Unfortunately, more often than not, in his innate ignorance and sorry fashion sense, Rather chooses these obscure phrases to hopefully convince the listener that he is a wise and brillant man who once stood down Hurricane Carla on the Galveston Seawall and wore a lime green safari suit with matching shoulder holstered .38 cal pistol as he filed reports from his Saigon hotel bar corner sandbagged cocktail table to Uncle Walter who no doubt encouraged the halfwit to pursue this method of slanted reportage.