Andy Rooney Overcome During Cronkite Eulogy

by Glynnis MacNicol | 11:11 am, July 24th, 2009

Coverage of Walter Cronkite’s funeral was mostly lost amidst yesterday’s cable coverage of Gates-Gate and the Birthers, but Andy Rooney’s grief stricken eulogy to Cronkite — which he couldn’t get through beyond 2 minutes — has been making the rounds on the Internet.

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KatrinasmediaAngel says:

July 25, 2009 at 1:48 pm

In this day and age when many people we meet remain merely acquaintances it is good to see that there are still some people who are really friends. It broke my heart listening to Andy Rooney talk about Walter Cronkite, its like the last of the true newsmen are leaving us without someone comparable to fill their shoes.

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