Pic of Rented Mule
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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Considering that CBS learned NOTHING from their various efforts to promote false documents and were even intentionally holding the ammo dump story for Sunday before election to limit examination. (Ironically some of the "material" may turn out to be toilet cleaners)
Rather is living in a little bubble out of touch with ANY reality other than his own meglomania.
We also have a lot of Good friends in England too, who are still having to fight their battles with slanted journalism that has it's own agenda. I wish both England and Canada much luck in dealing with their destructive media.
Theater of the absurd.
Now this would be classic. Does anyone have an old elementary school math book that can be sent to Dan compliments of FreeRepublic? Or, can someone deliver one to the studio and get pictures. It would be a nice FReep.
Dan and the out-of-the-mainstream media couldn't bring themselves to call the election for Dubya. I think they got the Buckwheats.
Pic of Rented Mule
Pray for W and Our Troops
Can anyone find that post by Buckhead? I have tried, but alas, I am computer challenged.
I am ashamed to say that Dan Rather graduated from a university here in Huntsville, Texas.
Sam Houston State University ( SHSU )
Of course then it was Sam Houston Institute of Technology ( SH!T ).
The board at Viacom should realize that what they have in Dan Rather and his show is priceless comedy. No joke; people switched over to CBS during the election to watch Rather for giggles.
Watching Rather spin and root for Kerry was FUNNY!
CBS, if you're here, call a meeting to dump "Rather biased" for someone that isn't so emotional about deceptive socialist causes.
Viacom, if your bone headed board members ever need to get news and you're checking out Freerepublic, answer the question: why is CBS so blatantly hating someone like Bush? He's spending like Clinton. Clinton went to church. Clinton started a war. What's the deal? And MSNBC is obviously getting the message(Scarborough).
Hey Rather, Comedy Central might be an option. Maybe Castro has a network.
That is some folksy saying there, add925!
"We have to go by our own rules....our own traditions....we would rather be last than be wrong" Dan Rather just uttered these words. Without irony....and while stuttering severely....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1267739/posts
Dan Rather just encouraged his co-hosts for election coverage: "Don't Despair, Don't Despair, we can endure whatever is ahead of us. We are Americans and can handle it." "I'm on this like white on rice." "This is closer than Lassie and Timmy." A few of Rather's choice of phrases
Dan Rather: - "Kerry creeping up on Bush - it's not over"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=dan%20rather
Dang! Cool!
And just because danny rather is called a journalist does not mean he IS one.
SNL needs to create a Rather charicter for it's news desk on Weekend Update. A charicter with an endless supply of Ratherisms.
Rather will be gone by Thanksgiving IMHO.
7:41 p.m. - "This is more complicated than the wiring diagram for some hydroelectric dam dynamo."
7:48 p.m. - "You know, we may need Billy Crystal to analyze this before it's over."
7:51 p.m. - "One's reminded of that old saying, 'Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.'"
8:01 p.m. - "Play a verse of Johnny B. Goode in Illinois for John Kerry."
8:05 p.m. - "George Bush is sweeping through the South like a big wheel through a Delta cotton field."
8:07 p.m. - "This presidential race is hotter than the devil's anvil."
8:36 p.m. - "What Kerry needs is the equivalent of Tom Brady coming off the bench and bringing him from behind in the race."
8:39 p.m. - "The presidential race (is) swinging like Count Basie."
11:44 p.m. - "No question now that Kerry's rapidly reaching the point where he's got his back to the wall, his shirt-tails on fire and the bill collector's at the door."
11:52 p.m. - "John Kerry needs something on the order of a 55 or 60-yard field goal to win this."
12:10 a.m. - "John Kerry's in the position of, if you want to use the metaphor, he's got to draw to an inside straight. But hey, sometimes you get the right card and you hit that straight."
12:11 a.m. - "Vice President Dick Cheney would not have flown all the way out there (Hawaii) overnight and put that lei around his neck and sort of hula-danced, if you will, unless he thought there was a chance of carrying that out there."
12:14 a.m. - (To Joe Lockhart) "I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."
12:15 a.m. - (Also to Joe Lockhart) "What about Michigan? It's been out there for a long time. Is that making your fingernails sweat?"
12:37 a.m. - "This presidential race has been crackling like a hickory fire for at least the last hour and a half."
12:37 a.m. - "No one is saying that George Bush is not going to win the election, and if you had to bet the double-wide, you'd have to bet that he'd win."
12:37 a.m. - "We keep talking about Ohio if you've been tuning in and out or you put the baby to bed or you went to pop the cap on an adult, or otherwise, beverage..."
12:42 a.m. - "John Kerry has a... his lead is as thin as turnip soup."
12:45 a.m. - "If a frog had sidepockets, he'd carry a handgun."
12:50 a.m. - "You know that old song, 'it's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely' for President Bush in most areas of the country."
1:03 a.m. - "Do you hear that knocking? President Bush's re-election is at the door. Knock, knock, knock."
1:06 a.m. - "Is it a case of, like a swan, every feather in place above the water, but now below, they're paddling like crazy and worried about Ohio?"
4:51 a.m. - "One's reminded of that old saying, 'Feed a dog a potato, find your grandma's wedding ring.'"
5:01 a.m. - "I mean I'm no, I can't -- I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's, he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas -- I mean --"
5:48 a.m. - "The little creatures...they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny! A fly marrying a bumble bee. I TOLD YOU I'D SHOOT, BUT YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!! WHYYYY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!!."
Ouch.
Dan
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Mr. Carlson
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