CRONKITE: KARL ROVE BEHIND BIN LADEN TAPE

Drudge Report ^ | 10/30/04` | Matt Drudge

[conservative in nyc]

CRONKITE: KARL ROVE BEHIND BIN LADEN TAPE Sat Oct 30 2004 16:31:19 ET

Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.

Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN.

Cronkite said he is "inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."

Interviewer Larry King did not ask Cronkite to elaborate on the provocative election eve accusation.

Developing...

[Ethyl]

I hope the boys with the nets are on their way to the Vineyard to capture this old coot before he goes running off a cliff chasing seagulls........

Why? Let this particular "old coot" go flying, some brain dead people still put stock in him? What a bunch of fools

[theDentist]

He's an old has-been crank and he jealous that no one listens to him any more.

[MEG33]

Arafat , now Walter..dementia must be epidemic.

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe! Yeah, really. :^)

[broadsword]

Oh, for crying out loud! Put Cronck-o-shite back in his formaldehyde jar.

[LowCountryJoe]

It would take me too long to read through the 300+ posts to see if this has already been posted. Just know that a fellow FReeper called this first yesterday afternoon. Look:

Post#283

[VOYAGER]

The liberal leftist news media is still digging up the dead ones to spout their dead mantra.

Hey ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSMBC you'all just don't get it do you, this is the 21st. century dumb dumbs, get a life!

[fabriclady]

Years ago I thought he was the only newsman to watch. Boy, was I wrong. That old weathered, frustrated, evil, drunk has been, and I don't cuss, so I can't say what I am thinking.
He just found a way to get his one sided face with the one sided view in the news.
May he just float out on his yacht and not return.

[psyop_man]

The insipid assertion that Rove is some sort of puppet master just reveals how conniving the left is and resents the successes of true master of the game who shames them with his principles intact. Furthermore, why is it that Walter wasn't charged with anything short of treason during the Viet Nam war?

[BigSkyFreeper]

It just confirms that the Most Rusted Man In America has fallen off his rocker.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Arafat , now Walter..dementia must be epidemic.

It does seem to be contagious on the left.

[cartoonistx]

When poor ol' Uncle Walt looks in his rear view mirror all he sees is the bend he went around years ago!

[sevry]

He was apparently ordered to do it by Richard Salant

'Fraid not. Cronkite has boasted, for years, that he stopped the war - and consequently cost a lot of men their lives, and long captivity as POWs. Way-a-go Walt. Commie bloodbath, he'd say, WHAT Commie bloodbath?

So now it's all his news director's fault. Maybe Walt is feeling a tinge of conscience, after all this time. Maybe he's feel a tad guilty with all those dead on his hands. Maybe. Then again, Kerry doesn't. That would make Walt Cronkite a more moral man than the guy now picking his cabinet for when he wins the US Presidency, even if he has to steal the election to win.

[diss-a-lib]

That is going to take a little longer, sorry.

[diss-a-lib]

why? let him run.thank you

[diss-a-lib]

I read somewhere that Cronkite was the lead reporter for the Lincoln/Douglas debate.

[Snapple]

Did anyone see this on Larry King? Was Cronkite perhaps making a little joke?

[diss-a-lib]

Give the guy a break, he's just a demented old liberal, he's free to say whatever he feels like saying, no one but the left pays any attention to his semi-lucid rantings.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I read the transcript. Sounded senile, not joking to me. LK had to keep helping him remember dates of the last election.

[diss-a-lib]

He was going to, but he forgot.