Tuesday, March 08, 2005
What's The Frequency Kenneth? Part 3: T Minus One Newscast
Dan Rather, Final Newscast
"This is the end, My only friend, the end."-Jim Morrison
March 9, 2005
Tonight, Wednesday March 9, 2005, is the last night for Dan Rather taking his walk from his dressing room to the anchor desk center. What are you thinking tonight, your last newscast? Are you thinking about the faked documents? Or that extraordinary taxi cab ride you claimed to have? Or perhaps how proud you were to sit across Saddam Hussein and talk global issues with him, and sympathize with him. Or perhaps you're mulling over those five minutes or so when you refused to go on air because the network news was delayed by a football game. Or maybe you're thinking you're sure glad you didn't get fired like others involved in the fake document scandal.
I've realized this Op/Ed piece comes down to one question; what does Dan Rather think, when he thinks? Power tripping on his part? Ego? Surely he doesn't and can't consider himself a journalist by the strict standard and definition of the word. So what is he?
Did you see the self-congratulatory piece on the Hussein coup interviews by Dan Rather, both pre-Gulf Wars (under both President G.H.W. and G. W. Bush) on Tuesday nights newscast? It was pure gloating on CBS's part to do whatever they had to do to bring this tyrant off as a presentable public leader, and Lap Dog Dan was eager to wag his tail and please.
If I may paraphrase one of Dans' "Ratherism's" - his droll, Texas wit - "that if a toad had side pockets, he'd carry a pistol." Well Dan, in the same vein: "As you settle into those sunset years, may your recollections of yourself be as grandiose as a slow fox on a rabbit hunt."
A talking head on television, purporting the liberal agenda that the CBS News Division wishes to propagate. That's it. I'm not so sure Dan thinks at all. I think he's told what to think. And now, on the rocking chair at the retirement home, who will tell Dan what to think?
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