Quote of the Night: Ted Koppel on Nightline regarding Media

Nightline | 09/14/04 | Ted Koppel

[kingu]

Quote of the night, by Ted Koppel, at the start of tonight's Nightline broadcast...

'And we in the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen..' making reference to the Rathergate scandal.

[kingu]

I don't watch him often, but he does sometimes sum up things rather well.

[D Edmund Joaquin]

He uses a step stool to get into that hair of his.

[mfulstone]

NEXT BOMBSHELL FROM 60 MINUTES!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Loving all of the CBS bashing , ABC is joining in!

[Lancer_N3502A]

OUCH! I think they'll need more than a step stool, and that's to reach the level of maggot. Striving for used car saleman will be a life long goal.

[xm177e2]

Look at the shrubs in the background. That's clearly CAMBODIA. Bush knew Kerry was in Cambodia, and Bush didn't tell us--he let his Swift Goons lie. Bush Knew.

[Ophiucus]

Multimedia con artists..er..."journalists" already needed a ladder to to rise up to the level of scum on the bottom of a used car salesman's shoe before the forgery debacle.

Now, the effusion of the rear end of a pig is more welcome than a journalist.

[jnarcus]

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA watching rats run is fun

[Lee Shore]

Ted needs a step stool to get into his anchor chair. He's really quite small, but has a large head that makes him look bigger. You won't see him doing many stand-uppers except maybe standing on a milk crate. [rim shot]

[Anti-Bubba182]

At first he tried to whitewash his pal Rather's report, but I have seen many MSM sources start turning on Rather. Meanwhile, it looks like Rather will continue to Stonewall.

I guess he is so impressed with his own position and opinion that he thinks he can ride it out, but I don't see how a reasonable person can continue to believe in the authenticity of these memos. They have been debunked in numerous ways

More and more of his MSM associates are concluding the memos are bogus. Dan is the emperor of CBS and will fiddle while it burns.

[smoothsailing]

I sold used cars as a college student to supplement my GI Bill money.

Picked up some cash and always had a car to drive.

There is more than one way to get to where you want to be.

[SAJ]

You just have to love the neologistic verb ''to stonewall'', in this particular case especially. Remember what happened to the famed Confederate general, Thomas J. ''Stonewall'' Jackson?

He was shot by his own sentry.

How amazingly apropos, after 141 years, eh?

[Tamzee]

Great new tag, thanks :-)

[D Edmund Joaquin]

Yes, I've heard him referred to as a "pixie". I used to watch him but then realized one night he had no clue to anything outside of Washington.

[Mo1]

I guess he is so impressed with his own position and opinion that he thinks he can ride it out, but I don't see how a reasonable person can continue to believe in the authenticity of these memos. They have been debunked in numerous ways

Didn't Danny once say on O'Rielly's show with regards to Clinton that he believed that a person could lie, but still be an honest person??

[Dacus943]

'And we in the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen..'

No you won't you MSM SOB's!!!

You'll just rise to the level where you guys will be in a position to kiss the butt of a used car salesmen!!!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

LOL

[Lancer_N3502A]

No offense intended.

[rrrod]

"MSM" as a decription of a dying industry doesnt quite cut it IMHO. Old media or something simular would be more in line.

[Southack]

boom

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