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WHO'S NOT HOT.... 1. DAN RATHER Nothing in Dan Rather's career at CBS became him like the leaving it. In late June, the discredited one-time golden boy of the electronic media finally threw in the towel and made his long-expected departure from CBS, with an ill-tempered whine that network executives "had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there." The wonder is that they let him do any work at all, much less for over four decades including 24 dismal years as anchor of CBS Evening News. During that period, he dragged the newscast...

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(I am a staunch conservative converted to the right by Rush Limbaugh. I remember the exact issue of my conversion - Limbaugh pointed out that so called cuts in federal spending were actually cuts in the growth of spending. Clinton's duplicity in using the words "spending cuts" insulted my sense of what defines honesty as did Clinton in general. But over the years I have become critical of talk show hosts. )In my opinion the best hosts are as follows; Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Denver's Mike Rosen and Laura Ingraham. Hosts that suffer by comparison include Sean Hannity,...

           Townhall.com News Wire Howard Dean Again Ratchets up Anti-Bush Rhetoric(CNSNews.com) - Despite being scolded in June by members of his own party for inflammatory remarks targeting Republicans, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean Friday showed no willingness to back off. At one point, he characterized the Republican version of campaign finance reform as "screwing working people and making sure that the fat cats are giving more money." Back in June, Dean accused Republicans of operating with a "dark, difficult and dishonest vision" of America. Dean labeled President Bush the "most ineffective" president in his lifetime. And in...