I grew up watching him as I ate dinner or supper depending where you live all through the Vietnam body count evening news
It’s funny the college radical left and their slightly older masters thought Cronkite was the establishment
Thst was a word used a lot then the kids versus the establishment
Crionkite was a lefty but this Satan joke is rhetorical not literal folks
And you didn’t have to be a lefty to want a world cohesive authority back then
Many of these folks had lived through WWII and their biggest fear is it’ll happen again and they thought a strong United Nations would prevent that
Doesn’t diminish that Cronkite was a red diaper grandpa
The only folks who virulently opposed such ideas were Goldwater types and the Dixiecrats for whom, this was a pillar of their ideology and of course Birchers and Buckley before he went soft
I think all of us, well most of us knew Cronkite was being rhetorical or maybe sarcastic to make a point.
It seemed to me that his wording was a bit ironic too.