Posted on 12/01/2004 9:02:50 AM PST by Temple Owl
The conservatives keep racking up victories. Sen. Arlen Specter was taken to the woodshed after winning his election. He appeared to warn President Bush not to select Supreme Court nominees who oppose abortion rights. He ended up being slapped around by conservative colleagues and being forced to promise that he will do whatever President Bush wants. He had made the concessions to get appointed chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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Dan Rather, do you hear that knocking? It's Buckhead at the door with a pink slip. Courage Dan, your anchor seat is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. Your future is as thin as turnip soup.
I think you would be likelier see a hippopotamus run through your living room than see Captain Dan the News Man ever anchor another news program.
He used to be the big burrito out there in CBS, but he's lived by the crystal ball. He's eating so much broken glass, he's in critical condition and they're doing back flips in the Red States.
No, there is no truth whatsoever that they are grooming Baghdad Bob to replace him.
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Arlen and Dan have learned that the silent majority now has a voice -- a really loud one.
(Excerpt) Read more at countypressonline.com ...
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Its not just the end of Dan Rather. Its the end of Dan Rathers.
"....grooming Baghdad Bob to replace him."
Speaking of whom, where is the former Dis-informaion Minister these days?
Last I heard, he was poking around either Bahrain, Dubai, or the Emirates as a news caster or some such.
Great line. I might just swipe it from time to time.
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From longtime Los Angeles Times Media "Critic" DAVID SHAW:
RATHER's work 'Shoddy, Slipshod' not LIBERAL
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts
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Have at it. I swiped it myself.
Sounds like you have him properly pegged. All liberals deny being liberals these days. They call themselves "moderates." Good post BYW.
Progressive is also commonly being used now that the "L" word has become a big negative.
Thanks for the ping!
I seem to remember hearing they arrested him, and he's cooling his heels in an Iraqi prison, or something.
Now I kinda' wonder myself.
Don't you think they would have held him on the same grounds that they hold others who were in the Iraqi leadership?
But my memory is far from perfect.
I say his reporting has been genuine as a Times Square Rolex.
A moment of silence exuberant cheering for the death of the Legacy News Media (LNM)!
Yeeeaaaaaarrrrrggghhhhhh! (to quote some guy who's name I forget)
Wasn't he in the Iraqi most wanted deck of cards?
Will Rather of maintenance report to aisle 5 for a wet clean up?
I just checked, and didn't find him.
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