[fatnotlazy]

Dan who?

[Talisker]

If Bush said the same thing, Rather would be the first to pounce, and the last to shut up.

[norraad]

Don't know why, but Blazing Saddles comes to mind;

"Where 'da white weman at?"

[cripplecreek]

Personally I thought Matthews attempted rescue was more telling than Rather’s stupid comment.

[wireplay]

Sorry but I grew up in rural Texas and never heard the saying. I honestly don’t believe Dan is a racist by any stretch but he would throw around the term about Republicans w/o hesitation.

[cranked]

a fail + another fail = one large fail

[Savage Beast]

How can you prevent a fool from making a fool of himself?

[Dewey Revoltnow]

[Peter Libra]

One might feel inclined to cut Dan Rather a bit of slack because of his age. On thinking back over his career and the power of his media, it is only just to review the man's mental outlook. Tragically as we all know President Kennedy was assassinated. A school principle decided to quietly close his school for the day. He deemed it better to let the kids go home and find out from their parents about the death. He then announced the school would be closed and the children could go home. The kids unknowing of the facts- naturally cheered.

Now to Dan Rather. He went on the air and said the kids at the Dallas school had cheered when they heard about the death of Kennedy and could go home.

I will not mince words. Either cheap shoddy sensationalist journalism, or a best a stupid bigoted conclusion.

[tumblindice]

“I was talking about Obama and health care and I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. It’s an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Southeast Texas, when country highways were lined with stands manned by sellers of all races.”

“Furthermore, when I suggested that the president might try entertaining us with a verse from, “Camptown Racetrack”, well, I defy anyone to deny that we have no horses in Texas. Here, I’ll start us off: `De Camptown racetrack be five mile long, doo dah, doo dah’
Now how can that be wrong, I ask you.”

[loveliberty2]

Actually, if Dan had wanted to use an even better analogy using the "watermelon" term, he could have cited Pelosi and Reid and a "good ole boy" story from the South about the farmer who sat by the road with a pickup truck loaded with watermelons. Nobody was stopping to buy, and he wasn't making any money.

His solution? "I'm gonna haf to buy me a bigger truck!"

Medicare and Medicaid are going broke, the P. O. is in the red, and everything the government tries to run is much the same.

The Pelosi/Red solution? "We need to get us a bigger truck! We'll just take over a sixth of the whole economy!!!"

[SunkenCiv]

I did find it slightly amusing and very telling, to watch Chris Matthews on his Sunday talk show, dive in after Dan Rather in an attempt to save the fallen news icon, from shooting himself in the foot... Rather, who once tried to damage former President George W. Bush with forged documents and a misleading "news" story, has found himself having to write "I am not a racist" on the Huffington Post wall of atonement.

Thanks Rhonda Robinson.