Walter Concrete Cronkite Gets His Own Moon Rock

"Free Brain Transplant?"


I loved Walter Cronkite when I was a kid.


Specifically, I loved his coverage of the space program.

When NASA was flying something into orbit or off to the Moon and Mr. Cronkite was doing the play-by-play commentary, I got to stay up to all hours of the night to watch and listen to his broadcast on TV.

Since old Walter has been put out to pasture, I understand that he has spent a good deal of time living on a large sailboat and generally enjoying life. He certainly deserves to enjoy a prosperous, graceful retirement.

Unfortunately, like learning that there is no Santa Clause and no Easter Bunny, it’s become obvious to most everybody that Walter’s reporting outside of the fields of science and spaceflight was…shall we say… skewed a bit to the LEFT of center.

Who knew?

Back in those innocent days we thought that the news was delivered by reporters, and political commentary was delivered by pundits and possibly old Andy Rooney.





Today I wish that Walter would take a cue from Johnny Carson and just quietly fade away into his golden years, but he hasn’t so far. The next thing I want to hear personally is that he died peacefully in his sleep when his time finally comes.

Instead, Walter still chooses to sit in front of a TV camera every few days spewing insane ramblings on politics with his faded eyes rolled back in his old grayed head.

Any way, it seems that NASA has elected to give their favorite TV personality his own Moon Rock:

AUSTIN, Texas--NASA is honoring veteran newsman Walter Cronkite.

The space agency is giving him a moon rock in recognition of his decades covering the space program.

Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 until his retirement in 1981, is the first non-astronaut and only non-NASA individual to receive the Ambassador of Exploration Award.

The newsman, once named "the most trusted man in America," covered the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, including Apollo 11 and subsequent moon landings.

Cronkite is presenting his lunar sample to the Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin, which houses the Walter Cronkite papers.

The sample will be displayed in the center's exhibit gallery.

Instead of giving his space rock to UT, I say that he should sell it on Ebay and buy himself some medical assistance or psychiatric care.



And Walter...by the way... please get someone to trim those damn eyebrows…

And while you're at it...take Mr. Rooney with you...


(Sorry Walter...I couldn't resist photoshopping your face a little...)