Dan Rather's attack on media just sour grapes (have fun freepers)

MSNBC ^ | 3/21/2007 | Steve Adubato/MSNBC

[tobyhill]

On March 12, 2007, Dan Rather gave a speech at the South by Southwest interactive conference in which he said the American media had “lost its guts in recent years.” Rather accused the mainstream media of being afraid to challenge authority and not providing critical reporting of the White House and the Pentagon, for fear of being seen as unpatriotic or unsupportive of America’s fighting troops in Iraq.

According to Rather, “We’ve brought it on ourselves, partly because we’ve lost the sense that the patriotic journalist will be on his or her feet asking the tough questions. My role as a member of the press is to be sometimes a check and balance on power…in many ways…what we and journalism need is a spine transplant…the nexus between powerful journalists and people in government and corporate power has become far too close…”

[Izzy Dunne]

Delusions of grandeur.

Delusions of relevance.

[rhombus]

Dan who? ;-)

[dead]

[geezerwheezer]

Gee, it's so good to hear from ol Gunga Dan again! I've missed him about as much as I would miss an infected hemorrhoid!

[bad company]

What's the font kenneth?

[Spok]

Rather has seamlessly transitioned from shameless ideologue to raving lunatic.

[Red Badger]

Delusions of adequacy?......

[tobyhill]

This is nothing but the coffee calling the kettle black. whoops, is that racist?

[geo40xyz]

Who's dan rather, oh yea... 'False document BUT true' has been DA..

[rhombus]

This is nothing but the coffee calling the kettle black. whoops, is that racist?

Probably it is racist. However, I thought it was the pot (not coffee) calling the kettle black... not that there's anything wrong with that. Besides, the coffee probably did it too.

[Rennes Templar]

"Rather accused the mainstream media of being afraid to challenge authority and not providing critical reporting of the White House and the Pentagon,"

When you're in the forest you can't see it for the trees.

[Al Gator]

More Rather Blather.

Hey Dan-o, its the font, stupid!


Fakey but accurate.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

Dan is illusioned that he's like our ex-Pres. Bill who was impeached but seemed to come out of it with only an annoying scrape. Liberals as left as these do not really see what is going on around them or within them!

[ClearCase_guy]

the patriotic journalist will be on his or her feet asking the tough questions

"Senor Castro, you are so wise, so benevolent -- Why do you think the United States insists on being such a backward place?"

[VaBthang4]

"My role as a member of the press is to be sometimes a check and balance on power"

Therein lay the foundation for his and a great many other "journalist's" psychosis.

It is not a journalist's job to do anything other than report the facts.

[tobyhill]

I stand corrected but it's true, the coffee is racist.

[bilhosty]

Dan rather is a check on the republicans and conservatives only. He was not check on the Dem's and the Lib's which does not mean he was a check just a stinking lieing scumbag piece of maggot s__t.

[Jeff Head]

We’ve brought it on ourselves, partly because we’ve lost the sense that the patriotic journalist will be on his or her feet asking the tough questions. My role as a member of the press is to be sometimes a check and balance on power…in many ways…what we and journalism need is a spine transplant…the nexus between powerful journalists and people in government and corporate power has become far too close

No, Dan, it is not. Your job is simply to unambiguously report the truth.

Your very statement reveals you for the tyrant-wanna-be that you and so many of your ilk are. You absolutely crave, with no election, with no constitutional authority, and with no respect for the Constitution in any case or the form of government and way of life it has made possible, to be in power and to become your own check and balance, read ruler, over those who are duly elected or appointed by law to do so.

You sir, are nothing more than a domestic enemy wrapped up in a communistic-socialistic reporter's guise who has no care of respect for the truth, but who, in seeking his own (and those of his ilks) illegitament empowernment, would undoe the very fabric that has made this nation what it is.

You, sir, can go straight to hell.

[Always Right]

Rather accused the mainstream media of being afraid to challenge authority and not providing critical reporting of the White House and the Pentagon, for fear of being seen as unpatriotic or unsupportive of America’s fighting troops in Iraq.

In my dreams, I wish this was the truth. But everytime I turn on the set, the news is filled with white house bashing, terrorist-propaganda, and outright bashing of American soldiers every night.