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March 10, 2005

Rather Not

I went to the Center for the American Experiment's 61st Minute party last night.

I sat at the AM1280 table with Patrick Campion, Jay Larson, Saint Paul, Sarah Janecek, and a bunch of other conservative bon vivants; I actually caught almost none of the broadcast itself.

Patrick Ruffini did:

In one breath, he recalled racist epithets hurled his way by the most odious white supremacists, and with a clever twist of phrase, we are then shown images of the word "liberal" arrayed menacingly on anti-Rather web sites. The parallel drawn is clear:

"I remember the first time someone accused me of being an 'N' lover. There was a lot of that during the '60s when I covered the civil rights movement," says Rather. "Then you move forward from civil rights to the Vietnam War. 'We're gonna hang a sign around you which calls you some bad name: anti-military, anti-American, anti-war.'"

Then, Watergate happened, and Rather says that "was the first time I began to hear the word liberal as an epithet thrown my way."

What a cheap trick. Does Rather thinks he gets a free pass on the TANG story because he was on the right side of civil rights in the '60s, or because he harbors the illusion that his critics today are the same as his critics back then? If so, Rather is even more out of it than I thought.

Watch the mainstream media to start portraying Rather's news twilight as a portrait in courage; I half expect Nick Coleman to trot out the "defending the observatory from the pitchfork-wielding peasants" analogy again.

Posted by Mitch at March 10, 2005 07:17 AM | TrackBack
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Mitch,

Nick had a mole at the banquet last night. You ought to live blog the 2nd hour of his show (featuring a discussion of Rathergate with the always fair minded Brian Lambert)

LF

Posted by: LearnedFoot at March 10, 2005 08:02 AM

Foot,

I caught a bit of that today. Let's just say there are issues.

More later today.

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