Dan Rather Throws Out A Parting Smear
Isn't it inspiring what a good sport the ex-CBS Evening News anchor is?
It wasn't his use of forged documents to slander President Bush along with a lifetime of slanting the news leftward that angered conservatives; it was his support of such causes as civil rights, said Dan Rather with a straight face.
According to RatherBiased.com, Rather attended a CBS holiday press party where he encountered liberal Vanity Fair magazine writer Michael Wolff, who writes in his magazine's current issue that he sought to learn why the CBS anchorman is so unpopular with conservatives.
Of course, if Wolff had really wanted a serious answer to that question, he'd have talked to...well, ratherbiased.com instead. Asking it of Rather is a little (figuratively speaking) like asking Hitler why he was so unpopular with the Jews.
Moving right along....
"'Civil rights,' said Rather. 'Vietnam. Watergate. These were the stories we told. We're now being blamed for them.'
In other words, "Those warmongering racist fascists are just sore that we put them out of business, and they finally got their revenge."
Boy, such graciousness gets ya right here, doesn't it?
Except, of course, that nobody, least of all the blogosphere, "got" Rather, who skated past any real accountability for the attempted "journalistic" fraud to bring down (another) sitting president. One could also think of it as the second bloodless coup attempt against George W. Bush (Al Gore's being the first). But instead of being fired, the worst that happened to Gunga-Dan is not getting to have the last word (at which this comment was a belated attempt) and having to ride off into the sunset, gold watch in hand, with a satchel full of self-pity instead of sanctimonious swagger.
It's like a child after he's been grounded for a week sitting in his room muttering to himself. "My dog did SO eat my homework. I'll show [Mom] who's the liar around here." "The Killian docs were SO genuine. I'll show those goosestepping Klansmen."
Muttering incoherently to onesself is something that men of Rather's age (73) are want to do. Pity that he won't be relegated to doing so on a deserted park bench along with the rest of the geezers.
Sounds like a good idea for a situation comedy, come to think of it. Maybe that could be Rather's next career.
I know I'd be tuning in.
It wasn't his use of forged documents to slander President Bush along with a lifetime of slanting the news leftward that angered conservatives; it was his support of such causes as civil rights, said Dan Rather with a straight face.
According to RatherBiased.com, Rather attended a CBS holiday press party where he encountered liberal Vanity Fair magazine writer Michael Wolff, who writes in his magazine's current issue that he sought to learn why the CBS anchorman is so unpopular with conservatives.
Of course, if Wolff had really wanted a serious answer to that question, he'd have talked to...well, ratherbiased.com instead. Asking it of Rather is a little (figuratively speaking) like asking Hitler why he was so unpopular with the Jews.
Moving right along....
"'Civil rights,' said Rather. 'Vietnam. Watergate. These were the stories we told. We're now being blamed for them.'
In other words, "Those warmongering racist fascists are just sore that we put them out of business, and they finally got their revenge."
Boy, such graciousness gets ya right here, doesn't it?
Except, of course, that nobody, least of all the blogosphere, "got" Rather, who skated past any real accountability for the attempted "journalistic" fraud to bring down (another) sitting president. One could also think of it as the second bloodless coup attempt against George W. Bush (Al Gore's being the first). But instead of being fired, the worst that happened to Gunga-Dan is not getting to have the last word (at which this comment was a belated attempt) and having to ride off into the sunset, gold watch in hand, with a satchel full of self-pity instead of sanctimonious swagger.
It's like a child after he's been grounded for a week sitting in his room muttering to himself. "My dog did SO eat my homework. I'll show [Mom] who's the liar around here." "The Killian docs were SO genuine. I'll show those goosestepping Klansmen."
Muttering incoherently to onesself is something that men of Rather's age (73) are want to do. Pity that he won't be relegated to doing so on a deserted park bench along with the rest of the geezers.
Sounds like a good idea for a situation comedy, come to think of it. Maybe that could be Rather's next career.
I know I'd be tuning in.
posted by JASmius at 1:10 PM
<<< Home