The Washington Post Style section went asking who would replace Walter Cronkite in the most-trusted category for Tuesday’s paper. But the poll wasn’t all serious. Filmmaker John Waters offered the name of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, but he also suggested he was porn-star material:

"I guess Anderson Cooper would be my answer, because he always has that slight bit of cynicism when it's deserved. . . . I always said there are only two reasons to have television: war and pornography. So I guess if it's war, I'd look at him. And I guess if I had to look at any newscaster in a porno film, I'd pick him." -- John Waters, filmmaker.

The Post also featured lesbian publicist Cathy Renna, a former staffer at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), who argued for the gay Episcopalian bishop:

"I would say bishop Gene Robinson. . . . I just feel like he has done what he's done with such a tremendous amount of integrity, not just the process obviously for himself of becoming the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. . . . I mean, he campaigned for Obama, but he's not afraid to disagree with Obama." -- Cathy Renna, Renna Communications, New York.

The Style staffers also solicited answers from "gay rights activist" Michael Sessa, gay poet Ethelbert Miller, and restaurant owner James Alefantis, the partner of Media Matters founder David Brock.

They did ask the opinion of Donald Wuerl, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, but he suggested no one could match Cronkite. Wouldn’t they let him suggest to trust Jesus? It’s at least as good an answer as Miley Cyrus (offered to the Post by comedian Daniel Tosh).

UPDATE: I forgot to include this gem on the gay theme:

"Tony Kushner, because he can take some truth about America and expose it in a very clear mirror." -- Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet.

Kushner, the gay Marxist author of the agitprop "Angels in America" plays, announced to the New York Times that "I think if you're a Republican, you shouldn't be allowed to act. I think that art should be used to punish people, and I think it should be used to punish Republicans." That actually might make him Cronkitesque.

Kushner also loathes God and spewed that Pope John Paul the Great was a "homicidal liar."

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.