Mitt: I don't agree with all the racists who support me but I need to get 50.1%

[JDPriestly]

8. Actually, back in 2004, didn''t Walter Cronkite suggest that

Republicans released a tape that could cause Americans to believe Bin Laden and Al Qaeda would want Kerry to be elected?

Cronkite's words: 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.

Here is a bit of the context of the interview.

KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this?

CRONKITE: Well, I make it out to be initially the reaction that it's a threat to us, that unless we make peace with him, in a sense, we can expect further attacks. He did not say that precisely, but it sounds like that when he says...

KING: The warning.

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.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/29/lkl.01.html