Nutty Uncle Walt

From the Drudge Report:

Former CBSNEWS anchorman Walter Cronkite believes Bush adviser Karl Rove is possibly behind the new Bin Laden tape.

Cronkite made the startling comments late Friday during an interview on CNN.

Somewhat smiling, Cronkite said he is "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."

This may simply be Cronkite's way of asserting that the tape benefits Bush politically (in that it raises fears of additional attacks) -- despite the fact that the intent of the tape is to intimidate Americans into voting for someone else. If so, he chose an astonishingly irresponsible way to make the point.

I still don't discount the possibility that "the most trusted man in America" has gone completely around the bend and actually believes that what he said is literally true.

Then again, he may just be a sock puppet for Michael Moore.