to us about TET again Walter, so we can relive the good old days of the monolithic MSM.
TheSev on March 1, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Dude, you stole my post word-for-word. Congratulations.
urbancenturion on March 1, 2007 at 8:17 PM
Are we sure he remembers his own name? Or where he is at any given moment? Or…to use the toilet?
thedecider on March 1, 2007 at 11:52 PM
At least President Ronald Regan had the decency to leave the public view when his illness began………
Good Night, Mr. Cronkite, and no matter how hard you try, I feel the deaths of the “Killing Fields”, after you supported the defeat of the United States, and helped turn American’s opinion of the war from “Victory” to “Defeat”, caused us not only to leave, but created genocide, will way heavily upon your soul.
Enjoy your special room with the rest of the “fallen angles”, or do you plan on doing more “damage” before you go?
You keep talking, they keep putting you on the air……. what defeat of America will be good enough?
PinkyBigglesworth on March 2, 2007 at 2:21 AM
Check with me when you’re Cronkite’s age. Or better yet, when you are caring for a parent that age. You don’t like the guy, that’s one thing, give him hell, call him all kinds of names.
But the Depends jokes? A little respect for age is a mark of a civilized society, don’t you think?
honora on March 2, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Place the Depends at the source of the diarrhea, over his head.
Jeff on March 2, 2007 at 10:11 AM