Cronkite On Rove/Osama

From CNN Transcripts. Larry King talking with Walter Cronkite about the OBL video. The transcript is way too long to read unless you really like this shit, but here is what I think is the best part after scrolling right to it using my patented center-scan-key-words speed-reading technique:

KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this?

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.

The next few hundred paragraphs are worth reading as well, as they expand on this.

Hey, Cronkite single-handedly pointed out the futility of the Vietnam War. Age has certainly not diminished his capacity for clear thinking. Get 'em, Wally!