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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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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