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At 92 years old, Dan ‘Kenneth’ Rather returned to the scene of the crime, or rather a CBS morning show, to promote a Netflix documentary that explains how he was able to send a laptop running a copy of Microsoft Word back to the Vietnam War era in order to prove that George W. Bush dodged the draft.
In that spirit, this story is fake but accurate. Maybe. At least to Dan Rather standards.
The disgraced talking head whose ability to read a teleprompter in a monotone echoing that of former roommate Tommy Lee Jones while occasionally wearing a trenchcoat on field assignments convinced gullible old ladies that he was a “newsman” has since become an icon to former Gawker and BuzzFeed jornos who moved on to the Washington Post.
It is understandable that a man whose command over the frequencies of time and space would impress aspiring listicle writers whose command over the medium and ChatGPT prompts such as (“name all the ways that Republicans suck in the style of Thomas Friedman”)
“In the grand theater of American politics, a disconcerting script unfolds, one that casts shadows upon the very essence of democracy. The Republican Party, once a stalwart advocate for conservative principles and democratic norms, now finds itself entangled in a perilous dance with power, sacrificing the sacred tenets of governance at the altar of partisanship.
In the hallowed halls of Capitol Hill, where compromise once reigned supreme, we witness a disturbing trend. The Republican Party, gripped by a fervor of tribalism, has forsaken the noble art of bipartisanship, instead embracing a scorched-earth strategy that threatens the very foundation of our democratic institutions.”
(40 more pages deleted due to space and sanity constraints and no Washington Post subscription.)
When Dan Rather heroically sent that laptop back to the dark ages to get the straight dope on George W. Bush (and then heroically denied he did it for three days before agreeing to resign in order to spend more time whispering sweet nothings to Connie Chung) it changed history. (Or it would have if someone hadn’t noticed that the supposed Killian memo used proportional fonts that were not available at the time.)
And as a true journalist wearing a press pass in his fedora and nothing underneath his trenchcoat (in the spirit of Rather, I am exercising Ratherist levels of commitment to the facts), Kenny showed a generation or two or three what was possible if you try to influence a presidential election with made up scandals.
It didn’t work then, but boy has it worked since.
As an elder statesman of journalism, the best way to perhaps remember Dan Rather (aside from the time-traveling laptop or that R.E.M. song about it) is with what is his most famous line. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.” Or was it, “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: democracy simply doesn’t work.”
Or maybe it was, “I, for one, welcome our new Islamic overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves!”
Like Dan Rather, who can remember these things?
Dan Rather is the Lame Stream Media of TaliBiden. When in doubt make something, when not in doubt make something up, but in any case make something up
A tragic case of excessive ambition.
Yes, back in the day, if you wanted to subvert a presidential campaign, you had to put some competent effort into it.
Now you just visit the G. Soros ATM and buy a pack of demonstrators. Add to that a gaga president, and you have a formula for social breakdown, which we are now seeing on the campi of American universities that fancy themselves “select”.
Yeah, loot and burn some major blue cities, lock everybody down to get mail in ballots and use Dominion vote counter machines and just buy some more Soros demonstrators if you run low. There’s nothing to it!
All this tranny tyranny is helping our social breakdown, too. Destructo Joe using Title 9 to let kids and teens use whichever bathrooms they want in schools and force men into women’s sports? This is going to end badly.
I was always amazed to watch people accept the nightly news as a true representation of events and affairs of the world, even though they knew at the same time they were being lied to. If you haven’t watched an MSM news broadcast for several years try tuning in again, you will find it to be so incredibly stupid and far away from reality you will marvel that it still exists. The only thing that’s real about it is the propaganda and the utter contempt they have for the intellect of their viewers. Even when I was 12 years old I knew Dan Rather was full of shit.
You were precocious! maybe even visionary.
Perhaps the only time TV had anything close to honest journalism was The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC. Who can forget it’s signature ending theme; Beethoven’s symphony No. 9? Most nights it was cut off, but one night the show didn’t run its allotted time, so Beethoven was played in its entirety, what a treat!
These kind of lies and stories are precisely why the public does not trust the Main Stream Media. They are untrustworthy and are not honest news sources anymore. They are political and try to make or break a candidate, especially if the candidate is not of their mentality or bias.
It seems that way because you aren’t stupid but every knee-jerk Dirtbagocrat voter believes the fake news media.
A lot of seniors have their main contact with the outside world via TV.
Yes and many still read newspapers. They should go for walks and smell some fresh air before they get stuck to their sofas like a human fungus.
