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Dan Rather loses it (Free Republic Mentioned)
Canada Free Press ^ | November 5, 2004 | Arthur Weinreb

Posted on 11/05/2004 6:50:38 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

Dan Rather, the CBS anchor who is well past his sell-by date, was verging on losing it in the early morning hours of November 3. Ed Bradley had carried out a mathematical calculation that showed that George W. Bush needed only to obtain 15 per cent of Ohio’s absentee and provisional ballots to win the state and the presidency. A visibly upset Rather then came out with one of his famous Danisms--just because a chicken has wings, doesn’t mean it can fly.

In a poignant comment, Bradley defended himself by saying that he wasn’t making the math up--the figures came from Republicans in Ohio. This is what the mainstream media has degenerated into--a journalist forced to admit that he’s reporting something and not making it up.

The Dan just couldn’t bring himself to consider the possibility that George W. Bush could win Ohio and a second term. And when Rather next called upon Bradley, he introduced him as “Ed Bradley who is not a mathematics professor”. Bradley then piped up that he did in fact teach math at one point in his life.

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To: rang1995

if CBS really wanted to SHAKE THINGS UP - and gain
some viewers, then after DAN RATHER retired they
would get some young conservative to Anchor.
( but not the bowtie guy )


101 posted on 11/05/2004 7:56:22 AM PST by the_gospel_of_thomas (Know your Enemy and Know yourself)
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To: evets

Rather really looks like an old MONKEY.


102 posted on 11/05/2004 7:56:47 AM PST by Radioactive
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To: AmericanMade1776

He should've told Dan he got the figures in a typed memo.....Booyah.


103 posted on 11/05/2004 7:57:06 AM PST by Frances_Marion
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To: alrea
people switched over to CBS during the election to watch Rather for giggles

That's EXACTLY why I was watching! It was GREAT!! The dude was TOTALLY CLUELESS and wouldn't give it up no matter what Bradley was saying!

I LOVE the smell of a GOOD MELTDOWN in the morning... It smelled like VICTORY... and it WAS!!

104 posted on 11/05/2004 7:57:48 AM PST by RogerWilko
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To: LowOiL

Thanks. Makes for great reading!


105 posted on 11/05/2004 7:57:56 AM PST by CAluvdubya (From the RED part of California)
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To: SlowBoat407
When anchormen start arguing about math, it's Jenny lock the door and hold down the dog because we have to give him some medicine he's not going to like.

the medicine being truth....

106 posted on 11/05/2004 7:58:06 AM PST by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: xkaydet65

Sorry, "I feel your pain"

Bwahahahahah

...did the same thing when I first read that one.


107 posted on 11/05/2004 7:59:47 AM PST by add925 ("One World Government" - Just Put on a 4 Year Hold - Go GWB!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Although that might be fun to see...Dan Rather being fired out of a cannon

this is not going to happen because there is not enough gun powder left. we depleted the supplies by firing michael moore out of a cannon

108 posted on 11/05/2004 7:59:59 AM PST by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: mondonico

Oh, No. Save his ilk! They make good steaks.


109 posted on 11/05/2004 8:01:35 AM PST by Safetgiver (Mud slung is ground lost.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
And when Rather next called upon Bradley, he introduced him as “Ed Bradley who is not a mathematics professor”.

A high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.

110 posted on 11/05/2004 8:02:23 AM PST by Sloth ("Rather is TV's real-life Ted Baxter, without Baxter's quiet dignity." -- Ann Coulter)
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To: AmericanMade1776
"A visibly upset Rather then came out with one of his famous Danisms--just because a chicken has wings, doesn’t mean it can fly."

Ol' Dan's rathered that sayin' too. I've heard that saying for 'bout as long as dirt was created - although it was wrong. I saw chickens fly into a 20ft high Mimosa to roost - and they used their wings to do it....

111 posted on 11/05/2004 8:02:24 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: Radioactive

"Rather really looks like an old MONKEY."

Hey wait a minute...the PC term is OLD GIBBON. Don't you read the UK rags?

Bwahahahahaha


112 posted on 11/05/2004 8:03:34 AM PST by add925 ("One World Government" - Just Put on a 4 Year Hold - Go GWB!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
How many of you saw Letterman's clips of Rather's cornball "sayings" he blathered during his coverage of the returns? It was hilarious watching him try to appear as just another "good ole boy" who just fell off the turnip truck.

I don't know why he wanted to create that image, unless maybe he thought his desperate spinning of the returns would have more credibility if he appeared to be like he and his liberal friends think all of us right-wing low-brow religious nuts are like.

113 posted on 11/05/2004 8:04:04 AM PST by epow
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To: .38sw
We turned to CBS around 10:00 pm Pacific

I fell asleep around 8 eastern (rough day) and woke up at 4AM to see who had won. I didn't even turn the volume up. I could tell by Dan's sad, haggard demeanor that Bush had won. (Priceless)

114 posted on 11/05/2004 8:04:26 AM PST by Dutchgirl (Be still and know that I am God.-Psalm 46:10)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yes, I just heard something on FoxNews that something is about to be reported on that investigation.


115 posted on 11/05/2004 8:05:20 AM PST by Ruth C (learn to analyze rationally and extrapolate consequences ... you might become a conservative)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Do they have the equivalent of our conservative talk radio to balance what they get in print?


116 posted on 11/05/2004 8:08:58 AM PST by Ruth C (learn to analyze rationally and extrapolate consequences ... you might become a conservative)
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To: LowOiL

You are welcome....It is fun to laugh again, after holding our breath for months before the Presidential election.


117 posted on 11/05/2004 8:11:15 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( ((the VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN...4 more years !)))
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To: evets

"It takes a village idiot"


118 posted on 11/05/2004 8:15:19 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: azhenfud
When I was a kid my uncle raised white leghorn broilers on his farm. They were what are now called "free range" chickens, although back then they were just ordinary barnyard chickens. Every evening a few of the more adventurous ones would fly up to roost in the tops of the tall pines behind the chicken house. If they couldn't fly they sure gave a good impression of flying.

I think ole farmer Dan needed to refine his "aw shucks" hayseed act a bit before going public with it on election night. He still came across as an elitist left-wing snob talking down to the unwashed masses just as he always has.

119 posted on 11/05/2004 8:19:59 AM PST by epow
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To: evets; MeekOneGOP

Dan Rather is having a tizzy - ping.


120 posted on 11/05/2004 8:22:13 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's 10 PM on November 2nd, 2004 - DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR VOTES ARE?)
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