Saturday, September 22, 2007
DAN SAVES DEMOCRACY
Suddenly, Dan Rather is an opponent of big government:
On CNN’s Larry King Live Thursday night, Dan Rather insisted that his $70 million lawsuit against CBS was an attempt to save “our democracy” from “big government interference and intimidation in news” ...
Whoa there, crazy old guy! You think you were attacked by “big government”? That’s not what your producer says:
What was different in our case was the brand new and bruising power of the conservative blogosphere, particularly the extremists among them. They formed a tightly knit community of keyboard assault artists ...
So who took Dan down - big government or a a “community of keyboard assault artists”? This story is jumping around like a ... searches for appropriate Ratheresque faux-folksy image ... like a square-dancin’ squirrel on a Gatlinburg griddle! The LA Times’ Tim Rutten ain’t none too impressed, no sir:
Dan Rather took the best seat in the house that Murrow built and then left the place a ruin. Now he has returned to torch the rubble.
CBS shouldn’t be alarmed; the last entity Rather tried to destroy ended up getting re-elected.