Hs Dan Rather Gone Totally Nuts?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Anyone watch Dan last night as he breathlessly bounded from one prose exclamation to another? "Wake the kids and get them in the room because this is history coming alive tonight. This race is tighter than the rusty lug-nuts on a 57 Chevy." and on and on, like he was reading from a Dashiel Hammett pulp. Cracked me up.

 

[*Eve*]

I don't know about Dan, but Tom Brokaw had me in tears last night.

 

[Expertise]

Dan used to be so cool.

Hanging out with the Mujahadeen, reporting from the middle of hurricanes.

Now I have no trouble imagining him in a special care home complaining about teenagers stealing his potting soil.

Dangerous Dan is morphing in to Dimensia Dan.

I was just waiting for him to come out with the line " Where are you now Joe DiMaggio a nation turns its lonley eyes to you ... woo woo woo. Now to our correspondent in the Burrito"

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[CW]

The few times that I saw him,,,

I caught Dan a few times last night while CNN was at a commercial break,,, that guy needs to retire, SOON!!

He was boncing from one subject to another without the slightest vestage of a thread connecting the topics other than the very broad and general umbrella of it being an election day,,, I found it hard to keep up with him let alone make any sense of the flighty directions he was heading off on.

And this is so very sad to see,,, I used to respect him more than any other news anchor.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

This is a repeat.....

but.....

This morning he said, "If Texas is the taco state, and California is the Big Burrito? The Florida is the Hot Tamale."

I nearly fucking fell out of bed!!!!

 

[jcgirl]

Re: This is a repeat.....

but.....

This morning he said, "If Texas is the taco state, and California is the Big Burrito? The Florida is the Hot Tamale."

I nearly fucking fell out of bed!!!!

I nearly pissed myself I was laughing so hard


But hes definitly gotta retire, he kept messing up names last nite..........he once called bush.....Lazio....

 

[Wizard]

I missed that he didn't really say that did he???????????????

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

You noticed that too, huh? Ol' Dan's ordinarily the portrait of pure journalistic stoicism, but he sure got all riled up last night and he let his deep Texas soul shine through. (Where else could you be from to spout so many football metaphors? It was almost like Keith Jackson was doing the election play-by-play.)

My favorite Rather quote of the night:

"Gore's got his back to the wall, his shirttails are on fire, and the bill collector's at the door."

It brought a tear to ol' Ollie's eye.

(P.S. Lasher: you were right and I was wrong. Thank you for sparing us almost sure annhilation by calling off the 8-ball. It's not over yet, though... I hear the alien's counting votes in Broward County, Florida.)

 

[jcgirl]

Oh it wasn't nearly as funny as when they were showing the electoral map of the states. He was explaining that the flashing red ones were won in the previous election "by the good ole boys, Billy and Al........yet this election George Dubbayah has sunk his teeth in them deeper than a rattlesnake in a field mouse"

(I think someone should check his basement for pods)

 

[Shintani]

Hey, the guy is what, like 70? And he was on from 7 or 8 PM and STILL on this morning? Are the execs at CBS trying to kill him or just nuts?

Loved the studio fire on ABC as they signed off, by the way...

 

[jcgirl]

Well, since he was on at 7 and loony by 7:01......id say theyre nuts.......but i bet they had some awesome ratings, i was laughing my ass off the couch

 

[Bushido71XS]

I think he's taking colloquialism lessons from Dennis Miller.

 

[Skibum]

When he first came on at 7PM he was talking so fast I thought he was on speed. Or a zillion cups of coffee.

He was getting his facts wrong all night. He called Vermont a strong Republican state when he announced Senator Jim Jeffords had been relected. Jeffords was the only Republican to win a statewide office in Vermont, except for the state treasurer, who was on the ballot as a Republican and a Democrat.

 

[Ticklish Girl]

Re: This is a repeat.....

but.....

This morning he said, "If Texas is the taco state, and California is the Big Burrito? The Florida is the Hot Tamale."

I heard that too. He made another reference to jello, and another one to ice cream melting in a microwave. Maybe he was just hungry.

 

[Renee]

Sparky, I know I answered you on the other thread regarding that comment, but OMG, I'm still laughing about that one. He is going crazy. And yes Wizard, he really said that. lol.