September 17, 2004, 09:40 AM
Ratherly the same
A keen reader recently e-mailed Chronically Biased a clipping of the Bloom County cartoon strip. It was drawn around 1984, and it's rather telling.
In the mid-eighties Dan Rather was on the top of his game. On November 29, 1985, the UK Telegraph reported that at that time, Dan Rather was “earning eight times as much as President Reagan” while reaching “a nightly audience of 22 million.”
This Wednesday, Dan Rather prefaced Evening News with the following:
CBS News, 60 Minutes, and this reporter drew fire today over our reports that raised questions about President Bush's military service record, including whether he followed orders and whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard.
That cartoon, although it's about 20 years old, shows that Dan Rather is 'ratherly' the same.
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