Posted on 02/17/2005 11:31:30 AM PST by Cableguy
Ever since his Bush-bashing 60 Minutes report, the CBS icon has been the right wing’s favorite whipping boy (well, they weren’t exactly fans before then, either). But when he leaves the anchor’s chair on March 9, he has no intention of giving up the fight.
A LIGHT SNOW dusts the sprawling CBS News complex in Hell’s Kitchen, on New York’s West Side, as a figure in a black slouch hat and long trench coat swirls through the Fifty-seventh Street door, bids good cheer to the security guards in the lobby, then vanishes into the bowels of the newsroom: Dan Rather is in top form this morning. He has just returned, after a grueling 44-hour flight, from Southeast Asia, where he presided over CBS News’ coverage of the killer tsunami. “It was one of those flights where you get drunk two times and still arrive home sober,” he tells me as I hurry behind him up the stairs to his office. In four days he will anchor coverage of the presidential inauguration, then catch a late-night flight from Washington to Iraq, where he will anchor the CBS Evening News during the tumultuous Iraqi election while also doing a couple of segments for the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes. “My goal is to be a high-productivity, low-maintenance anchor,” he explains as we peel off coats, scarves, and hats and hand them to Allison, one of his assistants. At 73, Rather is three years older than I am; so why am I breathing hard while he appears ready to hit the floor and do fifty Marine push-ups?
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Clueless, classless, arrogant, and deceitful as always.
What fight is that. It would seem the final round is over for this has-been (Assuming he ever 'Was') and he's lost by a KO.
He got drunk twice on that flight? What a LUSH! Explains a lot, though.
"high-productivity, low-maintenance anchor"
As usual Dan got it backwards.
He has a touch of Monty Python's Black Knight about him.
Regards, Ivan
Rather is certifiably nuts
You know how Johnny Weismuller used to run around the old folks home yelling like Tarzan? I picture Dan ending up the same way. Staring at a blank TV screen and babbling into a plastic spoon.
Sort of reminds you of Michael Jackson too. He lives in his own reality.
Leftists always have to position themselves as in some sort of titanic lifetime struggle in order to give their lives meaning. I think its because they don't recognize anything bigger than themselves.
What, exactly, is a marine pushup and how is it different from a normal pushup?
Geez! Yet another wet kiss for an enemy of freedom from the Commies at Texas Monthly (which used to be funny and smart).
It is one of those underwire things, but with cammo rather than black lace.
I will not buy this record; it is scratched.
Because as a leftist bed-wetter, you have the hots for Mr. Blather.
while he appears ready to hit the floor and do fifty Marine push-ups?
I love how they get in that Blather "was a Marine." But, they fail to add that he was discharged before he even got to boot camp as unfit for military service.
Your hovercraft is full of eels, then?
Regards, Ivan
I wish Blather would curl up into a tumbleweed and blow away -- far, far away -- and never open his yap again.
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