A Husband for Uncle Walter?

“I do think one of the factors was we were of different sexes. 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.”

– Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, when asked why his marriage to Betsy Cronkite had lasted so long, as quoted in the March 2 San Francisco Chronicle.

Every two weeks, the Media Resource Center publishes its Notable Quotables, a favorite of mine showcasing the most recent inanities from our media. This was only one of several oddities from the latest issue.