Walter Cronkite would be "happy" to marry a man.

Fox news. O'reilly Factor

[Jeff Gordon]

Bill O'Reilly reports that Walter Cronkite has recently said that he would not mind marrying a man.

[RoseofTexas]

YUCK! Nasty ol' FART!!

[Enterprise]

I'm sure any number of liberal Democrat males would like to marry uncle Walter.

[Lawgvr1955]

Uncle Walter jumped the shark back in the 70's.

[Consort]

Dan Rather would make him a good spouse.

[Baynative]

I think he's got his eye on that chubby little munchkin from Hyannis - Teddy Bear

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe he wants to make chocolate babies...(a confection in the 50s)

[writer33]

Walter's too old for women now. Probably the only reason he said that. That being said without riling the seniors here at Free Republic.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I dunno, most gays I know seem to be pretty obsessed with physical attractiveness and youth. Nothing sadder than an old queen...

[Southern Federalist]

I think it's just terrible, this media exploitation of the senile.

[Ethyl]

Bill O'Reilly reports that Walter Cronkite has recently said that he would not mind marrying a man.


Wally, eat dirt and die! We have had enough of you and your drivle. Try drivling dirt. I learned this phrase from a card carying member of the NEA. Too stupid to throw away the card.

[Catalonia]

Translation: "I actually would have serious problems marrying a man, particularly if I had to consummate the marriage, but I pretend like I wouldn't to advance a political agenda with which I agree, hoping that a lot of nitwits who grew up watching me on TV will be swayed by my position."

(Shows you how easy it is to posture as 'enlightened', doesn't it, and how ridiculous this posturing really is .... Sorta makes you wonder how unbiased his 'reporting' was, as well, dontcha think?)

[rintense]

Posted here already, but I'll post my reply to his interview here, just for laughs:

WHAT HE SAID: "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex ... It just never came up in our particular relations."

WHAT HE MEANT: "I'm open to anything, but my wife is really just my beard."

What he said: "I was really disappointed because I was out making popcorn. I spent a lot of time in the next couple days hoping to see a replay. And then in the replays I didn't see anything at all of interest."

WHAT HE MEANT: "Yeah, I was sad I missed it, but watched on the internet over and over again hoping to see Justin Timberlake tear away his pants."

WHAT HE SAID: On his "Most Trusted Man in America" tag: "Nobody polled my wife."

WHAT HE MEANT: "I clearly have issues. My wife doesn't trust me, and probably trusts me less since I said I would marry a guy."

WHAT HE SAID: On presidents: Ronald Reagan told the best dirty stories, and Jimmy Carter "... knew so much about everything and was not timid about telling you about it." Herbert Hoover, Cronkite says, was an economist, and "about as interesting as most economists."

WHAT HE MEANT: "I would marry Ronald Reagan."

WHAT HE SAID: "Our arrogant stand in nearly all our diplomatic approaches to the rest of the world with this administration has been such as to deeply embarrass the United States."

WHAT HE MEANT: "Had President Bush handled Vietnam the way he handled the events after 9-11, I clearly wouldn't have editorialized that war. I mean, GWB is from Texas. And I like men from Texas."

WHAT HE SAID: On President Bush: Cronkite sneers at what he calls "the Bush administration's facade of self-righteous certainty."

WHAT HE MEANT: "I like men from Texas who think decisively and act quickly and accordingly... well, not TOO quickly, if you catch my drift."

WHAT HE SAID: "vent my rage and let the chips fall where they will."

WHAT HE MEANT: "Man, this closet is stuffy. Sometimes you just gotta let loose and shake your booty til the sun comes up!"

WHAT HE SAID: "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex ... It just never came up in our particular relations."

[uvular]

I heard Rush mention this the other day, apparantly it was something Walter said during a recent interview, for a magazine, I think.

He said something along the line that he just 'happened' to fall in love with a woman; if he'd of fallen in love with a man, he would have 'married' him.

Now, doesn't that fly in the face of the liberals claiming homosexuals are born that way??

[VOA]

Bill O'Reilly reports that Walter Cronkite has recently said that he would not mind marrying a man.

Looks like Uncle Walter needs to visit the endocrinologist for
some testosterone therapy!

And a conservative Christian/Jewish clinical psychologist to get his
head screwed back on right.

[Savage Beast]

Some gay guys like older men. There's somebody for everybody.

[PeteFromMontana]

Dan Rather would make him a good spouse.

Or Andy Rooney

[Joee]

Ain't he close with the Slime Clinton? I hope that he practices "safe sex" with Billy as there will be much "passing around."

[Welsh Rabbit]

True enough. Also having plenty of money helps...

[TonyM]

You beat me to it. They would make a lovely pair.

[VOA]

Now, doesn't that fly in the face of the liberals claiming homosexuals
are born that way??

