|
From the NewsMax.com Staff
|
|
For the story behind the story...
|
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 11:25 a.m. EST
Cronkite: I Could Have Happily Married a Man
Walter Cronkite is doing a lot of talking these days, what with writing a syndicated column and working for several TV networks, and he recently spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle, disseminating some of his "Moses-like rhetoric" on everything from the Christian right to President Bush to Janet Jackson's anatomy.
Chronicle interviewers asked Cronkite to what he attributes his 63-year-long marriage, and he quipped, "I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes."
As laughter filled the room, he added: "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex. ... It just never came up in our particular relations."
In that same vein, he thinks the Christian right's objection to gay marriage is "about as obnoxious a thing as has ever happened."
Cronkite also waxed dramatic ...
On Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl: "I was really disappointed because I was out making popcorn. I spent a lot of time in the next couple days hoping to see a replay. And then in the replays I didn't see anything at all of interest."
On his strenuous job of reading the nightly news to America: Cronkite claims he has a daily routine of playing tennis for two hours, and sailing the rest of the day. He adds, "When I was working, I read the paper for an hour and then I got on the boat."
On his "Most Trusted Man in America" tag: "Nobody polled my wife."
On presidents: Ronald Reagan told the best dirty stories, and Jimmy Carter "knew so much about everything and was not timid about telling you about it." Herbert Hoover, Cronkite says, was an economist and "about as interesting as most economists."
On modern news TV: He calls it trivial infotainment, populated by "shouting match" talk shows.
On the Kennedy assassination: "Most of the day I didn't have keenly felt emotions," he said. "We're so busy doing our job. ... It's only afterwards that you can sit down and say, 'Golly, what was that?' Then it hits."
On editorializing for withdrawal from Vietnam: He says he only did it at the urging of CBS, and "It never occurred to me it was going to have the effect it had."
On President Bush's foreign policy: "Our arrogant stand in nearly all our diplomatic approaches to the rest of the world with this administration has been such as to deeply embarrass the United States."
On President Bush: Cronkite sneers at what he calls "the Bush administration's facade of self-righteous certainty."
On why he speaks out so much now: He told the Chronicle he wants to "vent my rage and let the chips fall where they will."Editor's note:
Get the video of Chris Ruddy vs. Mike Wallace – blows the lid off media cover-ups! Click here now
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Media Bias
Inside Cover Stories
FBI Seeks 2 Mysterious Men on Ferry
Publisher: Conservatives Do Read As Much As Liberals
Romney Shrugs Off Mormon History Film
Bob Grant to Return to Radio
Carville Seeks Perfect '08 Bumper Sticker
More Inside Cover Stories
Print Page 
Forward Page 
