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I think Brit Hume has already done that.

"Captain Dan, the newsman".

10 posted on 09/14/2004 10:37:40 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)

To: ladtx; NewLand

"Captain Dan, the News Man."

My vote!

13 posted on 09/14/2004 10:38:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (ZOT 'em all, let MOD sort 'em out!)

Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume criticized Dan Rather for his reporting of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's certification of vote totals after the machine recount:

"On CBS, Dan Rather reported the Harris certification in a number of ways. To the predictable outrage of conservatives, he said that Harris called Florida 'as she sees it and decrees it,' and also used the phrase 'the believed certification.' None of this was lost on Brit Hume. A few nights later, in his wrap-up segment, Hume offered a spliced collection of Rather's phrasings. 'In her mind . . . sees it and decrees it.' At the end of the clip, Hume shook his head, sarcastically intoned 'Captain Dan, the newsman' and signed off, well amused.

16 posted on 09/14/2004 10:41:09 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)

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