Yet Another Dan Rather Update
Hat Tip: Rathergate.com. Rathergate wants some comments, so here are mine:
You can’t fix the problems at CBS. And frankly, I don’t care whether they get "fixed" or not. I’ve known for years that CBS had it in for Republicans. It started with Walter Cronkite spinning the Tet Offensive as an enemy victory (which it was not), continued with Dan Rather’s display of uncontrolled fury with Bush Senior ("How would you like it if I judged your entire journalistic career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?"), and culminated, not with the forged documents, but with Dan Rather’s willigness–nay, eagerness–to do the Kerry campaign’s bidding and skew his coverage of the election returns.
That kind of behavior is inexcusable. But even less excusable is the way Leslie Moonves has run CBS since he took it over. He has canceled every show that promulgated anything close to moral values. And he let Dan Rather run the news division, with Andy Hayward as his figurehead, and grind whatever lefty axe he pleased, on-air and off-.
Therefore, to talk of reform at CBS is a waste of time. Nothing less than a Light on the Damascus Road [Acts 9] will “reform” them for any appreciable period. To paraphrase our Lord and Savior, it’s a little hard to back up against the tire-puncturing combs at the gated parking lot. Yet that is what Dan Rather did, and what he continues to do. Fine. He can ramble and rattle on to his heart’s content, but I’ll never tune him in again. He needs to "get his mind right," because "what we’ve got here, is failure to communicate."
You can’t fix the problems at CBS. And frankly, I don’t care whether they get "fixed" or not. I’ve known for years that CBS had it in for Republicans. It started with Walter Cronkite spinning the Tet Offensive as an enemy victory (which it was not), continued with Dan Rather’s display of uncontrolled fury with Bush Senior ("How would you like it if I judged your entire journalistic career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?"), and culminated, not with the forged documents, but with Dan Rather’s willigness–nay, eagerness–to do the Kerry campaign’s bidding and skew his coverage of the election returns.
That kind of behavior is inexcusable. But even less excusable is the way Leslie Moonves has run CBS since he took it over. He has canceled every show that promulgated anything close to moral values. And he let Dan Rather run the news division, with Andy Hayward as his figurehead, and grind whatever lefty axe he pleased, on-air and off-.
Therefore, to talk of reform at CBS is a waste of time. Nothing less than a Light on the Damascus Road [Acts 9] will “reform” them for any appreciable period. To paraphrase our Lord and Savior, it’s a little hard to back up against the tire-puncturing combs at the gated parking lot. Yet that is what Dan Rather did, and what he continues to do. Fine. He can ramble and rattle on to his heart’s content, but I’ll never tune him in again. He needs to "get his mind right," because "what we’ve got here, is failure to communicate."
posted by Temlakos at 10:17 AM
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