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    Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years

    Breaking: Susan Boyle Loses Britain's Got Talent To 'Diversity'
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    09/29/09

    In reply to Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years
    And that's the frequency, Kenneth.
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    Image of TheologicalSong TheologicalSong
    09/29/09

    In reply to Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years
    gee, and here I thought he was a passionate, intelligent man who has served his country and done honorable work attempting to expose the machinations of things (as in this case. talk about minutiae all you want, but the man had a valuable point, albeit poorly executed, and calculatedly subverted by who knows who) and keep people honest. now I learn he's a loser. kinda arbitrary, dontcha think, John? how do you justify that kind of pronouncement? and what do you hope to accomplish in doing so?
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    09/29/09

    @TheologicalSong: Not crazy about the gleeful tone either. A massive corporation wins over a guy telling the truth and fighting for it.

    "Disgraced" newsman? Hey John Cook, please tell us why Rather being fired under political pressure from the Bush White House means he was "disgraced'.

    Someone fed him faked documents-hm, I wonder whom?- but the fact remains: not one single soul anywhere recalls Bush performing his required service. No one. Because he didn't. Bush lied about serving, he skipped out, and that has never been disproved.

    So yeah, ha-ha, Rather's illustrious career was destroyed. Why are you cackling about it? Who wins here? Surely not the truth. The only disgrace is on CBS buckling to support Bush's lying about his non-existent service in the Vietnam era, when so many other less privileged men were drafted to their deaths.
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    09/29/09

    @Baroness: Agreed. Dan Rather took one for the team. He got careless, sure, and those docs were fakes, but his premise was correct. Let's not forget that. W never served his full term in the National Guard, and everyone knows it. I'm sure he and Rove watched Rather's downfall (and the rise of Katie Couric) and laughed their asses off.
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    09/29/09

    @Baroness: thanks, B. well said.
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    09/29/09

    @Steverino Begins: amen, SB.
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    09/29/09

    @TheologicalSong: Forget it, Jake. It's Gawker.
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    09/29/09

    @TheologicalSong: I guess I was hoping this post was sarcastic? Because who celebrates W winning over the guy who said about him, "Keep in mind they are teetotally meetmortally convinced they have Ohio won."?
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    09/29/09

    @queenie: one would think.
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    09/29/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: exactly.
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    09/29/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: I adore this comment.

    And I'm on Team Rather here, too. Well, I think CBS is legally correct in their argument. But I'm not getting what Rather did that makes him a "loser" in some broader sense.
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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    09/29/09

    In reply to Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years
    I'd keep watching Rachel Maddow rather than Dan Rather.
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    09/29/09

    In reply to Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years
    What's he whining about? He's got more bread than a prison meatloaf.
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    09/29/09

    In reply to Having Lost His Crusade, a Disgraced Newsman Contemplates His Remaining Empty Years
    This one's as over as a midwest prom after the head cheerleader's left.

    In all seriousness, I'm sad to hear this -- Rather may always have been a publicity hound, but he's a good fella, too.

    Team Dan.
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    09/29/09

    @ithacabaron: Courage.
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    05/30/09

    In reply to Breaking: Susan Boyle Loses Britain's Got Talent To 'Diversity'
    I called this here early and to every one I know. She would not win. Mediocre voice. Look at/ listen to the semis - she was off-tune, missed beats.


    Also, as a 49-y.o. female, people who have not slept with me (and some who have) have confirmed to me that I don't look as old as she does. Alas, they usually said, it's not that you look 49, it's like she looks sixty-nine.


    She'll probably get a one-or-two CD deal and be allowed to return to Scotland and her cat, with lots more money. Cool!


    I thought she was a bit mentally deranged from the start. She is a fat, matronly-looking woman, not a sex pot, but the way she was shaking her hips at Simon and the two other judges freaked me a little.

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