Dan Rather's coup de grace

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Well, he's officially been booted from CBS. It's remarkable how quickly he went from legendary journalist to hack in many people's eyes. Kind of sad.

― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Word is that he's going to Mark Cuban's HDNEt.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

What's the MOTHERFUCKING FREQUENCY!??!??!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

The guy's 74 (although he sure doesn't look it). Maybe he should just hang it up.

― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think he pretty willingly contributed to his descent into hack-dom. He did a bunch of those seriously bad "murder mystery of the week" type specials. He was really funny during the '00 election though, breaking out all those non-sequiter colloquialisms ("and if a frog had pockets he'd carry a pistol", "this election's hotter than a Times Square Rolex", etc.)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/17/arts/rather.190.jpg

Poor Dan

― Super Cub (Debito), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't the Rather thing happen more or less the same time that CBS folded on the Reagan miniseries? For awhile there (still?) it looked like CBS was willing to kowtow to the slightest wingnut pressure.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

This article is somewhat tragically amusing.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

I never forgave him for posing eagerly with Fidel, the happy pair holding baseball bats, in 1994 at a conference in NYC.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

"Rather poses with brutal military dictator shockah"

http://gblx.cache.el-mundo.net/magazine/imagenes/2004/273/1103136675.jpg

― Half loaf, half pompadour (noodle vague), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

omg, Redford as Rather. I thought he didn't do accents?

http://deadline.com/2014/09/elisabeth-moss-truth-movie-casting-839530/

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:32 (eleven years ago)

who cares about a Dan Rather movie – the Geritol set?

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:40 (eleven years ago)

It could at least be funny if they got Harry Shearer...

well I never understood the fuss about The Insider.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:42 (eleven years ago)

Rather seems like a classic case of too much success too early, so that he didn't need to grow into his public stature. The movie definitely needs to linger on that "what's the frequency, Kenneth?" incident.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:40 (eleven years ago)

it's just going to be on Rathergate/BushNationalGuardgate

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:42 (eleven years ago)

I dunno, Rather was 32 when he became White House correspondent... didn't get the nightly anchor til he was 49, tho he was already a star.

1986: frequency incident
2004: Bush Natl Guard story

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:46 (eleven years ago)

remember this? Held up as a "victory" for Poppy. Man, I forget how shrill he sounded in public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqwQw3THRvU

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:52 (eleven years ago)

James Vanderbilt, the A-list screenwriter behind the first two installments of The Amazing Spider-Man

― da croupier, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:55 (eleven years ago)

$-list

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:30 (eleven years ago)

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