Rather tangled web of CBS

The Washington Times ^ | 1-14-05 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

[JZelle]

The new year dawns dank and melancholy, at least for me. Shuffling off the nation's center stage are my favorite sanctimonious hinds, Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Both have been burning incense before their own graven mugs for years. Soon both will exalt themselves in solitude. Mr. Moyers was a gifted understudy of his old boss, Lyndon Johnson, and though he affected piety wherever he went, there was always a whiff of the thug about his person. How well I recall the revelations of the journalist Andrew Ferguson, demonstrating that while an independent contractor of PBS the Rev. Moyers made a fortune. Well, his old boss, made a fortune too while working for the government. Why should the Rev. Moyers not do equally well while working for an organization that at least had a parasite's attachment to the federal milch cow? After Mr. Ferguson's revelations appeared in The New Republic, Mr. Moyers harassed him — another page torn from Lyndon's playbook.

[JZelle]

Ya' gotta love that Bill Moyers!

[Spok]

Liberals believe everybody's money belongs to the government, except theirs.

[Semper Paratus]

Mr. Moyers was a gifted understudy of his old boss, Lyndon Johnson, and though he affected piety wherever he went, there was always a whiff of the thug about his person.

Great line!

[MikeHu]

Dan Rather is the solution.

Dan Rather is not betraying liberal mainstream media -- he is its ultimate fulfillment. He is the promised one. He is everything that is wrong about contemporary journalism. "It is because I say so! Damn the facts."

The best thing is to have him continue in the public eye as a constant embarrassment to all the would-be Dans in every editors' office in the nation. Yes, you really look that way to everybody else.

"Mr. Rather, the Reverend Jesse Jackson will now see you."

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[Restorer]

CBS has slipped so far in the polls it seems its news reports are only watched by liberals and ignoramuses.

A redundancy?

[MikeHu]

I would think that Rather is hard to look at if you're a liberal.

I think his appeal is to those who are watching for the first sign of his cracking and "going Nixon" -- stumbling around, pushing people out of his way.