Dan Rather was on Morning Joe this morning, trying to make himself relevant to the national conversation on the election.
Rather, who isn’t dead as some rumors have had it but only buried on the Current TV Network, was in an expansive mood:
“Something in my gut tells me that it’s going to be a good day for Romney,” Rather said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “But as a reporter, you don’t report your gut. The polls all indicate, yes, Obama, he has several paths to victory, Romney has only one. But don’t taunt the alligator until after you cross the creek.”
Did you miss those homespun “Ratherisms” as much as I did? Right. I didn’t care for them much either. But here’s a little trip down memory lane as we feature the best of the worst Ratherisms over the years:
“This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.”
“His lead is as thin as turnip soup.”
“This race is humming along like Ray Charles.”
“The presidential race is swinging like Count Basie.”
“This race is hotter than the Devil’s anvil.”
“Ohio becomes like a sauna for the two candidates. All they can do is wait and sweat.”
“This situation in Ohio would give an aspirin a headache.”
“Bush is sweeping through the South like a big wheel through a cotton field.”
“This presidential race has been crackling like a hickory fire for at least the last hour and a half.”
“We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he’d carry a handgun.”
“We had a slight hitch in our giddy up, but we corrected that.”
I challenge you to imagine a frog with side pockets without wondering about the frequency that Mr. Rather was accessing at the time.
I’ve been waiting for Texas to disown this man, but it doesn’t seem to be among Rick Perry’s priorities. I doubt whether any red-blooded Texan would be caught dead uttering one of those ridiculous nostrums, which only makes Rather even more of a pitiful character.
All in All I’d ‘Rather’ that Dan just find an ice floe,cast off, and take a really l o n g ride.
How can someone who was discredited so freakin’ thoughly be asked anything but the time and weather?
While he’s at it, could he call up Jimmy Carter and ask him if he wants a free,scenic trip…..? {Hey, a guy can fantacize some, can’t he…?}
Ummm….yeah. I did think he was dead.
“Kenneth, what is the frequency of vote fraud?”
Dan Rather is an Ass.
An arrogant Ass.
But at least in his hey-day, when they had a full monopoly on the News Narrative, there was a level of politeness among them…
A smug, condescending snobbishness in the formality with which they talked down to us, yes…
But at least we were spared rudeness of “Cock Punches” and “Talking Vaginas” and outright calls for violence against us, as we have with this current crop of Left Wing Psychopaths, who simply go ballistic with rage over their diminishing importance in the world.
And I thought Dan Rather was beneath my contempt.
Congratulations MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of you.
You really are better (at being asses) than the Grand Old Media ever was
I hold no brief for the ridiculous Rather, but ‘Let ‘em roll, like a big wheel in a Georgia cotton field’ is the great Joe Turner’s intro to ‘Honey Hush’. Listen and marvel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6mOgG5kvA&feature=related
My personal favorite “nostrum” from here in the Great State of Maine (as goes Maine so goes Vermont!)…
Slicker than goose sh#t on a hardwood floor….
Don’t forget Ross Perot’s famous bon mot, “you can lead a Horse to Peanut Butter, but you can’t make him chew.”
Dan Rather is like Harrison Ford’s pierced ear; retarded.
– than a witches’ coven.
Colder than Dan Blather’s lies…