Standing By Dan Rather
I mean in the literal sense, as in Dan and I on the Charles Bridge in Prague at midnight. Sounds like a John LeCarre plot twist, but here we are ten years later and no one’s standing by Dan, as he twists in the wind rather than the plot. Be sure what you say is true, Dan. No matter the distortions and outright lies that buzz about our faces on a daily basis like flies in a cow pasture, when you’re the main man and you make that red-light-to-viewer eye contact, it better not be a seventies document written on Microsoft Word.
We’re unforgiving about those things, Dan. We’ll forgive our president a forged document here or there to get us in a war, but he’s just our president. You’re supposed to be made of sterner stuff, Dan and although it’s a heavy load to carry, we hold our network news anchors to a higher standard. The gentlemanly thing would be to resign. Even Nixon knew that. Besides, it’s been a long and successful road and everybody (except Mike Wallace) has to eventually hang up t…