(Yes, this is the sorriest post I have ever written. Shame on me.)
Possibly it’s because holidays are coming, but I seem to be running out of either steam or gas right now, and I hope it’s temporary. (Haven’t done today’s running yet, and looking out the window at cold wetness does not inspire…)
Considering the importance of RatherGate, though, I thought a largely ceremonial observation would be in order.
Lately, I have taken to watching Rather out of morbid curiosity, and last night I did not know he was to announce his resignation until the moment of, er, truth arrived. This is probably my bleeding-heart liberalism showing, but I have to say that I detected in that rather stiff man’s voice a distinct breaking, a cracking. Barely detectable as it was, I really think he was as close to crying as it’s possible for so public a man to get.
I hesitate to pen a thought such as this, but with the tears of the dead streaming outside, I feel I must confess: I felt sorry for Dan Rather! (Ouch! No, really.)
However, unlike the denizens of this sorry site, I am sorry that I am sorry!
UPDATE: Trying to atone with rather poor Photoshopping:
Sorry again, folks.
Very sorry to be rather sorry!
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7 responses to “Very sorry to be rather sorry!”
Dan Rather has been reduced to just another talking head by Rathergate. A sad ending to a fairly good career.
The thing about Rathergate that seems to have been missed by every single person in this country is the impact that Rathergate is now having on the MSM’s coverage (actually lack there of) of the voter fraud and the theft of our election by the republicans.
Think this is an extreme point of view?
Well just take a look at Ukraine now. A totally opposite point of view in the coverage of the voter problems they have there. Where is our coverage of this same problem we have here?
Can anyone answer with any authority why our MSM is not covering this story in America? Just the lack of any national coverage is in and of itself a very suspicious occurance.
If you’re refering to Greg Palast’s and others’ allegations, I’ve had fun covering them in this blog. I think they’re groundless, though. The central argument seems to be that the voters who were too incompetent to vote properly (and spoiled their ballots) meant to vote for Kerry.
If your assertion is that there’s something new, where is it?
Let’s not go through another four years of counting chads just because your man didn’t win, please. The election is over. Bush won. Kerry conceded. It’s over. Done. Finis. And if it had been the other way around, if Kerry had won, I’d be saying the same thing to any Republicans. Criticize Bush all you want, and I certainly will be doing so during the next four years, he is still the President.
Anyway, I, too, feel for Dan Rather. I keep remembering that his voice broke on another occasion: September 11, 2001. I remember how he sounded when he reported that the World Trade Center was gone and thousands of people were murdered. I have never forgotten that. He may hate Bush, even enough to do what he did, but he is not on the side of our enemies.
If your assertion is that there’s something new, where is it?
I know you are but what am I? It’s like 1971 all over again!!!! Sean Hannity!!!!? Porter Goss? I take it, I can’t tell ONE neoconservative goon for the Mormon Church from the other?
**This is probably my bleeding-heart liberalism showing, but I have to say that I detected in that rather stiff man’s voice a distinct breaking, a cracking. Barely detectable as it was, I really think he was as close to crying as it’s possible for so public a man to get.**
Well, I guess that means you’re not a regular viewer of the David Letterman Show. Letterman’s very first guest post 9/11 (which aired a week after the disaster on the following Tuesday the 19th) was yours truly, the “What’s-the-Frequency-Kenneth-Man” himself.
A very good first post-9/11 guest choice on late night, considering that America was not at all in a comedic mood, really needing someplace to go to make some sense out of it all, but wanting something a little less overwrought than what was being incessantly broadcast during the day. Danny, entertaining in his odd-duck, psycho-bizarre kind of way, with his (ahem) “anchor-inspired stature” and “authoritative” demeanor as America’s least trusted anchor/newsreader, was the best thing CBS had to offer under the circumstances.
Letterman opened up with a sobering, emotionally wracked monologue, (stupid pet tricks, notwithstanding) and spoke to America in a profoundly heartfelt, soul-searching speech, his voice cracking at times about the incredible surreality of it all, and getting unananimous praise and credit for setting the standard for months to come on how the TV broadcasting industry would deal with post 9/11 America in general and comedy in particular.
The MSM was buzzing for weeks in response to Letterman’s magnificent tour-de-force on the first night back live post 9/11 for single-handedly guiding the vast clueless public broadcast industry and its equally clueless audience through completely uncharted territory in transforming
America’s new entertainment consciousness post 9/11 to reflect a more restrained level of demeanor and decorum.
Returning from the monologue after a break, Letterman introduces Danny boy, asking him to provide his expert, anchor-tinted (and tainted) perspective on it all. (The Twin Towers were hotter than OJ in hell, Danny boy might have said.)
Anyway, Danny begins by mumbling something forgettable, then blurts out in a pained, melancholy tone (as I recall)….
“America will never be the same again”…. and suddenly starts reciting a verse from “America the Beautiful” (almost to himself…)
….. For beautiful and spacious skies, with amber waves of grain…….. and then, all of all sudden, Danny buries his head into his cupped hands and begins to sob UNCONTROLLABLY!! NO KIDDING! LIKE A BABY! (Must have been a premonition of Bush’s re-election victory.)
It took everyone by surprise! Reflexively, Letterman takes Danny’s hand and pats it in a sympathetic, comforting away as Danny wept, a flash flood of tears rolling down his face, Letterman continuing to comfort Danny boy,
(now, there, there….. it’ll be alright, Danny) until Danny regained his composure. NO KIDDING!! It was a very raw, emotional moment catching everyone off guard, not the least bit Letterman, who held Dan’s hand with what seemed genuine, heatfelt sympathy and understanding, connecting not only with the collective studio audience but the with the entire country.)
Dan bawled like a baby, his jingoistic, unapologetic patriotism flapping like “Old Glory caught Texas style during tornado high-season”.
An unforgettable scene.
I’m glad I missed that!
I should point out that I felt sorrier for Richard Nixon (even though I was against him at the time).
I’m glad I missed that!
I should point out that I felt sorrier for Richard Nixon (even though I was against him at the time).