Posted on 12/01/2004 10:05:53 PM PST by STARWISE
Excerpt .. balance at link
The Education of Dan Rather
From the golden age of network TV to the end of its hegemony.
Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
Life is complicated, people are complicated, and most of us are a jumble of virtues, flaws and contradictions. I like to try to understand the past, try to put it together in a way that makes sense to me. This can involve judging not only your own actions and decisions but those of others, which can be hard. I have a friend who once said in the middle of a conversation, "Don't understand me too quickly." Don't categorize me; don't decide you broke the code. Sit back and watch; it's more interesting than you may know.
Which gets me to Dan Rather, who was once my boss, and who of course has announced his retirement from the anchor chair at CBS News. Everyone I know is asking me what I think of it. I think a lot of things.
I'm going to use the past tense in speaking of him because I'm speaking of his career, and speaking of when I knew him in the past.
My first thought: It is a hard world. We all know this in the abstract, but it can take you aback in the particular. In public life the entire body of your work--an entire career of almost 50 years--can now essentially be summed up and dismissed by the last headline on your career, which in this case is "Rather Retires Under Cloud After Forged Documents Story." If Dan had retired of his own volition a year ago, that would not be the headline. "Long Career Reflected Stunning Rise of U.S. Media" would be more like it.
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That's just exactly what the disease of arrogant malignant narcissism is: the inability to accept ill intent on one's own part. Hmmm .. wonder what Mary Mapes is plotting these days.
and so elegantly put . .. she's SO gifted.
Come again?
And, when all is said and done, herself.
Not that she couldn't write her own ticket at Pacifica...
Or, as we like to say it, "Buckhead nails and exposes arrogant self-important Talking Head who thought his every utterance is The Word Of God"
Rather always described himself politically as a "common sense moderate".
And Lenin was a "middle of the roader"...
If my power steering were ever to go out, I would only hope that Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings were doing lattes on a sidewalk in front of my 3/4 ton Silverado, rather than some dude trying to eke out a living on something less than $7Mill a year.
America deserves better than this. Much better. We're f***ing paying for it.
And every tin-pot dictator or mullah had better get it right this time. 'Cause there's a lot riding on it. Our once cheerleading newscasters for your causes are now vanishing. What say ye? Tough sh*t, it's a new world now and we've got your number. We're coming for your asses and, quite frankly, don't care how it'll be covered on the 6 o'clock news.
Perforce. Well stated, mate.
Could've been my motto at one time in my life.
Excellent, GP.
Only wish today's 'leaders' could come up with 1/4 the substance in half the space they are given. Their daftness leads me to believe we are truly in some sort of trouble. And I'm an optimist.
Wasn't just a rhetorical question, was it? but a curse worthy of Hawthorne.
BTTT
Uh, make that post #29.
excellent...the arrogance of the left is shown quite well
Truly so .. and this whole debacle reinforces ever more my confidence in karma and God's clever justice...revenge is *His* .. a good lesson for us all. Nixon, Bush Sr., Bush and who knows who else .. all vindicated in one selfish act.
"The Education of Dan Rather"- Peggy Noonan captures Rather's rise, arrogance and dastardly fall
Opinion ,Gee how long did it take.
Rather's downfall is a lesson to us all ... Don't go wanting things to be true so much that you think they are true.
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