Dan Rather loses it (Free Republic Mentioned)

Canada Free Press ^ | November 5, 2004 | Arthur Weinreb

[AmericanMade1776]

Dan Rather, the CBS anchor who is well past his sell-by date, was verging on losing it in the early morning hours of November 3. Ed Bradley had carried out a mathematical calculation that showed that George W. Bush needed only to obtain 15 per cent of Ohio’s absentee and provisional ballots to win the state and the presidency. A visibly upset Rather then came out with one of his famous Danisms--just because a chicken has wings, doesn’t mean it can fly.

In a poignant comment, Bradley defended himself by saying that he wasn’t making the math up--the figures came from Republicans in Ohio. This is what the mainstream media has degenerated into--a journalist forced to admit that he’s reporting something and not making it up.

The Dan just couldn’t bring himself to consider the possibility that George W. Bush could win Ohio and a second term. And when Rather next called upon Bradley, he introduced him as “Ed Bradley who is not a mathematics professor”. Bradley then piped up that he did in fact teach math at one point in his life.

[Petronski]

Dan Rather's stranger than a Galveston whore in a marshmallow pantsuit.

[bonfire]

Did you see Brit Humes sound bites of Dan Rather last night?? It WAS funny!

[showme_the_Glory]

Bradley then piped up that he did in fact teach math at one point in his life.....

Remember that teaching is not a real job. Terrazuh.

[truth_seeker]

"Dan will never get it. We turned to CBS arond 10:00 pm Pacific, because I wanted to watch his meltdown for a minute or two. This was after Fox News had finally called Florida, and it was looking like Ohio was going for Bush. Dan was indeed melting down, and discussing how Kerry could still win. It was really rather pitiful. I laughed at him for a minute or two, then went to bed, happy."

I watched him later when it was coming clear Ohio would not work out for a Kerry victory.

He was pathetic, almost like a man alone in the room, talking to himself, musing over what remaining combination could give it to Kerry.

Kinda like, "well give Kerry Alaska and Wyoming, no, no, give Kerry New Mexico, yes, yes....."

[BibChr]

That's funnier'n a millipede with the hotfoot.

Dan

[RightWhale]

Chickens fly. They fly especially well when my neighbor is trying to catch one for his stewpot. He will end up with about as many inside the 6 foot fence as outside.

[wita]

So well put, however, dan didn't get it.

[UncleSamUSA]

Knock..knock..knock...

Do you hear that. That is America at the door about to end Dan Rather's career.

Knock.. knock.. knock..

[AmericanMade1776]

Hey Dan, the "Village" called , they said they were missing the idiot you.

[Barnstormer]

I did the same -- after Fox called Ohio for Bush, I just HAD to see Danny boy in total mental meltdown. And, he did not disappoint -- still trying to pull it out for Kerry, like he had any say in the matter!

[7thson]

Just because a news anchor can talk, doesn't mean he will make sense.

If Ed Bradley had retorted with that, I would have fell on the floor LMAO! That is a great line!

[johnny7]

My father, God rest his soul, looked a lot like RATher during the final months of his life... he had extreme Dementia.

That vapid, vacant stare, replacing what once was a razor-sharp wit, is seared... seared I tell you, in my own mind!

All kidding aside, I don't wish that terrible scourge on anybody... but if RATher has it... NO amount of stem-cell research can give you back what you lost!

[Former Proud Canadian]

Has CBS called the election yet?

[Manic_Episode]

Baghdad Dan.

[Dr.Deth]

Here is the dean of TV news babbling like an idiot.

The Howard Dean of TV news?

[talleyman]

it's Jenny lock the door and hold down the dog because we have to give him some medicine he's not going to like.

Dan Rather's contrived folksiness went over like a Satan-burger with a side of Hell-fries at a So-born-again-they-think-Heaven-is-sinful Southern Baptist Bible Revival fried-chicken-picnic-and-Gospel-turkey-shoot.

[rogue yam]

this is the cbs evening news
with dan rather reporting from
cbs news headquarters in new york

good evening

danger war killer fraud
cia mayhem crisis horrible
inflation military threat
flaming debris fatal heart attack
stress injuries prison disaster
economic collapse dangerous radiation
a tide of violence and human misery
a liar and an unremorseful killer
communist international smuggling pipeline
starving victims and how they died
chemical weapons carpet bomb deaths
tough fbi killed and injured children
police conspiracy negative attacks
discipline sex and drinking binges
dying of a heart attack dying of breast cancer
dying of a japanese nuclear bomb
mountains of credit card debt
a mountain of cocaine tons of cocaine
atomic bomb radiation experiments
unwitting test subjects dangerous radiation
marijuana abuse hooked on drugs
time for us to bug out

rocked rocked rocked by rape
rocked rocked rocked by rape
rocked rocked rocked by rape
sex drugs and rocked by rape

nazi war criminals cancer garbage
murder caution terrorists castigation
police conspiracy dramatic urban torture
drunk driving hostage siege
government shutdown collapses
desperation despair deep into debt
criminal persecuted semi-automatic handgun
exploisive gunman killed a tourist
funeral victims racists a massive lawsuit
hostage ethnic war
cancer death rate fleeing for their lives
cia narcotics operations
hungry homeless frustrated terrorists
spoiled unsanitary hard-hitting losers
brutal bizarre critical bombing
the gangs rule
criminal anti-government love triangle
deeper and deper into damage even debt
anti-drug dea worldwide ban
time for us to bug out

[chorus]

disgruntled conspirator attack killed
us warplane went down in flames crash
gunned down shooting death blood drops murderer
desperate tragedy isn't he dead?
death penalty ransom note forbidding notorious
overwhelming communist urban punishment
low ethics extortion and murder
a plane crash set an entire neighborhood on fire
international smuggling pipeline
make it faster better cheaper
health risk criminal murdering a man
tough diplomatic hell on earth
magnetic radiation fraudulent assassins
mysterious murder chemical terrorism
military targets fatal crash danger
a freak accident no known survivors
wild and wooly semi-automatic truck bomb
emergency anti-fatal shooting rampage
notorious negative police brutality
fear the hidden nazis next door
marxist rebels serious murderer
accidents problems punitive damages
like that negative heartwrenching controversy
time for us to bug out

[chorus]

bug out bug out bug out
bug bug

and that's part of our world tonight
for the cbs evening news dan rather reporting
good night and have a great weekend

[Springfield45]

Dan Rather got an on-air come-uppance from President Bush, Atomic? Please tell me the details, I'd really like to know about it. Seriously. (This oughtta be good....)

[weegee]

Hey, Dan!

Archie called, he wants his bunker back!!!

[Fred Nerks]

"...this is the cbs evening news..." etc

Nothing I could say would do justice to your brilliant take on what selling 'news' is really all about - in the US and elsewhere. You have written a compilation of every headline I have ever read in the MSM in Australia. Talking heads and 'newspapers' only exist to sell advertising. Nothing else. (You left out Paris Hilton!)