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Dan Rather Chokes-Up After Reading Essay on Reagan
CBS News | 6/6/04

Posted on 06/06/2004 12:25:13 AM PDT by My Dog Likes Me

Essay by Dan Rather, read at the very end of a CBS News special report, on the evening of June 5, 2004.

--- "President Reagan led the West in a decisive hour of a long battle for the survival of Western culture, Western ideas and ideals.

He was a son of the West. Born in the American Mid-West, he grew to full manhood and died in its far West. All of his life, he favored the West Wind.

He dressed the part, acted it, spoke it, and lived it. The Reagan presidency began on the front steps of the Capitol. His inaugural ceremony the first in history facing West, toward the Mall and its monuments.

His letter of November 5, 1994, announcing his Alzheimers, poignant, yet devoid of self-pity, tells us he was once again looking West. But, Ronald Wilson Reagan also could not resist one more look back over his shoulder.

He now makes his final ride, confident in the knowledge that, as he wrote, "For America, there will always be a bright dawn ahead."

May we share his optimism. And may his steed hold steady as he completes his journey. We will think of him always, when the West Wind blows." -----


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; courage; danrather; dramaqueen; mediawhore; phoneybaloney; ronaldreagan; saddamspaldan
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To: cyncooper
...his emotion was real.

Big whoopdie crap! Emotions are fine behind a fence and held in check, but the only thing that I see when a grown man emotes in public, is a grown man emoting. Turns my stomach. Dan Rather is a giant pile of phony.

141 posted on 06/06/2004 12:07:51 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: DoughtyOne
You wrote:

"Clinton's scandle was that he couldn't get enough ass unless he was where he should have been, in the family quarters."

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Unfortunately that was the least of Sick's scandles...Even though I thought it enough to resign from office a disgraced man. Instead the man is fawned over.....

Disgusting..........

142 posted on 06/06/2004 12:08:45 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Why isn't Je$$e Jack$on......looking into Ron Brown's death?)
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To: Bob J

A vigil?! Are you serious? The man is dead. Life goes on.


143 posted on 06/06/2004 12:09:43 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Geeze, get a grip. Did you read my whole post?

I hardly praised him.

Good grief. Easy tears does not equal good, said I. I'd think you'd agree with me than to take time to hector me about it.


144 posted on 06/06/2004 12:11:13 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Oh, I see. You're just a cantankerous mean old coot who is mad at everyone and everything.

Carry on.


145 posted on 06/06/2004 12:12:42 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: SamAdams76
That's very nice and perhaps even laudable. I have zero patience with grown people, 35 years and older, who are still clinging to the nonsensical views of life they held in their early twenties. For those younger than 35, I have some patience, not much, but some.
146 posted on 06/06/2004 12:14:56 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: DoughtyOne

LOL. Thanks. I need a little humor in my life after a weekend of a not so pleasant Texas State Convention. Well, it did have a few good moments.


147 posted on 06/06/2004 12:15:16 PM PDT by Gracey (NOT Fonda Kerry and his 9.10 Democrat Party mentality)
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To: cyncooper; Bob J

Alright, alright. Your point is well taken. Where do I pick up my candle and a copy of the lyrics to Kum Ba Yah?


148 posted on 06/06/2004 12:19:15 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Where do I pick up my candle and a copy of the lyrics to Kum Ba Yah?

You're asking the wrong person! LOL

149 posted on 06/06/2004 12:20:51 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: Osage Orange

First of all, thanks for understanding what I meant to say, even though I printed the opposite of what I meant.

Look, you and I and most people know that men are falible. They make mistakes. When I address what Clinton did, it is with the understanding that this wasn't an isolated mistake. It was a decades long pattern of character that was exhibited in this very public manner.

The infidelity wasn't just against Hillary, it was against his daughter who had every right to expect her father to respect her mother. If on the whole he had made any pretense to do that, I would hold him in much higher esteem. Instead he thought only of himself constantly, time after time after time after time.

Yes the transfers of technology to China were worse. Yes the failure to take Osama Bin Laden into custody was worse. Yes the witness tampering was worse. Yes, the obstruction of justice was worse. Yes the attempts at bribery were worse. Yes the rapes were worse. Yes the placing of spys in key positions within our government was worse. You'll get no arguement from me there.

IMO the character of Bill Clinton is most easily revealed by the most simple of subjects for people to understand. When you understand his betrayal of his family, friends, women in general and the public over decades of time, you understand that such a person would be capable of almost anything. He is a moralless ship sailing through the night with no rudder.

Should it surprise anyone that he would sell anyone and anything out? No. This has been crystal clear for decades. Only the mentally challenged (his supporters in the face of everything) have missed the obvious.

Thanks for the comments.


150 posted on 06/06/2004 12:24:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: My Dog Likes Me
Yes it was touching, however unfortunately Dan will probably have the same chocked up reaction after his good friend Saddam is executed.
151 posted on 06/06/2004 12:24:34 PM PDT by True Capitalist
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To: My Dog Likes Me
Sometimes, greatness is so undeniable, that even your enemy must acknowledge it.
152 posted on 06/06/2004 12:26:26 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Pátria, pero sin amo.)
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To: joesbucks
For some reason our culture isn't looking for good news to be presented.

I think you might be missing the point...it's not necessarily what news is being reported. It's how it's being reported. If Dan Rather reports two soldiers have died in Iraq, that's news. If he then goes on to imply that we're losing everything over there when the true facts bely his position, that's propaganda. There's a difference and it goes way beyond whether or not he's reporting on a "rebuilt school".

