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Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:03:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> > > Please leave it off this one. This one is about Dan Rather being an idiot.
> > > Since everyone seems to agree, we're done, right?
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> > Yeah I think we can all agree on that.
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> > -Mike Petrucelli
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> Okay, everyone agrees that Dan Rather is an idiot. Except me. Not that I
> have the answer: I wasn't idiotic enough to watch him in the first place.
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> Perhaps I do have the answer. :-)
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> -->Bruce<--
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> Okay, 'fess up: who was idiotic enough to declare Dan Rather an idiot but
> watch him anyway?
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> Of course, I'm watching a slow motion race for hours (America's Cup), so
> perhaps I'm not as clever as I like to think....
I missed Rather's interview--I think it was on during 'Enterprise' or 'The
West Wing', not that I really bothered to check when it was on--I lumped it,
mistakenly or not, in the 'Let's get ratings at any cost' group, and I don't
seem to appreciate the 'ratings at any cost' group.
I have now read the transcript (as linked in an earlier post) but came away
not knowing anything more than I knew before--He 'won' his 'election' with
100 percent of the votes? Did Rather ask who he ran against, or how someone
would get their name on the ballot? Nope. What type of journalist would
forego journalistic integrity in favour of ratings? Not one I wish to watch.
Yeah, I reiterate, a completely wasted opportunity to do some true journalism.
My boycott of CBS continues...
Dave K
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| (...) Okay, everyone agrees that Dan Rather is an idiot. Except me. Not that I have the answer: I wasn't idiotic enough to watch him in the first place. Perhaps I do have the answer. :-) -->Bruce<-- Okay, 'fess up: who was idiotic enough to declare (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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