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Posted on 03/09/2005 8:27:08 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Texas titan signing off24-year run may be ending, but he insists he's still on hunt for 'big game'
11:32 PM CST on Tuesday, March 8, 2005
NEW YORK – No, he's not nearly ready to pack it in at CBS News.
Dan Rather is adamant if not downright defiant on that particular topic. He is, however, packing up, with his long-held office under deconstruction during his final days as anchor of the storied CBS Evening News.
He's only moving across the street and just up the block to 555 W. 57th St., where he'll join the staff of 60 Minutes after taking a month or so off. The distance is short but perilous for an aging, vulnerable news warrior who risks being an army of one.
The 73-year-old Texan's record-setting 24-year reign in "The Chair" will end after tonight's Evening News. And he's going out not on top but under the still-heavy weights of "Memogate" and prolonged lousy Nielsen ratings.
Mr. Rather, known in part for his folksy "Dan-isms" and occasional oddly self-conscious moments, chooses to resolutely look ahead, leaving others to speculate on whether he's wearing blinders.
"It's a good time for me," he said. "I've had a terrific job for 24 years. I'm going to another terrific job. I have nothing to complain about. I can't wait to get to 60 Minutes. Yes, I have friends there. And there are some people who are not friends for one reason or another. They're peers. They know going in that I'll work hard. I'll be unrelenting in pursuit of big game."
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
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Right on, and he eats it too. Bye bye Dan and NOT a fond farewell.
Dans is as sad as a blind one legged turtle trying to cross I-35 at rush hour.
Lots of "good" here .....Yep!
Like you, I NEVER watch SeeBS.
However, I actually might watch tonight.
Amen, sonofatpatcher2.
rustbucket (I'm no T-Patcher but the grandson of a 36th Division captain from WWI)
You win. LOL
No, Dannyboy will be missed. I love a soft punching bag.
Heh
you mean he's still on the air?Tonight is his last night on the SeeBS Evening News.
He will be working with the 60 Minutes crew now.
Try again to take Dubya down, I suppose.
Maybe he'll finish the job he started September 8, 2004?
(Take himself TOTALLY out this time, hopefully).
Dam Blather will be missed like a bad case of STD.LOL!
Whoops! Forgot I already posted that pic here. Sorry.
Well, I'm happier'en a Clinton rolling in a pig intern during a Global Warmin' Heat Wave in'a Texas Teapot.
Say good-bye, ya sappy sack'a shittaki.
Yes sir eee Ole Danny Boy is a true Texas Titan. He will go the way of the San Antonio Titans, a second rate football team in a third rate league. Adios Senor Titan
Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Buh-Bye, Dan.
Dan Who?
He is not welcome back to Texas.... send dan blather to siberia.
This Dallas Morning Snooze's writer should be named Ed Barf. Dan should send him some knee pads embroidered with the SeeBS eye.
And then this worthless paper wonders why it has to lie about its circulation to get advertising.
hehe!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1224680/posts?page=155#155
To: MeekOneGOP; Slip18; Argh; xsmommy; Gabz; VRWCmemberBALLAD OF DAN RATHER(Think "Beverly Hillbillies" theme song)
Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Dan,
The documents were fake and he didn't give a dam*;
He put 'em on the air, an' he thought he'd done the job,
But up from the web come a howlin' mob.Blogs, that is.
Web logs.
Checkin' facts.Well, the first thing you know ol' Dan's a-runnin' fast;
Made a false report an' it bit him in the a$$;
He said 'dog-gonnit, I done thought I'd get away!'
But it turned out to be his a-reckonin' day.Busted, that is.
Red-faced.
Mud in the eye.Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Dan and all his men;
And they would like to shoot you folks for turnin' them in;
You're all invited back next week to watch the Evening News,
And see which correspondent's picked to fill Dan's empty shoes.Y'all come back, now, hear?
155 posted on 09/23/2004 4:15:51 PM CDT by TheGrimReaper
"Dan Rather was born in Wharton, Texas, and grew up in a working class neighborhood of Houston. His father worked as an oil pipeliner. Neither of his parents had been to college and his father had never finished high school, but his mother was determined to see Dan graduate and go on to college."
Sad and sorry ending to a promising start!
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Who is Dan Rather?