Homosexual activists play it either way...depending on the situation/audience.
I remember hearing Randy Shilts (sp?), the gay journalist from San Francisco do this.

I remember hearing him in some interview using the (in my words) "it's genetic, you
can't punish us because we've known we're gay since before grade school" explanation.

A couple years later, he was on ABC NightLine commenting on the debate
over the "don't ask, don't tell" proposal for the US military.
At that point he trotted out the (in my words) "you can't punish military
personnel for being gay...lots of them are young and just figuring out their
sexual orientation" behavioural explanation of homosexuality.

IIRC, Shilts died soon after that appearance from AIDS/HIV.
I think he also wrote the book "And The Band Played On", a diatribe that
as much as blamed Ronald Reagan for AIDS/HIV...and got made into a cable (HBO?) movie.

I've got to hand it to the gay lobby.
They are better than trial lawyers (like John Edwards) at twisting reality and words.
Even without AIDS/HIV dementia.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Janet, pick up the red phone.

[TaMoDee]

Let's be PC here. Rosie would make a great guy!

[oldgrunt]

Ah, yes. Gay pride and the political baggage that trails along. It's a celebration of abnormality. They should just start up a circus. Walter just came from the old school - don't say anything and watch where you go and watch what you do when you get there. If you have enough money, you can just smear your detractors.

[God luvs America]

The more Cronkite speaks the less I like him and realize he pulled one over on the American people....could you imagine him saying something like this on the Tiffany network in the 60's???

[NYC GOP Chick]

Ewwwwww!

[pikachu]

As a comic once said, as your parents get older they get to look alike -- mom grows a mustache and dad get tits. Walter probably has both.

[Enterprise]

PSome gay guys like older men. There's somebody for everybody."

Ah yes. I can just picture Barney Frank cuddling with Walter Cronkite while Dean Martin croons in the background - "Everybody loves somebody sometime."

And they chuckle as Barney jokes:

"There's no tool like an old tool."

[Don Joe]

Walter Cronkite would be "happy" to marry a man.

His wife probably said the same thing.

[Pipeline]

Next step for homosexuals: Its genetic and a handicap to be gay ( like Downs syndrome )and they need special government programs to help them cope with their condition. AIDS treatment programs, counseling, support groups (read:dating service ), affirmative action considerations, ad nauseum.
Homosexuals can only survive in an advanced and prosperous society such as ours. Seems like inverse evolution. Instead of survival of the fittest its advancement of the weakest mutations. Left alone they would become extinct.

[hgro]

Walter Cronkite would be "happy" to marry a man.

And so would his wife.

[VOA]

Seems like inverse evolution. Instead of survival of the fittest its advancement
of the weakest mutations.

Sidebar: here in Los Angeles, there are a number of public service announcements about
the increase in "premature births", often with the voice-over of an
understandably-concerned parent breathlessly imploring "My baby was born
premature...and no one can tell me why..."
Obviously, it's our tax dollars and airwaves being used to drum up funding for
research (not a totally ignoble goal).

I'm not a doctor...and am really compassionate for the premature infant and parents...
but I'm waiting for some politically-incorrect person to say
"Ya' think a couple of generations of pediatric intensive care saving premature
babies who then grow up to have babies might have something to do with that?
Or maybe that a few generations ago, we didn't have an epidemic of pre-mature babies...
then they just died, were buried and the parents tried again."

[Agnes Heep]

He should try having sex with one first. Maybe a baby would grow in his tummy.

[davisfh]

"Bill O'Reilly reports that Walter Cronkite has recently said that he would not mind marrying a man."

Do you mean to tell me that my favorite newsguy, Walter Cronkite, is a turd denter? I'm crushed! Just crushed!

[nmh]

Time for him to go to San Franciso and hook up with one?

[nmh]

Maybe that's why dear Walter is being cagey. If he is an old queen, well you know how sensitive they are ... he may not want his precsious feelings hurt.

[nmh]

"Some gay guys like older men. There's somebody for everybody."

Hey a young male gigolo could clean him out of his fortune in no time with ole Walter not knowing what hit him.

[nmh]

Hey, maybe Walter believes it beats prune juice!

[Paleo Conservative]

"Dan Rather would make him a good spouse."

Or Andy Rooney

Or Bill Moyers.

[Paleo Conservative]

I bet Jane Curtain is embarrassed.

[Texasforever]

He always did look like a really ugly woman to me.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Have your fun. I've been watching the guy making the last rounds and it's obvious that he's tipped over into senility. I think it's tragic that no one close to him is willing to stand up and spare him this final embarrassment. They won't let him sail anymore because he wants to play "Anchor", why can't they control him now?

[Paleo Conservative]

it's obvious that he's tipped over into senility.

So what was his excuse 40 years ago?

