Ben Carson: Walter Cronkite was 'left-wing radical' but fair

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Living in a bubble dulls the senses.

Once again, Ben Carson discovers that outside the sealed room of bean-eaters, people will recoil from what he thinks of as a normal smell.

"You could really trust him, even though Walter Cronkite was a left-wing radical, you would never know that," Carson said.

Cuomo took exception to some of what Carson said.

"I don't accept that about Walter Cronkite," Cuomo said. "I happen to have known him, he was a mentor to me. He was trusted because he was even, and he covered things from both perspectives, shading as he thought appropriate. That's the job right?"

"What I said about him is actually complimentary," Carson responded. "This is the way it should be. Your personal feelings should not enter into the way you disseminate the information."

Chris Cuomo falls short of the appropriate response, which is...

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1. Cronkite and the Kennedy machine.

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2. He did admit to being very biased...

after leaving CBS. This is a nonstory.