For those of you familiar with the Cape Wind fight, you know that it hasn’t always been the stuff of tea parties. As a reminder that the cultural phenomenon of Cape Wind can get pretty weird, folks are now arguing over the legacy of “the most trusted man in America”. Yesterday, Walter Brooks, publisher and editor of the blossoming “online newspaper” Cape Cod Today, and ardent Cape Wind supporter, took Cliff Carroll to task over comments at the Windstop.org website about Walter Cronkite’s early role as unwitting spokesman for the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound

There was a lot of media coverage surrounding Cronkite’s statements and subsequent revisions, but the history is known mostly through anecdotes, which you’ll see in the film. As usual for Cape Wind, tempers are flared and the language is pointed. After all, if Cape Wind is about anything, it’s about the Future of Power in America.

See Windstop’s post at their homepage: windstop.org, and Walter’s reaction at Cape Cod Today: http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/2009/08/06/21st-centory-american-toies-sink-to-new?blog=69

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