fox news contributor liz trotta joins us. thought nothing would break through the wall of michael jackson coverage, a long came more comments from one other talky governor mark sanford, couldn't resist telling the world about his soulmate, i.e., mistress. then we have sarah palin if the sheer weirdness of the news conference caught everyone's attention. it's easy to say that the liberal media is caving in on her. yes, they are. but she has given them a lot of raw meat. the woman is inarticulate, undereducated, and i pose this question. what do you think william f. buckley would have thought about her as the standard bearer for the conservative party? i think a lot of this criticism is well deserved. unmentioned in this is max lemonthal piece in the "the nation" about the real reason for her doing this. there is talk, of course, of the investigation by federal authorities of contracts that she and her husband, or she has governor let out. these are only at the stage where we're hearing about this. but it does sort of fit in th

joining us now is liz trotta. and worked with him at cbs news and joins us every sunday at this time. liz, his death recognized because we recognized he was genuine, real deal. fair, honeste, presented the news with integrity. >> that has very much come over. what is amazing is walter cronkite was retired for something like 28 years. and the magnitude of the tributes is what it is. considering he had been out of the daily attention span of the public. you know, it's amazing. i'm reading the verse tributes made -- various tributes made about him. "new york times," they do it again. piece of analysis on cronkite. a nice piece. at the end there are -- there is an admission to three errors including the date of the moon landing. you know, that kind of inaccuracy i must say would not, probably would not have happened in those days. walter was an absolute authority on getting things accurate. so it's really ironic that in the so-called newspaper of record, we would have the three errors in analyzing his success. but i m

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