Resignation of Rather could be a false win as well as a HUGE missed opportunity

September 19, 2004 | w0tm

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[aynrandfreak]

Dan Rather will be forgotten except for, perhaps, some "sympathy vote" he'll produce for John Kerry

Is that like the sympathy vote that Gerald Ford got for Nixon? I'll take my chances with Rather going down.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ah, me. Another newly-minted member here to tell us all how a victory for truth will become a hopeless defeat.

[Enterprise]

There's a whole lot of maybes in there.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

If Rather leaves CBS before his scheduled retirement next year it will be because he died. With guys like him and Bill Clinton, it's all about their legacy. As they feel the tug of their own mortality, they become desperate to leave something behind to anchor them to this life. The pharoahs tried it too, but it just doesn't work.

[DoctorMichael]

Interesting take.

Bttt

[Tijeras_Slim]

Com'on CJ... even NOSTRADAMUS was a noob once... :)

[clamper1797]

Posters at DU don't have to use ... < p > maybe he /she's used to that ...

[Maria S]

Dan Rather is not going to "tearfully resign", and the liberal media will NOT have "dodged a bullet that will not come around again for many years if ever". Dan Rather will continue, albeit somewhat contrite, until he retires after the election. The MSM has taken a bullet, and more will be coming, thanks to "buckhead" et al.

I have great faith in President Bush, and the Republican Party.

Nice try, though.

[MNJohnnie]

Ok,then what should the Republicans and Conservatives and Talk Radio and Free Republic be doing instead?

I got to admit one thing I find REALLY troublesome is how some "Conservatives" always run around screaming "OH LOOK OUT, the Sky is falling" but never offer any solutions. Some of you have an almost mythical belief in the omnipotence of the Left and spend far too much time worrying about how everything is a huge trap. Maybe we should spend more time thinking about what WE are doing to them. The CBS news report was suppose to be the Keystone to this massive DNC "Favorite Son" ad campaign to slander Bush. It blew up in their faces. The left really can be this stupid. It is NOT some massive plot to get sympathy votes for Kerry. Go look at ANY of the polls. 3/4s of the respondents say NONE of this Vietnam era crap matters to them. If the Left wants to keep pouring resources and effort down this meaningless rat hole LET them. The best way WE can keep them wasting their resources is by keeping the pressure on Rather. Keep them responding to US instead of moving on to the next lie in the slander campaign. In fact, if you are right, the SAME issue is working FOR Bush the same way it worked for Clinton. Instead of buying the lies against a President they like, the average people are looking at the DNC and CBS and saying "These people are far too extremists to be trusted, I better vote for Bush because he is far more middle of the road then them". Meanwhile while the Left is putting all this time and effort into engaging us, Bush is out there talking Jobs, Health Care, Security, Taxes etc etc etc in the average people's LOCAL media

[Eastbound]

"A bird in hand . . . . "

[sauropod]

She still suffers from that cranial-rectal inversion thing...

[AmericanChef]

Since Republicans rarely stand up for anything these days, I welcome those who start chanting that Dan's head should be removed rather (rather! Har! Har!) than remain.

This would also be quite a coup for bloggers everywhere, and we're certainly getting some well-deserved attention out of this whole ugly mess already. It will make the media sit up and take notice that their own days could well be numbered.

I'm votin' for the guillotine (sorry, that's french).

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[EggsAckley]

I just did. You beat me to it.

Trolls are sooo transparent. heheheh.