Dan just made a total arse out of himself on CNN's "Larry King Live"...

I am still thoroughly amazed by the lies that issue from the babbling heads of Rather and Mapes. I was floored when Mapes was interviewed by Bozell and she clung to a belief that the documents were " never non authenticated". That made perfect sense to her since most news is now "aspersions and insinuations". That's how it is done today, it's a conspiracy implied by a percieved possible intent manufactured with decuded insinuations from rumored to be dark ideations emanating from the target.

So of couse Rather and Mapes think everything they did was perfectly fine, they've been doing the same thing for decades. The immense depth and intricacy of the lies woven into the "possible dark scenario" Rather presented that night are what is truly startling, the realization upon perusing the investigative report, that they had done it thousands of times before and were merely going about it the way they had been for decades, not to mention the more than obvious questions left unasked yet deftly covered up by slipped in errant speculations concerning something else.

I suspect Rather feels he was at the leading edge of his profession, able to cobble together a gigantic twisted mess of falsifications and smears and present them in a controlled fashion designed to cause everyone who witnessed the spectacle to never be aware of the paper thin lies the whole charade was premised upon. He considered himself the magical master of such a thing.

Here we see how the precious lying sack of crap cries out that his overblown seventy some year old carcass wasn't flown off to a spot where he could launch another ridiculous lie on the American people:

" Among the most egregious indignities he suffered, Mr. Rather says, was the network’s response to his request to be sent as a correspondent to the scene of Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005. Mr. Rather is the most experienced reporter in the United States in covering hurricanes,” his lawyers write in the suit. “CBS refused to send him,” thus “furthering its desire to keep Mr. Rather off the air.”

http://www.nytimes.com/200...

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" Egregious indignity " This is the type of people we have "giving us the news". Their self-assessment is blown so far above the clouds of reality that they must be talked to, treated, and related to in a manner that, at all times, " pays homage to their own glorious legend of themselves that resides inside their heads ". Sensitive, fragile, elitists.

Does it ever occur to them that there are thousands up on thousands of viewers that can add two digit numbers in their own head, unlike Dan Rather, who could never "do the math", and are consciously aware of their gigantic string of lies and setup fantasies they molded into " an attack " that Rather claimed at the time was backed by "unimpeachable sources" and "multiple experts" ( who it turns out told him to take a hike when "verificiation" was the question. ) Dan Rather, like Bagdad Bob, will pretend until the day he dies.

I guess much like the coarse and degraded culture nowadays, the horror that a human being like Dan Rather exists and is active in the modern media spectacled parody of itself, is the reason it is so fascinating. It's why Charles Manson had to be locked up instead of executed, so many people wanted to study him like one observes something not yet understood, with horror, and the rare hope that they "snap out of it" .

That's how I view Dan Rather, a liar up front and foremost, yet slithering around on screen before in a pretense of credibility, and self-proclaiming that he has met the standard by which he should be judged correct, when the opposite is much more obvious to all. The ignorant arrogance is entertaining.

In a dark way I realize he can never allow himself to believe otherwise, not only publicly, but privately, or he'd have a tremendous breakdown from the decades of deception and literally go insane trying to face himself, and more likely than not winding up committing suicide, like Hunter S Thompson.