And what is a senior nowadays? I got a notice from Social Security yesterday that says my “full retirement age,” whatever that is, is 67 but I can start to draw payments at age 62. The last I knew, a person had to be 64 to be considered a senior and draw payments?
You can bet I’ll start at 62. I’m not fool enough to think the oh so slightly progressively larger payments each year will keep up with inflation and the devaluation of the dollar. Besides, I might get run over by a bus or drop dead before age 67, you never know! We were all supposed to die of covid years ago. 😛
It’s weird to think I might be a senior at only 62, though. If that’s true, my girlfriend will be a senior in October, LOL! She’s exactly a year and nine months older than me. She’s a nurse caregiver and I’m going to tell her she’ll need a nurse caregiver for herself next year. I love to stick it to her. Personally, 64 doesn’t seem old to me at all. And if age 60 is good enough for Brad Pitt, it’s good enough for me when it happens in July
Rather was a principle player in painting the NVA/VC’s disastrous Tet Offensive, which saw the VC become effectively a non-player in the fighting thereafter and saw multiple NVA formations completely destroyed, as a victory for them.
Some one should have taken him out and shot him then.
Along with the most trusted man in America, Walter Cronkite.
Militarily, Tet was North Vietnam’s Battle of the Bulge, their last desperate attempt to win the war.. Like the Bulge, there were some initial early successes, but then if fell on its face. The left, however, who never met a Communistic dictatorship they didn’t like, became a propaganda arm of the enemy.
Dan Rather and his fall from grace epitomize what today’s journalism has evolved into…fake news, internationalism, destruction of the reputations of Republicans, and celebrating Democrats and left wing America haters.
This is the power of the globalist agenda – to put a puppet fool who never learned to think because of privilege and lived the debauched life of young privilege. GW is a goof and left his thinking to others. He is a willing tool and whore of the deep state. Following the willing puppet whore stooges of GH Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama then we get President Trump who’s light shined how awful these people are and why only with President Trump did this light get shined how rum dumb we allowed ourselves to become from invading Iraq for retaliation to 9/11/01 to the pLandemic and the theft of the 2020 and 2022 elections!
Dan Blather and Tom Broke Jaw two of the biggest leftists propagandists in the Nation just like the rest of them all who receive unearned Pulitzer Prizes for their false news
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Here is the situation in America now:
More than half of the population and the electorate have been successfully and irrevocably brainwashed by the woke leftist depraved psychopathic berserk hate-America democrat party and the MSM and the educational system.
That is why morally corrupt scum like Biden and Obama and the Clintons and Pelosi and Schumer and Schiff have been elected and remain in power.
Truth is no longer even a remote consideration by these traitorous treacherous enemies of America and US citizens.
They literally lie and fabricate whatever nonsense they believe will be effective in destroying their political opponents and harming America.
High Tech and A.I. will be, and is being used, to make it very much easier to create lies and distortions of the truth.
The political and cultural and educational and oligarchical ruling classes in America have become largely depraved psychopathic morally corrupted and berserk themselves. If that were not true America would not be in this current situation of suicidal decline and appeasing its enemies, particularly the Islamic OPEC blackmailers that include the depraved Saudi and Qatar Royal Families as well as the psychopathic Islamic Iranian Ayatollahs and Hamas butchers and virtually the entire evil hate-filled supremist Islamic cult.
The American ruling and political class is now in the process of reassessing its core moral values and alignment and commitment to Jews and Israel. and Freedom and Liberty itself.
They see the 1.3 billion Islamic swine and third world hordes as a great source of future profits and the oil and energy resources of the Islamic OPEC blackmailing criminals as far more attractive and profitable now than the mere 8 million Jews in Israel.
So, the American, and European ruling class are now in the process of establishing a rationale to abandon Israel and Jews in order to go all in with the berserk murderous Islamic OPEC blackmailing Royal Family scum.
The legacy of American Freedom and Liberty and Truth is being destroyed from within and without.
With already more than half the USA population morally corrupted and brainwashed, is there any chance at all of saving America now ?
I always thought Rather was his middle name and Biased was his last name
Those clunky, tone-deaf Rather quotes remind me of Mayor Daley’s line downplaying Chicago’s 1968-Democratic-Convention riots (paraphrase): “I see no more disruption than we had during the Civil War.”
The Dirtbagocrats are going to hold their convention in Chicago this year. Morons. I’d hate to be a cop on that detail.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the islamopithecines blow it up. They’ll definitely be rioting in the streets. And it’s all the Jihad Joe Talibien administrations fault, with a little help from its D-Bag friends in Congress.
Daniel, we were friends yesterday, we are friends today, and we will be friends tomorrow .
(Bernard Goldberg referring to Dan Rather’s kiss of death statement)