[maggief]

Kinda says it all ...

Among the places he had sought solace, he said on a recent afternoon, was in "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's homage to Edward R. Murrow and the CBS News of old, a film that Mr. Rather said he had seen five times in theaters, most recently alone.

Courage, Dan. Courage. LOL

[Pharmboy]

Yes yes...that struck me too. It almost made me feel a bit sorry for him (I did say "almost"). I bet his eyes welled up during parts of that hagiographic swill...

[Buckhead]

That passage reminded me of Nixon talking to the portraits in the Final Days.

You'd think a guy 74 would just go fishing or something.

[sine_nomine]

Watching a fake movie by a fake actor, five times, the last time alone - that sums up the hilarious end of Dan Ted Baxter Rather.

[wmileo]

"Among the places he had sought solace, he said on a recent afternoon, was in "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's homage to Edward R. Murrow"

I remember an episode of the Twilight Zone where a Nazi criminal, hiding in France and with the law on his tail, spent time in an art gallery and wished he was in a painting of a man in a boat on a lake all alone. That character reminds me of Rather. He is probably trying to get lost inside the movie. I feel the same way about his leaving CBS as I did a few years ago when it was reported that Alger Hiss had passed on to the infernal region. They both are icons of treason except that Hiss at least had guts.