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Dan Rather: Trump's Behavior 'Is Not Normal'
Newsmax ^ | 12/5/17 | Dennis Van Tine/AP

Posted on 12/05/2017 8:20:49 AM PST by x1stcav

President Donald Trump’s behavior is out of the ordinary for a president, according to veteran news reporter Dan Rather Monday night on the TBS talk show "Conan."

"A lot of young people, well, people of all ages don’t know, from one day to the next, what he’s going to do, what he’s going to say," host Conan O’Brien said.

"It is important for us to remember this is not normal," Rather said.

He noted that some presidents have not liked the press, but no president has behaved as Trump has toward the press. "We’ve never had one that steadily, out of his own mouth, waged such an unrelenting campaign against the press," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stmodernpresident; conanobrien; danrather; dantheliarman; hipsterpresident; partisanmediashills; rathergate; thenewnormal
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To: x1stcav

I thought Rather was dead?

guess not.


21 posted on 12/05/2017 8:26:40 AM PST by PGR88
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To: x1stcav

Dan defines “normal” as the George W Bush approach — the Media relentless beats up on and demeans the sitting Republican president and the President apologizes and/or says nothing. That’s “normal”.


22 posted on 12/05/2017 8:27:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: x1stcav

“Courage!”


23 posted on 12/05/2017 8:27:34 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: LIConFem
This lying $hithead has no business telling anyone “they are not normal”.....pot calling the kettle black. Might know it would be coburt giving him a platform.
24 posted on 12/05/2017 8:27:43 AM PST by mastertex
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To: x1stcav

Pissing in your bed on purpose isn’t normal either, Dan.


25 posted on 12/05/2017 8:28:06 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: x1stcav
OODA LOOP...

I hate undefined acronyms...

26 posted on 12/05/2017 8:28:57 AM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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To: x1stcav

Agree. Trump actually uses his brain, thinks like those of us who have actually worked for a living, and best of all, he has not MADE UP NEWS that was so poorly thought out that a web blogger showed how utter Craptastic Rather was.

Nice try, no brain.Good job that you were ONLY a newsreader.
Oh, a fired one.


27 posted on 12/05/2017 8:29:51 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: x1stcav

It either takes a lot of gall or Alzheimers to go out in public and say things as stupid as Rather does.


28 posted on 12/05/2017 8:30:00 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: x1stcav

“Normal” is code for “one of us.”


29 posted on 12/05/2017 8:30:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dammit, you beat me! As soon as I saw the header that’s exactly what I thought......


30 posted on 12/05/2017 8:30:48 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.


31 posted on 12/05/2017 8:31:35 AM PST by MGG
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To: x1stcav

“It is important for us to remember this is not normal,”


Dan, Dan, Dan—we Trump voters were and are sick and tired of “normal”. That was the whole point of his campaign. Do we have to explain everything?


32 posted on 12/05/2017 8:31:51 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: x1stcav

I imagine that’s why he was elected, Danny Boy.

Courage.


33 posted on 12/05/2017 8:32:36 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: x1stcav

Indeed, it’s not, and I, for one, am praising God!!!


34 posted on 12/05/2017 8:32:39 AM PST by rejoicing (Build the wall!)
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To: x1stcav

Thanks Dan, for that insight. It is normal however to falsify a news story? It is normal to create fake memo’s? Remember that this low IQ idiot thought normal was to make a fake typed memo with typewriter font on a computer. I bet he has video of Robert E Lee somewhere. Grainy black and white of course so it looks old.


35 posted on 12/05/2017 8:33:27 AM PST by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: NonValueAdded

Never seen this before. Awesome thinking there.


36 posted on 12/05/2017 8:33:27 AM PST by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: x1stcav

Blah blah blah.


37 posted on 12/05/2017 8:33:41 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: x1stcav

Their version of normal sucks. I’m glad it’s not their normal. I’m sick of their normal.


38 posted on 12/05/2017 8:34:14 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: x1stcav

I recall reading a story somewhere that back in the early 1960s (during the early part of Dan’s TV career) that his makeup kit had been lost by the airline he was travelling on for work related purposes. He did not report it lost because he was afraid he would be laughed at by airline personnel if he were to try to tell them that he had lost his makeup kit.


39 posted on 12/05/2017 8:34:16 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: dfwgator
“Courage!”

Not to mention the time Dapper Dan the News Man walked off the set because CBS decided to shorten the CBS Evening News to broadcast the end of a tennis match on Friday, 11 September 1987.

Dapper Dan's little snit resulted in six minutes of dead air.

40 posted on 12/05/2017 8:34:52 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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