For example, during MonicaGate, Rather insisted on referring to the Independent Counselor as Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Ol' Dan knew the Independent Counselor statute replaced the Special Prosecutor back in the '70s but he also knew that the term "Special Prosecutor" had a more negative connotation. So that's why he used it. It implied that Starr was simply out to get Clinton...which, coincidentally [/sarcasm off], was exactly the Democratic Party line.

Was that objective reporting? No...it was bias-laden propaganda and it was done purposely.

The bottom line is it's not a "good news versus bad news" issue. It's "truthful news versus agenda-driven news" reporting and while Rather, Brokaw and Jennings claim they are objective, their nightly news programs prove that claim to be false. They're liberals. It's easy to tell. And because it's easy to tell, they can't truthfully claim to be objective because if they really were, it wouldn't be easy to tell.

It's also worth noting that while the mainstream media claims there is a "conservative" network", Fox News, in this country there are simply no "liberal" networks in America. And we're left to believe that because why? Because they said so. And everyone knows that liberals are the only people capable of objectivity, again, because they said so.

That, my friend, is pure elitism.

153 posted on 06/06/2004 12:27:53 PM PDT by blake6900
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To: MplsSteve
In 2000, I drove down to Iowa to collect political buttons during the Iowa Preceinct Caucuses.

I was in the Iowa State Capitol where CBS was doing their night news broadcasts. In the library, sitting alone, was Dan Rather.

I decided to walk up to him and introduce myself. We talked for several minutes and I told him that I was a Republican, albeit a moderate one.

I thought Dan Rather was one of the more self-effacing, congenial media celebrities I had ever met. He seemed sincerely interested in talking with me.

At the end, we brought one of his assistants over to take a picture of him and I. Though I've frequently questioned his ideology over the years, his dealings with an average guy like me improved my view of him tremendously.

If you believe Dan Rather, I pity you. He lies for the lefty DemocRAT party for a living and HATES Republicans. Go ahead and promote Rather. In the end you'll find out you have been had BIGTIME!

154 posted on 06/06/2004 12:59:56 PM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT!)
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To: Watery Tart
Courage..

Nobody knew what the hell that meant...

155 posted on 06/06/2004 1:08:51 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Meega, Nala Kweesta!!!! Support Congressman Billybob! Go to www.Armorforcongress.com!!!)
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To: beckett

Dan's network break came after Hurricane Carla, which he was sent to cover by a Houston station. JFK/Dallas came later.


156 posted on 06/06/2004 1:11:46 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: WestTexasWend
Dan's network break came after Hurricane Carla, which he was sent to cover by a Houston station. JFK/Dallas came later.

Fine. I'll go along with that. But then how did the story get around that he made his bones on the Kennedy assassination, that he was a nobody until that event? It seems to me the story came from Dan Rather himself. I remember him discussing it on a panel show with Robert McNeil, who also began his rise to prominence on November 22, 1963 on the streets of Dallas.

I don't remember Rather discussing any earlier glorious coverage of Hurricane Carla which brought him to the attention of the New York brass, nor any mention of the fact that he had already worked with the top on-air guy at the network and a former president of the United States months before Kennedy was killed.

I'm not saying Rather hasn't included an accurate career chronology in his books and in other written records. Frankly I don't know one way or another about that, since it would be a cold day in hell before I'd ever read his books. I'm just saying that the legend of Dan Rather making his name during coverage of the Kennedy assassination is too well known to be accidental, and Rather is the prime suspect for its promulgation over the years.

157 posted on 06/06/2004 1:32:54 PM PDT by beckett
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To: beckett

Well, I only know that Rather caught the network's eye with Hurricane Carla in '61 and was hired by CBS in '62, well before JFK was shot. I'm sure Dan does think he made his bones in Dallas, since he was still low in the pecking order of network correspondents. And in media circles, no news event is as sexy as any Kennedy event, so Dan's using that day in Dallas as his starting point makes sense for him. He also uses his Texas roots when it's to his advantage, and, as so many here suspect, uses emotions when they suit the occasion. It's all relative.


158 posted on 06/06/2004 2:21:40 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: teletech

The world is not as "black and white" as you portray it.

Folks can disagree with your politics and still be good folks.


159 posted on 06/06/2004 2:25:18 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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To: DoughtyOne
You wrote:

"IMO the character of Bill Clinton is most easily revealed by the most simple of subjects for people to understand. When you understand his betrayal of his family, friends, women in general and the public over decades of time, you understand that such a person would be capable of almost anything. He is a moralless ship sailing through the night with no rudder.

Should it surprise anyone that he would sell anyone and anything out? No. This has been crystal clear for decades. Only the mentally challenged (his supporters in the face of everything) have missed the obvious.

Thanks for the comments."

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I didn't mean to imply that...you weren't aware of all the "gates"....I've read your posts for many years now...

Geesh, there were so many "gates"...sometimes it seemed planned to just flood the people with so much info...nobody could follow the "money" thru all the twists and turns. Besides the info overload....most sheeple wouldn't believe...the Clinton's were/are that corrupt..to include blackmail, intimidation, pay-offs, threats, and yes, murder. Unfortunately, or fortunately ( not sure which...) ...the sheeple do understand sex. And that's what stuck.

I argued long that the "sex" and it's recklessness should have been enough to impeach & remove him...I understand, and agree to the character angle....it should have been / should be the easiest to understand...for the masses. Alas....I will never truly understand those days....

Best FRegards,

160 posted on 06/06/2004 3:02:06 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Bill Clinton - "Like a dead mackeral in the moonlight, shines so brightly, but stinks to high heaven)
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