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...

[conservative in nyc]

Drudge has picked up the Cronkite story. To think Cronkite was once one of the most trusted men in America? Sheesh!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did anyone else read the transcript? He was either drunk or Arafat's not the only one suffering from dementia.

[conservative in nyc]

Original FreeRepublic thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1262131/posts

[No Longer Free State]

I don't know what they're using for his alzheimers, but it isn't working

[dagnabbit]

Thanks Walter. Now run along back to the shuffleboard court.

[dawn53]

Well, Walter and Yasser now have something in common.

They both are suffering from dementia!

[markman46]

senile is more like it

[js1138]

Need popcorn for this one.

[Types_with_Fist]

Whoa! Out loud and everything?

[riri]

Now if Rove could just work his magic and get these a-holes out of our country.

[mlocher]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[dormee]

Dear God. They are passed desperate.

[Coyoteman]

And the neutral background in the video is because of all the palm trees at Gitmo?

[Uncle Vlad]

Yeah, right, Walter, and they flew him in on a black helicopter and shot the entire thing in the basement at Camp David. More tinfoil for your hat?

[rhinohunter]

Oh yeah... We all know that Rove and Osama are like 2 peas in a pod (/sarc)

Looks like Archie Bunker was right about that "pinko Cronkite"

[ninonitti]

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........

[Mears]

A fairly young sounding guy called WRKO in Boston today and he believes it's a Republican conspiracy also.

[hyperpoly8]

He's just trying out a new theme for the Dan and Walter Comedy Hour.

[Scenic Sounds]

Now that you mention it, that guy looked too old to be Bin Laden.

[conservativepoet]

Desperation coming from the fanatic abyss. You know this is about as fanatical as Middle Eastern propaganda.

[tenthirteen]

OMG! I fear that Cronkite has morphed into Ed Asner!!!!

[DAC22]

News Flash........CRONKITE next to comment on the Alzheimers epidemic in our country

[laconic]

No, he was actually quite lucid in his hourlong interview with Mudd on the History Channel last night. What you're missing is that this is WHAT CONKRITE BELIEVED all those years he was reading the "news" on CBS and its what he believes now. Fascinating segment where Cronkite was asked about his little onair speech demanding US withdrawal from Vietnam in the wake of the Tet Offensive. He was apparently ordered to do it by Richard Salant, CBS News director, which tells you all you need to know about that "news" organization and what kind of trash ran it.

[kempster]

"Hello Osama, Karl here. Hey, could you do me a favor...?"

[ditto h]

Walter, Walter, Walter.

[Pharmboy]

Somebody should keep this drooler away from microphones.

Every time he opens his pie hole he says something even more idiotic than his last bloviation. Sheesh.

[konaice]

Oh, yes, Rove has Osoma on a leash in the basement of the White House....

What was Cronkite thinking?
Er, drop the "what" from that last sentence.

[RS]

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

Sounds like King either took pity on the demented man, or he is losing it himself...

[Beckwith]

Cronkite has finally and irretrievably slipped over the edge.

[cookcounty]

Isn't this the same Walter Cronkite that said in the early 70's that the world would turn into Antarctica by the end of the Century and the world would run dry of oil by 1990?

He's also the guy that uncritically aired, with deep solemnity, the charges of Winter Soldier (the rape, ears, heads crap of John THE LIAR Kerry).

[R. Scott]

Drudge has picked up the Cronkite story. To think Cronkite was once one of the most trusted men in America? Sheesh!

Cronkite put as much thought and research went into his statement that Rove was behind the Bin Laden tape as he put into his reporting from Viet Nam.
Plenty of thought – what is bad for the USA – but no research.

I quit trusting Walter Cronkite as a news reporter/commentator back in late 1967. In early 1968 I realized he was the head of the NVA/VC’s Propaganda Department’s American Desk.

[McGavin999]

These people are just sick. I'm so tired of their hatefulness.

I'm beginning to think we really are on the verge of a civil war. There is just too much of a difference between them and us.

[tsmith130]

There's an iceberg in Alaska with Walter's name on it. It's time Walt.

[Lockbar]

CRONKITE: Imbecile of the highest order.

[Mo1]

Uncle Walter off his meds again huh?

[Drango]

Darn...first Arafat and now Cronkite have dementia.

[FairOpinion]

Drudge just put up a Cronkite picture.

[BlessedBeGod]

Is Cronkite really saying that Karl Rove got Osama bin Laden to make the tape?

Wow! Rove must have much more influence than I've ever given him credit for.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

"I am Keyser Soze."

[My Favorite Headache]

Cronkite is the biggest piece of socialist trash...he needs to follow Arafat.

[oceanview]

I watched this last night and posted it on another thread. he's a lunatic, he also said we might not know the election outcome "until the early spring" because of litigation.

[bvw]

Wisdom is found as the sleeper is disturbed from his sleep.

[ml1954]

I wonder what Walter's DUmmie user name is?

[Reagan Man]

They don't call him crazy Uncle Walter for nothing.

[pbear8]

Notice Walter's brains are leaking out of his head in the pic.

[Oreo Kookey]

Commie b$st#rd

[konaice]

That's true, Walter has always been a "One Worlder" who would gladly see the US destoryed for world government by the UN.

[Arkinsaw]

These people have taken tin-foil hat conspiracy-theories to a new level. It will be unbelievable if the American people actually put these people into power. Madness.