• Getting roughed up on Park Ave in NYC in 1986 by a crazy guy who thought TV signals were being beamed into his brain, and kept shouting at Rather "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" (Crazy guy murdered an NBC stage-hand a few years later.) REM was inspired to write a song.
• Using fake documents to try and sabotage George Bush's 2004 campaign, in what became known as Rathergate. He was forced to retire from CBS News a few months later.
I had a preacher, he had a saying, you don't know what's inside a person until they get squeezed. Dan Rather was a perfectly normal respectable guy until he got squeezed. If you squeeze Jake you get Jake juice, if you squeeze Amanda you get Amanda juice. Dan Rather got squeezed and we got Dan Rather juice. The truth is he wasn't that bad until the day he was.
You idolized Dan Rather?!
This.
That Dan Rather was ever idolized by anyone is an outcome that I had never considered.
I found him repellent as a child. I find anyone who speaks as if they are an authority but just reads a script aloud in front of a camera repellant.
When I think of him I think of him:
• Being punched in the stomach and knocked to the floor at the 1968 Dimocrapic Convention.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wItUjFU1i4M]
• Getting roughed up on Park Ave in NYC in 1986 by a crazy guy who thought TV signals were being beamed into his brain, and kept shouting at Rather "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" (Crazy guy murdered an NBC stage-hand a few years later.) REM was inspired to write a song.
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkMhCLkVOg]
• Using fake documents to try and sabotage George Bush's 2004 campaign, in what became known as Rathergate. He was forced to retire from CBS News a few months later.
[https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/why_its_important_to_remember_rathergate.html]
I had a preacher, he had a saying, you don't know what's inside a person until they get squeezed. Dan Rather was a perfectly normal respectable guy until he got squeezed. If you squeeze Jake you get Jake juice, if you squeeze Amanda you get Amanda juice. Dan Rather got squeezed and we got Dan Rather juice. The truth is he wasn't that bad until the day he was.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a TV news anchor. Even got a J-degree from a top school. Turns out I have a face made only for radio.