Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Uncle Walter

Today's the day. It's over for Dan as anchor of the CBS Evening News. He's not retiring, just stepping down from his current seat. Walter Cronkite, though out of the anchor chair for 24 years, still has an audience, albeit significantly reduced from his glory days of being at the helm of CBS News.

Since he saw fit to take some jibes at Dan, I think it's fitting to recall some of Uncle Walter's finer moments.

On March 2, 2004, James Taranto of WSJ.com, tells of America's Funny Uncle.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a speech by 87-year-old retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite:

Just before railing against the Christian right's objection to gay marriage--"That's about as obnoxious a thing as has ever happened"--Cronkite was asked at the Ritz to what he attributed the longevity of his own marriage to Betsy.

"I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes." He looked delighted as the laughter billowed around the room. "That doesn't mean I wouldn't have been happy to be married to several friends I had of the same sex," he followed. "It just never came up in our particular relations."

Old "Uncle Walter" was once known as "the most trusted man in America." Who knew he fantasized about homosexual polygamy?
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And that's the way it is...Or is that the way Uncle Walter wished it could have been?

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