Walter Cronkite: Karl Rove set up Bin Laden tape

[Guest guest]

Excerpts from Larry King interviewing Walter Cronkite - 10/29/04

 

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/29/lkl.01.html

 

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.

 

CRONKITE: I think partly because of the nature of the administration. It has

offended a large number of people quite seriously, right down to their

souls, apparently. The war has not supported fully, certainly by all the

people. The economy has touched a lot of our people. And they feel very

strongly about it. So there is a very definite body there in opposition to

the administration, as we know. And the administration itself has a lot of

support. I think that mostly it's really locked into the Iraqi situation.