Eighty-six-year-old liberal journalist Dan Rather seems to be getting more conspiratorial as he ages. The disgraced ex-CBS Evening News anchor on Monday speculated that the reason NBA star LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Los Angeles Lakers is to... fight Donald Trump.
It’s true that James is liberal, but one respondent on Twitter perhaps summed up how odd Rather’s conspiracy theory is: “I dunno. I think he went there to play basketball for the Lakers.”
Rather wasn’t done offering deep thoughts on Monday. Later in the day, he linked the summer heat to global warming.
Actually, it’s often liberals who blame winter-like conditions in winter on global warming, such as CBS This Morning hosts did in 2014. On January 21, 2011, ABC host Diane Sawyer fretted: “Another winter storm roared through today. More records were toppled, and it heightened that question: Do the leading scientists now agree that this is global warming?”
On Tuesday, Rather ended his political rants (for the day anyway) with this chiding of political battles with Canada:
Perhaps age isn’t the problem for the journalist On May 27, 1993, Rather hailed (then) new president Bill Clinton by telling the Democrat he was “great” and that CBS was “pulling” for Hillary. Rather has never been subtle.
