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Cronkite: Rove comment was only a joke!

Posted on 11/04/2004 7:01:42 PM PST by God luvs America

I tuned into CNN to gloat as Aaron Brown whined and caught the last part of the painful Larry King...he read a statement sent to him by Walter Conkout stating something to the effect, "I deeply regret the joke I made on your show about Karl Rove last week was taken as a serious comment."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cronkite; karlrove; mediabias; obltape; oldfart
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To: zeebee

"You don't make jokes about the person who murdered nearly 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001."

Amen to that!!! We should both write the old cuss and let him know that, only I don't have his retirement address! Despicable. He meant it.


41 posted on 11/04/2004 7:31:39 PM PST by demnomo
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To: JanetteS

Walter needs his diaper changed again...


42 posted on 11/04/2004 7:32:54 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: God luvs America

I hate these insulting middle fingers in your face cloaked in an appology. I'm sorry people are sooo stupid they can't tell when I'm joking.

Well wally, if it was a serious remark, it was moronic. If it was a joke it was moronic. Either way you are a moron.


43 posted on 11/04/2004 7:33:07 PM PST by DManA
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To: God luvs America

Walt, let's be clear, you doddering old fart:

You were never my "Uncle". Your brain is simply gone.......so fade away.


44 posted on 11/04/2004 7:34:02 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: God luvs America

No Walter, YOU are the joke.


46 posted on 11/04/2004 7:41:30 PM PST by Starboard
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To: God luvs America

Umm, guess I'm the only one here who didn't happen to hear what the old crap-artist said! Anybody got the "joke" and can recount it?


47 posted on 11/04/2004 7:41:58 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: God luvs America

Soylent green!


48 posted on 11/04/2004 7:49:54 PM PST by beethovenfan
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To: planekT

I saw LKL, and he was not joking.
Walter is an insane socialist commie


49 posted on 11/04/2004 7:51:18 PM PST by MaryJaneNC
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To: God luvs America
"I deeply regret the joke I made on your show about Karl Rove last week was taken as a serious comment."

I find it hard to believe that any thinking person has taken seriously any comment Cronkite has made since about 1956.

50 posted on 11/04/2004 7:51:40 PM PST by stevem
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To: hinckley buzzard

He said something to the effect that Rove was probably responsible for the last minute Bin Laden video in the campaign.


51 posted on 11/04/2004 7:54:58 PM PST by SierraWasp (Discredited Democrats... Concede already!!! Discredited MSM... Project already!!! New Media Rules!!!)
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To: jess35

<<< he deserves to be excoriated for it. >>>

I thought he'd had them removed years ago!!!!


52 posted on 11/04/2004 7:55:25 PM PST by Never2baCrat (I used to be modest, now I'm perfect!)
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To: God luvs America

the real joke was that larryking didn't question him about it (or so i heard)


53 posted on 11/04/2004 7:56:08 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Good ol' Coney Island College. Go WhiteFish.)
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To: God luvs America

Walter had John Kerry do a poll for him to see how to respond to Red America's fury over Walter's idiotic babble.

Kerry's pollsters came up with the idea of saying it was a joke. Walter bought it. So, they went with that.


54 posted on 11/04/2004 8:01:12 PM PST by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (John Kerry--three fake Purple Hearts. George Bush--one real heart of gold.)
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To: God luvs America
Standard dodge for those rare occasions when leftists get busted for their pathological lying or their ridiculous comments; "Hey, I was joking!!!" Can't these guys do anything original?

Larry King sure didn't laugh at Uncle Walter's "joke", but then again he didn't even question it, he just nodded and moved right on.

55 posted on 11/04/2004 8:06:14 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (It's not evidence of wrongdoing just because Democrats don't like the outcome.)
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To: God luvs America
I'm sorry, but this is GARBAGE. I can't believe that Cronkite could have the temerity to try this.

Ten years ago, some wag put together a web site called "Walter Cronkite Spit in my Food!", which described an obviously fictional account of a drunken Cronkite swinging from lampposts and assaulting restaurant patrons. Cronkite sued and got the site taken down, ostensibly because people would not understand it was a joke, and would accept the word of an anonymous website--and ignore its disclaimers--rather than trust "the most trusted man in America".

Now that "most trusted man" defames Karl Rove, not by saying that Rove spit into someone's food, but that he conspired with the worst enemy of the United States. And this is supposed to be acceptable, because everyone will automatically take the "most trusted man's" word with a grain of salt, and see that it's a joke!

The hypocritical old bastard.

It ain't for nothing that Cronkite--Krankheit--means "sickness" in German.

56 posted on 11/04/2004 8:08:34 PM PST by Physicist
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To: CFC__VRWC

You know how it is Walter. Some people just can't tell a joke.


57 posted on 11/04/2004 8:25:12 PM PST by Tripoli
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To: God luvs America

Another old fool that needs to be carted off to the old fools home.


58 posted on 11/04/2004 8:26:56 PM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: God luvs America

They dig up Uncle Walter from the grave every four years around election time and then he goes back to the grave and sleeps for another four years. Most people think he's already dead anyway (and they're not that far off). Say goodbye Walter.


59 posted on 11/04/2004 8:30:49 PM PST by Contra
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To: God luvs America

Stupid is as stupid does.
I wonder which was the Alzheimer induced comment, this one or the last one.


60 posted on 11/04/2004 8:32:20 PM PST by CONGHUNTER
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