It is an apt display of the times that someone with less than average abilities became a top line broadcast “journalist”. Heck, even when I was young and was listening to this clown, I detected that unmistakable sign of “complete vacuousness”. I imagine that many others did also. However, thanks to Little Green Footballs and some very sharp computer types, we geeks finally exposed Rather for the nothing that he really is. The fact that networks still trot this clown out as a representative of “gravitas” shows how shallow their gene pool really is.
Add Cronkite to that list also.
Wish I could say the same. I had a HUGE crush on him (of course, I was a vapid, dimbulb young female - I wised up during the 1976 presidential election).
First exposed here at Free Republic by Buckhead.