{"id":1262,"date":"2001-10-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/06\/2001-10-06-walter-cronkite-criticizes-falwell-and-robertson\/"},"modified":"2001-10-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-06T12:00:00","slug":"2001-10-06-walter-cronkite-criticizes-falwell-and-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/06\/2001-10-06-walter-cronkite-criticizes-falwell-and-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Cronkite Criticizes Falwell and Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TV Guide<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>USA, October 1, 2001: TV Guide, the most widely circulated magazine in the world, published this report in its most recent edition. &#8220;Legendary CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, a paragon of fairness and restraint when he was known as &#8216;the most trusted man in America,&#8217; says he believes that remarks made by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on TV&#8217;s The 700 Club two days after the attacks &#8216;may be the most abominable thing I&#8217;ve every heard.&#8217; In remarks for which he later apologized, Falwell blamed &#8216;pagans, abortionists, feminists, homosexuals, the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way&#8217; for the devastation. &#8216;It makes you wonder,&#8217; says Cronkite, &#8216;if [Falwell and Robertson are] worshiping the same God as the people who bombed the Trade Centers and the Pentagon.&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TV Guide USA, October 1, 2001: TV Guide, the most widely circulated magazine in the world, published this report,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}