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Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:39:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:

<snipped the stuff I mostly agree with>

All that aside--the NRO is exactly right to identify the interview as a PR
gambit for Rather, as opposed to any sort of kind of serious journalism.
It's hard to fault Rather for failing to condemn Saddam to his face, but
that just tells me the interview shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Shame on Rather in any case.

Why is it hard to fault Rather? I'm a bit lost on that part. I don't think
it's hard at all! Is it hard because he's developmentally disadvantaged or
something?

I just wonder if the rot goes all the way up Viacom or what.



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  Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
 
(...) I'm sorry--I'm working up from the bottom of two Tylennol Cold capsules, so fingers well very working my aren't. Yes indeed, Rather should be ridiculed/blasted/condemned for this sweeps stunt. My poorly prefaced statement should have begin (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) and (...) Granted, the NRO makes no overtures of impartiality, but I don't recall anyone "rallying around" Rather prior to or following the idiotic interview. Bill Maher decried it last night on Larry King Live, and I know of at least several (...) (21 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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