BUCKWHEAT LAUGHS AT DAN RATHER

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[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Remember Saturday Night Live, when Eddie Murphy did the "Buckwheat Sings" routine? Now it's Dan Rather's turn.

Let's never forget Dan Rather's ugly remark.

He said to Imus on-air:

"What happened was they got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up." [referring to CBS management].

The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights leader, chastised Rather for the remark, as reported by Newsmax:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/22/190650.shtml

There is another aspect to this.

Yeah, Rather can still brag about not getting wobbly knees.

When I heard that quote of him, I thought immediately about Solomon's warning [paraphrasing] "Pride comes before a fall." Man did it ever! Buckwheat gets the last laugh!

[Semper Paratus]

Buckwheat gets the last laugh!

So does Buckhead!

[television is just wrong]

what the heck does getting the buckwheats mean??

[Puppage]

what the heck does getting the buckwheats mean??

ie The Willies

[dfwgator]

"O-tay." (Is that Buckwheat or Randy Moss?)

[SuperSonic]

[buffyt]

BUMP for Buckhead and Howlin!

[ChicagoRighty]

I thought 'getting the buckwheats' was a reference to fear. As in the the fear of dying by being shot in the rectum, as hi-lited in the movie "Things to do in Denver while your dead".

[cvq3842]

I will miss Dan's oddly "colorful" phrases.

Although it was probably just an affectation . . .

[Neever]

What amazes me is that these people at CBS, including Rather, all think that they've been singled out as scapegoats for one single incident.

That they fail to see that a pattern of liberal bias, shoddy reporting, and oppressive corporate culture has dominated the Rather era. He needs to go, not just for this, but to pay for sins that have long gone unpunished.

[television is just wrong]

never heard that term.

[Lazamataz]

BUCKWHEAT LAUGHS AT DAN RATHER!

I thought he was called "Buckhead".

[buffyt]

Well at least the station has the correct call letters....
C......... BS !!!

[KidGlock]

[Puppage]

never heard that term

Which term? The buckwheats, or the willies?

[Rebelbase]

It's a metaphor for being scared.

References Buckwheat from the Little Rascals, the parodied token black kid in the gang. Whenever he got scared the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his eyes wide as saucers, mouth wide open and hair standing on end right before he fled whatever was scaring him.

[Rebelbase]

Made me think of Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat. "Looking for pnub in all the wrong places".

[newgeezer]

The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights leader, chastised Rather for the remark

Leave it to "a civil rights leader" to make a racist remark.

[dennisw]

what the heck does getting the buckwheats mean??

Dan spouts a lot of Texas down home  country phrases and clever quips that only he has heard. He invents them or more likely someone does it for him.

[beyond the sea]

Buckwheat gets the last laugh! .......... So does Buckhead!

Darn..... you beat me to the punch(line).

LOL!