David, Walter Cronkite was always a mouthpiece for the establishment, and never more so than when he returned from a trip to Vietnam and gave his famous “‘we’ are not winning” statement. People actually think an employee of one of the three federal networks could make such a massively publicized editorial on his own say-so? LBJ had failed the power elite, and it was time for him to go, and for a new tail to be pinned on the presidential donkey. But my favorite item in the eulogies is the myth that LBJ said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” Middle America was a Kevin Phillips, i.e., Nixonian, phrase. And LBJ did not talk like that. He might have said: “That %^# son of a *&^% has @#$% me too.”  BTW, as David Gordon points out, the ancient Greek aphorism is actually: Don’t speak untruths of the dead. I’ve always thought that when the government-media complex is beating us on the head with its lies, as on the glory of Cronkite, there can be nothing wrong with a dissent.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.