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Dan Rather on Rachel Maddow is saying Yes Ryan may be toxic right now BUT he could develop (Original Post) Justice wanted Aug 2012 OP
Dan Rather couldn't hold Cronkites pipe. matmar Aug 2012 #1
He has to have something to report on for the next 3 months Motown_Johnny Aug 2012 #2
Dan was too conciliatory and too friendly to Robme. I was trying to figure out why that was. Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2012 #3
lol robme rbrnmw Aug 2012 #4
He seemed to want to try to be "objective" BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #5
 

matmar

(593 posts)
1. Dan Rather couldn't hold Cronkites pipe.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:42 PM
Aug 2012

Rather is/was a corporate newsperformer. Nothing of real substance like Amy Goodman.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
2. He has to have something to report on for the next 3 months
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:44 PM
Aug 2012

and admitting that Florida is now out of reach for R&R puts him out of a job.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
3. Dan was too conciliatory and too friendly to Robme. I was trying to figure out why that was.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 09:47 PM
Aug 2012

Going out of his way to leave the door open for a Robme win. It was odd.

BumRushDaShow

(129,376 posts)
5. He seemed to want to try to be "objective"
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 10:03 PM
Aug 2012

I don't know... I was actually surprised how much he was trying to hold back going full on criticizing Rmoney by doing the "weathervane hedge" of a "journalist" vs the "commentator" (with an opinion) view that Rachael does. I.e., I am so used to rethug media blowhards shilling for rethugs that I felt what he said didn't rise to the level of crap that you hear from Creepy Crawly or Blitzkrieg or stupidfuckidous or Rather's shadow Scheiffer.

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