LPS5 > Cronkite's line about Rove seems to have been more of a joke than anything else.
>>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. <<
I see nothing amusing. As I read it, Cronkite states unambiguously the reason for the strategy -- "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"
Of course, it is clear from this that Cronkite accepts that bin Laden is alive which, in my opinion, on the basis of this tape alone, he does not have sufficient evidence to do. But he certainly supplies motive for the Republicans to have "manufactured" a tape which purports to come from bin Laden. |
