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Professor Dan Rather at Harvard University?
WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/9/06 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 07/09/2006 4:09:23 PM PDT by wagglebee

Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, who recently left the network after heavy criticism for standing by a story based on forged documents, is being considered for a teaching position at Harvard University.

Published reports in Philadelphia and Boston indicate Rather might become a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, which is run by Alex Jones.

"I'd love to have him come here for a semester or full year on campus," Jones told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned."

Jones told the Boston Herald, "I think that Dan Rather has demonstrated over a long career that he is a superb journalist and that he has more to say and more to do. ... I think that he should take this as an opportunity rather than a loss."

Rather's CBS career spanned 44 years until he broadcast and then stood by a flaw-laden report about President Bush's military service in the National Guard.

More than a year after his controversial "Memogate" report which was based on phony documents, Rather stood by the broadcast.

"I believed in the story. The facts of the story were correct," Rather told former newsman Marvin Kalb. "One supporting pillar of the story, albeit an important one, one supporting pillar was brought into question. To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

To be sure of what he was just told, Kalb responded, "I believe you just said that you think the story is accurate."

"The story is accurate," Rather reiterated.

If Rather were to take a fellowship at Harvard, he would be paid $15,000 per semester, along with living expenses.

"He'd be the elder statesman and truth-teller," Jones told the Inquirer. "He could speak about television with a very powerful voice."

The idea of Rather teaching at Harvard is getting some negative reaction.

"After Rather's fall from grace the idea of him teaching at Harvard is both laughable and yet not totally unexpected," said Don Irvine, chairman of Accuracy in Media. "It is outrageous that they would give him a platform considering how Rather's career ended but it is the politically correct nature of academia that allows this type of action to take place."

Irvine continued, "I suggest that Rather teach a course on media ethics, since he apparently has none to help students avoid his mistakes or investigative journalism and the importance of checking facts and verifying the credibility of sources. Maybe that would humble him a bit. Probably not."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; cbs; danrather; harvard; highereducation; leftismoncampus; mediabias; memogate; rathergate
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To: rod1

He needs to have membership in the Taliban on his resume. That's a door-opener at Yale, at any rate. I know they have one at Harvard, too.

Hugging Castro is a big plus.


41 posted on 07/09/2006 5:44:32 PM PDT by sine_nomine (A rolling fast beats a rolling blackout.)
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To: wagglebee

"Dan Rather has all the credentials." So I imagine would Chelsea Clinton(spit) or, for that matter, any Clinton(spit).


42 posted on 07/09/2006 5:55:02 PM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: pointsal
Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned."

The most important of which, evidently, is his pathological lying.

Welcome to Harvard, liars.

43 posted on 07/09/2006 5:56:49 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Argus

I'm sitting here, with a cold one, thinking that if Dan thought that he could get away with that fake but true crap, I wonder how many other stories got cooked up by Dan and Mary? Inquiring minds might want to know about that one.


44 posted on 07/09/2006 5:57:02 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
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To: wagglebee

"And, students, when you don't have any evidence, but you know the story is true, just manufacture some. The higher good will be satisfied, because, when you're right, you're right. And those damned conservatives have to be stopped anyway."

An academic post at Harvard is right where I would have expected this disgraced turd to land.

45 posted on 07/09/2006 5:58:31 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Liberalism's main product is Destruction and Death.)
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To: wagglebee
The Taliban Twins!
46 posted on 07/09/2006 5:58:57 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: wagglebee

Don't you need a Ph.D to teach at a university? Minor detail I spoz.


47 posted on 07/09/2006 6:00:00 PM PDT by navyblue (at one.)
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To: wagglebee
Prof Dan Rather, Lucy Ramirez Chair of Journalism
Harvard University

48 posted on 07/09/2006 6:00:24 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: wagglebee; Liz; Howlin
...standing by a story based on forged documents, is being considered for a teaching position at Harvard University.

Harvard produces garbage? Who knew?

49 posted on 07/09/2006 6:00:51 PM PDT by Libloather (All global warming is local...)
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To: wagglebee
Published reports in Philadelphia and Boston indicate Rather might become a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, which is run by Alex Jones.

Dan's getting Al Franken's old job.

50 posted on 07/09/2006 6:01:21 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: wagglebee
"...To this day, no one has proven whether it was what it purported to be or not."

Oh yes they did Dan. Buckhead caught you dead to rights. It was proven to be a fake. That's why you are thrown out on your ass at CBS News.

51 posted on 07/09/2006 6:03:54 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: Vision Thing; Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog

That's funny...


52 posted on 07/09/2006 6:04:28 PM PDT by Libloather (All global warming is local...)
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To: wagglebee
Marvin Kalb
Lecturer in Public Policy
Senior Fellow
Shorenstein Center
Tel: (202)518-2239
Fax: (202)518-2250
email: marvin_kalb@harvard.edu

Ask Marv if Al Franken's interns are available to write a book for Dan too!!!

53 posted on 07/09/2006 6:10:33 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: wagglebee

54 posted on 07/09/2006 6:35:51 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Amnesty_From_Government.htm)
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To: wagglebee

Proving yet again the old adage, "Those who can't do, teach."


55 posted on 07/09/2006 6:45:43 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
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To: Libloather
Thanks!

Actually, Microsoft couldn't obtain a registered trademark on the word "Word", so technically, my post was wrong: I shouldn't have slapped the TM symbol onto it. But then again, the joke would've fallen flat without it.

56 posted on 07/09/2006 7:15:09 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: Tall_Texan
Proving yet again the old adage, "Those who can't do, teach."

I attended a Question and Answer session featuring Tom Clancy on the SMU campus several years ago. He said that exact phrase. Half the audience groaned, the other half (including me) laughed and applauded.

57 posted on 07/09/2006 7:19:43 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: wagglebee

Ha! That must be legit because the date says 1969, right?


58 posted on 07/09/2006 7:30:59 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (USN (Ret))
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To: wagglebee

Hmmmm......I thought Michael Moore already occupied the "Lying A$$hole Ba$tard" chair at Harvard.


59 posted on 07/09/2006 7:38:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
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To: wagglebee; Cinnamon; Radix
"Dan Rather has all the credentials, as far as I'm concerned." ----

Straight line ..............

60 posted on 07/09/2006 7:42:12 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Sean Vanity --- Exciting, Exclusive New Developments in the Duke Rape Case -- BARF)
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