[NewRomeTacitus]

He had no excuse. He was always a communist patsy who learned the art of presentation from the master deceiver himself: Edwin R. Murrow. The unearthed Soviet archives display unusual high humor over their use of both of those men as tools.

So you're right. Let old Walter take the rope in his dentures and jump overboard.

[Paleo Conservative]

The unearthed Soviet archives display unusual high humor over their use of both of those men as tools.

Could you please give me a link to an article or book discusssing this? I don't speak Russian, and I don't have time to dig through the KBG archives.

[Radioactive]

Yeah, I can hear him now on his honeymoon with his boyfreind.......Bend over Cronkite........and Walter then says......and that's the way it is.

[3catsanadog]

How old is Cronkite???? Could be we are seeing a bit of senile dementia.

Lord, I hope that's what it is. Unless, of course, Walter is coming out of the closet since it's the fad du jour now.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, that's an angle that hadn't occurred to me.

[Pipeline]

Eloquently stated!

[NewRomeTacitus]

After two days of research I concede that I was mistaken. Between “Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America” by John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr, “Treason” by Ann Coulter and several former-KGB officers telling reporters what they think they want to hear I failed to sift the facts from unproven rumors. I thank you for calling me on it, for it resparked my interest in the matter of Soviet influence during the Cold War. In one documentary a former officer chortled over the Francis Powers shoot-down and the following incident:

“One of the most prominent attacks on McCarthy's methods came in an episode of the TV documentary series See it Now, by respected journalist Edward R. Murrow , which was broadcast on March 9 , 1954 . Murrow's program was devoted to McCarthy's treatment of Annie Lee Moss, a clerk in the Pentagon code room. McCarthy claimed that she was a member of the Communist Party, and consequently should not be allowed to work in a sensitive Pentagon position. Moss was a very sympathetic figure, an elderly African American woman. When asked by McCarthy's committee about Karl Marx , she replied "Who's that?" She stated that there were three entries for "Annie Lee Moss" in the Washington, DC phone book, and suggested that the "Annie Lee Moss" appearing in the membership list of the Communist Party was somebody else, and the fact that this "Annie Lee Moss" was listed with her address was due to a mistake. She also received the Communist periodical The Daily Worker delivered to her house, but contended that this too was the result of a mistaken address. There was no other "Annie Lee Moss" listed in the phone book, but this fact was not checked at the time.

The Murrow report sparked off a nationwide popular opinion backlash against McCarthy, which the Senator tried to counter by appearing on the show himself. McCarthy appeared on See It Now about three weeks after the original episode, where he made a number of personal attacks and charges against Murrow. However, his method of delivery had been designed for a live audience, not a nationwide broadcast one; the result of this appearance was a further decline in his popularity.” That can be found at:

http://www.tutorgig.com/encyclopedia/getdefn.jsp?keywords=Joseph_McCarthy

One of Free Republic’s members contributed this analysis:

“Ed Murrow of CBS was the first media hero. He lead the charge against McCarthy. He was the first to oppose McCarthy and lead the pack journalism that did Joe in. It was what made EDWARD R. MURROW the hero of the left. The media had been pretty right wing before. But when Ed came out of the closet, he did so just in time to attack Joe and win. Ed Murrow with the support of CBS owner Paley did it all with his little mic and big camera. Murrow loved the left and Paley wanted to make the point that print media no longer controlled public opinion. Paley wanted the political world to know that TV had public opinion in its back pocket. Prior to this time Politicians wold make TV and Radio reporters wait while they sucked up to the print media. After McCArthy fell, the print reporters had to ride in the back of the bus... TV was the new king of influence.” 22 posted on 06/26/2003 2:34:04 PM PDT by Common Tator
Which can be found at:

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/936183/posts

Finally, the always-questionable NewsMax had this take on old Uncle Walter:

“Accuracy in Media has documented Cronkite’s pronounced liberal bias. During the Cold War, Cronkite repeatedly passed on Soviet disinformation about U.S. defense policies. He pronounced the "Soviet threat" a myth and told Soviet journalists that the American people were muddled in their thinking about the Cold War.

In 1999, Cronkite came out of the closet and exposed his leftist bias. AIM reported Cronkite’s call for a world government and for the U.S. to renounce "some of its sovereignty" in pursuit of that goal. He called for a revision of the veto procedures in the United Nations Security Council to prevent the United States from blocking actions intended to move toward world government.” Found at:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/10/23307.shtml

While I was not correct, information is still being gleaned from various Soviet archives. I.F. Stone was a confirmed “fellow traveler” who purposely spread disinformation. Murrow was encouraged by Soviet sympathizers during his tenure in England to push for the United States involvement in WWII. He did that exceedingly well, though he was far more motivated by patriotism than seeing Stalin’s butt covered.

Thanks again. If you catch me goofing up again please don’t hesitate to jerk me up on it.
- NRT