Walter is ready to get down on his knees. INSTAPUNDIT
...I have the first thing I want to say this morning, and I'm torn about where to put it, but I'll go ahead and put it here. It's about Walter Cronkite on "Larry King Live" last night:
KING: Now, bin Laden, of course, could help Bush in that it reminds people of a terror issue in which he runs strong. It also could hurt Bush in that reminds people he's still alive. So this could be a double edged sword, right?
CRONKITE: Indeed. Indeed. And the thing that in bringing this threat to us, there is almost, in the fact that he dressed well, that he looked well, he was clean shaven, nearly clean shaven as those folks get. It seemed almost, to me, that he wanted to enter into negotiations, that he was really up -- he wants to move into a leadership role in international affairs instead of the role of a brigand. And he spoke calmly about this thing. The threat was there, no question about it. He's delivering a warning to us, no question about that. And certainly, I don't think there's any reason to feel that we can take him to our bosom just because this speech at all. He's perfectly capable of blowing us up.
Yes, we'll need some more calm talk from the well-groomed -- for him! -- old rogue before we clasp him in our arms, won't we? Thanks, Walter. And considering that OBL has a full beard down to his chest, am I to assume you were cracking an ethnic joke when you said "clean shaven, nearly clean shaven as those folks get"? |
