The latest OBL tape must be doing great damage to John Kerry's presidential aspirations.
(From Drudge)
Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.:recovering from ROTFL:Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview [with Larry King] on CNN.
As far back as my memory goes (early sixties), there was Walter Cronkite: a stern yet trustworthy and fatherly sort; calmly and earnestly reporting the news on the venerated CBS.
Sometimes it sucks to grow up.
But I bet it doesn’t suck to be Karl Rove. That guy must have the largest ego imaginable.
So, liberals, leftists and Kerry Democrats: have we caught OBL or haven't we?
UPDATE: Transcript.
CRONKITE: Who's to blame for it really is the intensity of this campaign. Plus the fact that we have a preface to this in the last campaign. What year was that now?UPDATE: Tim Blair has the email exchange between
I love the Lefty dementia about Rove.
Billionaires finance their propaganda, academics rationalize it, journalists circulate it, and celebrities recite it.
But still, they lose ground.
But... but... they're smarter than we are. They can't believe they are losing the war of ideas. The only possible explanation: the machinations of an Evil Genius.
What a comforting, all-purpose fantasy. It absolves them of culpability for lying and cheating - after all, their enemy is Evil. And it absolves them of any need to prove their charges - after all he's a Genius.
As Homer says, It's funny because it's true.
Posted by: lyle | October 31, 2004 at 02:28 AM
Cronkite is senile! What a totally ridiculous thing to say! Karl Rove was probably ROFL when he heard that!
Posted by: DagneyT | October 31, 2004 at 05:24 AM
You'd think the Bin Laden tape would serve Kerry since he's spent alot of recent campaign time hammering Bush with his 'outsourcing the hunt' canard. And lo and behold, almost on cue, a fit and gesticulating Bin Laden makes an appearance, reinforcing Kerrys talking point. But it also reinforces Bushs contention that the WoT is not over with shadowy terrorist leaders still at large. It's clear Walter considers the latter interpretation more prominent. It's not clear if "that's the way it is" amongst voters, the majority of liberals or anyone outside Cronkiteland.
Posted by: torchy | October 31, 2004 at 08:15 AM
'The latest OBL tape must be doing great damage to John Kerry's presidential aspirations.'
well foxnews tracking shows bush going from +5 ,to +2 then to -1.
I guess people don't like hearing that bin laden's videos are a 'gift'.
Posted by: actus | October 31, 2004 at 11:43 AM
actus, those Fox tracking polls severely undersample Republicans and men on Friday and Saturday. They don't mean anything.
Posted by: lyle | October 31, 2004 at 11:59 AM
why would fox tarnish its reputation by saying something meaningless?
pick another tracker
http://www.nowchannel.com/tracking/
Posted by: actus | October 31, 2004 at 12:33 PM
Weekend polls are always problematic, and the Fox tracking poll has especially dubious internals.
But by all means, read it as a strong trend towards Kerry. If you've read it right, he's going to win. Get your gloat ready for Wednesday. Hope to see you back here then.
Posted by: lyle | October 31, 2004 at 12:49 PM
I don't read a kerry win. Just no bush bounce. Everything else is still a tossup. I don't even know if its proper to compare to 2000 polls showing bush +3 when gore took the popular vote by +.5. We truly are in a who knows.
Posted by: actus | October 31, 2004 at 12:56 PM
But... but... they're smarter than we are. They can't believe they are losing the war of ideas. The only possible explanation: the machinations of an Evil Genius - lyle
That's just it. The left is entirely too full of people who seem to honestly believe that 'if you were as smart as I am, you'd see it my way', (only I am, (if not smarter) and I don't) yet 'we' are supposedly 'led' by people of such overarching evil genius that they orchestrate 'movie' deals with the mastermind of 9-11 for campaign points.
Right... I get it now.
Posted by: Beshado'd | October 31, 2004 at 12:59 PM
I never trusted 'the most trusted man in America'. Cronkite was as slick as a con man's tuxedo.
Posted by: Bill | October 31, 2004 at 06:16 PM
I have resented Walter Conkrite since the Vietnam era. His lies caused many deaths then & his lies will continue to cost lives if people believe his current drivel.
BTW Enjoyed your blog.
Posted by: cube | November 01, 2004 at 10:14 AM
Hey actus, how'd that Bush-Kerry thing turn out?
Posted by: lyle | November 04, 2004 at 06:57 AM
lyle: Heh.
Posted by: baldilocks | November 04, 2004 at 09:13 AM