Getting a front-row view of Moscow's little chickensh*ts at work fomenting riot and rebellion tends to have that effect on some people. Roger Rosenblatt, longtime talking head on PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Newshour 15 years ago, was a Harvard faculty prof in 1969 when the Communists -- oh, I'm sorry, I meant "progressives" </smoking sarc> -- instigated the student occupation of the admin building there.
The whole idea was to provoke a police riot like Chicago's the year before, which would yield good "information operation" materials </off al-Q'aedaspeak> for the Commie-symp media (remember Rather's joke about CBS, that rumors of a sale couldn't fly because the KGB would never sell?), and radicalize the chumps who'd bitten on the Communists' prolefeed and exposed themselves to police action by digging in and making a show of longterm occupation.
Rosenblatt said he was walking past the back of the building when he saw all these "students" bailing out of the back windows and running away, just as the police, batons rising and falling on the fellow-travelers, waded in the front entrance.
Rosenblatt asked one of the fleeing ratweasels why they were running away and abandoning their followers. One of them replied, "the leadership must always preserve itself" -- a statement right out of the mouth of Orwell's big pig, Napoleon, in Animal Farm.
Not sure what’s more shocking...
Dan Rather telling a self-deprecating joke.
Or, Dan Rather telling a really, really funny self-deprecating joke.