Walter Cronkite on This Day in History

 

This day in history: After 19 years as the anchorman of the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time on this day in 1981. Cronkite had anchored the show since April 16, 1962.

Cronkite was considered “the most trusted man in America” but don't be deceived, he was a pro-Communist Leftist who wanted a democratic federal world government and was willing to sit on the "right hand of Satan" to get it.

The difference with Walter Cronkite and the MSM today was that he hid it better. From Cronkite and the Fourth Estate:

"With the death of their paragon Walter Cronkite, the true collective face of the Establishment media is exposed once and for all.  It is not the noble visage of an intrepid crusader for truth, but a sagging countenance, oily and obsequent by decades of lying and servility to their masters.  But of course this is not how the press perceive themselves.  They are not like you or me.  They are a special class of beings.  They are the Fourth Estate, an imaginary extension of the rigid class structure of pre-Revolutionary France from the Estates General. In the Ancien Regime there was the clergy, the nobility, and lastly, the bourgeoisie and commoners.  The Fourth Estate see themselves on an equal par with the first two elevated classes, and above the third.  It is the aristocratic notion that gentlemen and ladies of the press serve a vaunted 'public interest,' and do not soil themselves with activities of a rank and sordid commercialism.  Such endeavors would be a violation of their hoary journalistic ethics.  They have a public trust to enlighten the masses in their duties to their betters, those who compose the state and their adjunct servitors in the kept press.  With the passing of Cronkite the stark reality is all too apparent, even to these lumbering dinosaurs." 

"However nice a person he may have been, Walter Cronkite was, more importantly, a model voice for liberal-progressives’ brand of socialism. His lack of understanding about the nature of the Constitution and about the founding ethos of the United States allowed him to warp the minds of millions of Americans with the historicism that characterizes liberal-progressivism." -- Thomas E. Brewton

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Otto von Bismarck on This Day in History

 

Otto von Bismarck was appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire on this day in 1871.

Bismarck masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as its first chancellor until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European affairs for two decades.

The "Iron Chancellor", as he came to be known, was instrumental in uniting Germany. He was a Conservative who hated Socialists, but in order to sway people away from the Socialism, he ended up adopting socialism and thereby creating the world first Welfare State in the modern world. Bismarck's social programs also helped to expand his power. His rule came to be known as the Second Reich.

"In the democratic countries, milder forms of statism were the rule. Most insidious of all was the form that had been invented in the 1880s, in Germany. There Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, devised a series of old-age, disability, accident, and sickness insurance schemes, run by the state. The German liberals of the time argued that such plans were simply a reversion to the paternalism of the absolutist monarchies. Bismarck won out, and his invention — the welfare state — was eventually copied everywhere in Europe, including the totalitarian countries." Source2

"Bismarck explained to an American sympathizer the strategy behind these laws that guaranteed every German national health insurance, a pension, a minimum wage and workplace regulation, vacation, and unemployment insurance. 'My idea was to bribe the working classes, or shall I say, to win them over, to regard the state as a social institution existing for their sake and interested in their welfare,' he said." Source

Bismarck was also very quotable:

"Americans are the luckiest people on earth. They are surrounded by weak neighbors and fish."

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."

"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."

"Politics ruins character."

"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

"One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888)."

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

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