KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this (the Bin Laden tape)?
CRONKITE: Well, I make it out to be initially the reaction that it's a threat to us, that unless we make peace with him, in a sense, we can expect further attacks. He did not say that precisely, but it sounds like that when he says...
KING: The warning.
CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little 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. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.
Just damn.
If this isn't enough, after hearing "the most trusted man in America" make such an outrageous statement, Larry King didn't even blink. He just went right on to the next question.
It's getting harder and harder not to conclude that a significant percentage of our population is insane.
Update: Ann Althouse thinks Cronkite was joking. It doesn't sound like she saw the segment. I didn't either. I hope she's right.
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