I saw him do the thing with his mouth at the end and it was very odd.
It's called fighting off tears! You guys -- all of you pissing on Rather -- just kill me. This was a beautiful moment. In seeking to diminish Rather, you just diminish yourselves.
I saw him stick his tongue into his cheek. It was a very weird thing to see. I took it as Rather saying in his own little way that he was reading the words but "wink wink".
I don't like Rather, never have. But I was very very pleased with what he reading. Words that were written a long time ago by someone at CBS for the day Reagan died. You don't think they just slapped together their presentation on Reagan? It was designed long ago. I was impressed until his tongue in cheek thing.
Dan Rather has been a slug on TV for many years. And what? Do you think he's some great friend of Reagan? Friend of the family? Such that he's going to cry on camera? Have you even been in a TV studio? Been around broadcasting professionals? I have. They don't just start bawling. Not unless they want to. And the only time they do is to make themselves look better in some way.
I was making an observation about Dan Rather. I don't have to "diminish" Dan Rather. He does that well enough on his own. He's been such an ass in so many ways for such a long time if he did indeed get honestly choked up over Reagan's death so what?