His message blows with the direction of the current storm or wind!
Proud To Be Part Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Posted on 11/12/2004 9:31:04 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
No matter how obnoxious of a conservative-bashing liberal crusader Dan Rather is much of the time, when he returns to his patriotic Texas roots, he does so powerfully -- as he did Wednesday night in concluding the CBS Evening News with an emotional tribute to U.S. Marines. With a photo on screen of a grizzled Marine in Fallujah, Rather urged viewers: "Study it, absorb it, think about it. Then take a deep breath of pride. And if your eyes don't dampen, you're a better man or woman than I. Where such men come from and what will happen to our country when they cease to come, we can wonder with worry. But for now, we have them, and they are there in that brown hell known as Iraq. Whatever you may think of the war, they went for the right reason: They loved their country."
At the end of the November 10 newscast, Rather asked: "Now, if I may, with your indulgence, this is personal."
Up on screen, CBS displayed a picture, by Los Angeles Times photographer Luis Sinco, of a Marine in Fallujah with dirt of his face, blood on his nose and a cigarette hanging from his mouth.
As the photo enlarged and CBS zoomed in, Rather asserted: "The picture, did you see it? The best war photograph of recent years is in many newspapers today, front page in some. Taken by Luis Sinco of the Los Angeles Times, it is this close-up of a U.S. Marine on the front lines of Fallujah. He is tired, dirty and bloodied, dragging on that cigarette, eyes narrowed and alert, not with the thousand-yard stare of a dazed infantryman so familiar to all who have seen combat firsthand up close. No, this is a warrior with his eyes on the far horizon, scanning for danger. See it, study it, absorb it, think about it. Then take a deep breath of pride. And if your eyes don't dampen, you're a better man or woman than I. Where such men come from and what will happen to our country when they cease to come, we can wonder with worry. But for now, we have them, and they are there in that brown hell known as Iraq. Whatever you may think of the war, they went for the right reason [Rather back on screen in place of the picture]: They loved their country. May these men and women of honor, valor, integrity and loyalty know that they, their deeds and their sacrifices are not forgotten. That can be validated by every schoolchild in America being shown the picture and having it explained to them, lest they, and we, forget. For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting. Good night."
Some may see this as contrition for the blatant partisan fraud he tried to perpetrate on us. Others may see it as an attempt to be 'fair and balanced'.
I think he saw an image that cannot be denied as representing everything that America is, and with the recent drubbing of his political ideals fresh in his mind, calculated that this was a useful response to keep CBS News from finally disappearing down the toilet bowl.
screw you whore blather, don't try and redeem yourself on the backs of these brave good men.
5.56mm
A tribute from Blather means nothing except a pathetic bid to get his ratings back.
vaudine
A tribute from Blather means nothing except a pathetic bid to get his ratings back.
vaudine
That Marine was the one Dan never became.
Is it too much to hope that some on the left,(not Blather) will rethink a few things?
Where's the BARF alert?
A slut is someone who has done it one more time than you.
OMG! Michael Jackson in a helmet....LOL about as natural as his chimp Bubbles in a Buster Brown outfit! Funny!
From the mind of BOAZO,New Tag
LOLOL!
It has been long...I have been thin....
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