Dan Ratherisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Dan Rather

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[SueAngel]

Someone please -- just put him out of our misery!

[IRhino]

I was waiting for this post...thanks!!!

[evets]

Yeah I herad this one around 0200:

"Keep in mind they are teetotally meetmortally convinced they have Ohio won."

I thought I was dreaming. That guys gone senile...

[lilylangtree]

Thanks. Have circulated.

[Between the Lines]

Thanks for posting this.

[Serb5150]

Like a bad nightclub act. Sheesh...

[MHT]

I heard some of them played this AM on F&F--I thought they were a spliced tape. I can hardly believe these are for real.

This man has truly lost it--and they think that Bush is inarticulate! If he said 1/2 these things people would think it had lost his mind!

Doesn't CBS still have rights to the Gary Moore Show's Goodnight Song that they could recycle at a time like this?

[weegee]

We should have a contest for the best FReeper "Ratherism".

I'm partial to this one from colorado tanker in reference to the media's relianced on Zogby's biased poll figures:

"But it blew up on him bigger than a Pali suicide belt."

[afnamvet]

Rather is exhibiting that debilitating disease that afflicts Cronkite.

[Wallace T.]

It sounds like Rather's script writer got a hold of an LBJ era version of "How to Talk like a Texan" from a used book store and feeds these lines to him so that he would sound folksy.

[weegee]

Maybe he could take over for Doodles Weaver's old show.

[afnamvet]

Past Ratherism (2000 election?)..."This race is tighter than lug nuts on a 55 Chevy".

[weegee]

Someone send this to Snopes. I want them to "authenticate" it (actually I just want them posted for all the world to see, I heard them myself on election night).

Tell them you got it in an email.

[presidio9]

I too stuck with Rather on election night. I took great joy and comfort as he became visibly more anxious and depressed.

[clintonh8r]

Tighter than a Texas tick on a bull's scrotum on the Fourth of July. (mine, not Dan's)

[A Real Dan Fan... NOT]

This boy is about as useful as tits on burnt bacon.

[oyez]

I rather put on a wooden bill and go out a peck sand with a chicken, that listen to that guy. Really the sad thing was that DR was reading a script.

[lawnguy]

This is the kind of crap that made Dan famous. This is like a parody of an old time LBJ type Texan.(He even does train songs on Letterman) It used to fool some of the people some of the time. Now it's just pathetic.

[JessieHelmsJr]

Maybe he wants to be a rapper!