Rather to Host His Own Farewell Tribute on CBS

Reuters ^ | Thu Feb 17, 2005 08:31 PM ET | Steve Gorman

[LRS]

Hey Danny boy: like they told you in Chicago in 1968, just get the he11 out!

[MikefromOhio]

well I have a list as long as my arm of suggestions actually :)

but I had a vote for the first week or so after I got back from Iraq and it was like 30 to 8 to keep the name as it is....

I probably will change it eventually...we will see...

[Brian Allen]

<< There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! >>

There is a better one, yah know, Meeky -- and that one has never gained office in the first place!

Blessings -- Brian

[An Old Marine]

Unquestionably Danny hates the Bushes but then so do most of the MSM. My point about Danny is that he's a pathological liar. If one were to take the time and carefully look at all of the stories that have made him a name I wonder how many could stand the light of day and truth?

He lied about being a Marine at one end of his life then lied about W at the other. Why would the middle differ?

[Swanks]

I will make a forgery of the admission pass and let myself in. After all, it could have been that I was invited.

[Cultural Jihad]

> . . . with President Nixon and then-Vice President George H. W. Bush......

So Spiro and Gerald were just figureheads ?

I dwelled on that sentence a while, too. We don't say "then-President" Nixon, since it's an honorary title kept for life. But in the case of GHWBush, he was both the VP and President, and hence what the article tried to say was that the discredited reporter had "testy exchanges with him" (read: rude, ideologically-addled barbs thrown at him) when he was the VP.

[Cultural Jihad]

I will make a forgery of the admission pass and let myself in. After all, it could have been that I was invited.

Your invitation will be real, even if the admission pass is a fake.

[Arnold Zephel]

LOL...Irony is funny. Irony can also be tragic, but obviously that doesn't apply in this case.

[MeekOneGOP]

What's really funny is I recall that when I made that pic, the Ra^ther
head fit PERFECTLY over Nixon's head. I didn't have to touch up
the edges to "clean" it up afterward.

[George Smiley]

Given his history of chronic rectocranioitis, he should have no trouble whatsoever kissing his own ass.

[expatpat]

I'm sure you were invited -- you just haven't been able to find the invitatin that you know exists.

[highflight]

BINGO!

You nailed it.........again.

[Starboard]

The broadcasts come exactly 24 years after Rather assumed the anchor chair from legendary newsman Walter Cronkite.

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Derailed his own career and never made it to the quarter century mark. 24 years of biased arrogance.

[sevry]

and include never-before-seen archival footage.

I wonder if it's going to be Gunga-Dan on 'safari' to deepest darkest Abilene? and a roadside Kinko's?

A lot of unanswered questions, there. Or if he didn't pick them up, then I wonder if they have studio footage of the review when someone laid out the memos on a table, and Ra^ther got his first look at the narrow serif font, with matching superscript, and so on. Would be fun to see if there was a twinge of disappointment on his face. "We'll run with it!" After all, gotta get BOOOSH - who is the real enemy.

It's just a WONDERFUL legacy for a 'serious journalist'. They compare Eastwood's film to Goebbels award-winning effort over a half century ago. Well, I wonder that CBS is trying win some Emmy award named after ole Joe, for 'excellence' on television or something. Then again, it does seem as if the entire LM is after THAT award.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

Check out posts #107 and #160.
Also, lots of other goodies on this thread.

Regards,
LH