I wasn’t arguing that anyone should cut Rather, Mapes or anyone else “some slack.”

What I was arguing that you can’t have it both ways. You can’t complain that even if Rather blogged, he wouldn’t permit comments, while at the same time taking cheap shots at him or simply dismissing him as a liar or a fraud. That’s not exactly the way to conduct an online discussion.

I’m not a Rather apologist, and I’m not trying to “rehabilitate” him. But I am saying is that if you want someone to have a conversation about their opinions (and I’m taking people at their words that is what they would want in this case), then you have to actually be willing to listen. Especially if you think he’s full of crap.

Hey, if you’ve made up your mind, that’s fine. But it strikes me that’s the same closed mind behavior that irritates people about Rather.

And while Clooney may not make a movie glorifying Rather, some future Hollywood lib may well film some revisionist history. After all that’s what Good Night and Good Luck was.

How about the cheap shot directed at Bush, the crux of this whole affair? Or are you one of those moonbat Neandertals still not getting the forged documents and the abuse of journalistic ethics?

Trying to rehabilitate Dan Rather is a fool’s chore.

Snark? Ever watch a Mapes interview since her dismissal?

Then again, if Rather did engage in mutual conversation, then we might know what Dan actually thinks of what Dave says he thinks of what Dan might have said….

Showing interest in him on any level just shows that the public does not learn its lessons well. His biases interfered with his job. This was not a singular instance. Some of us actually tuned him out. He has had longevity, but not integrity.

Why the hell should we care if he is still spewing?

Perhaps he just regrets that George Clooney won’t make a movie about him.

Well, Lucy Ramirez is still “Out of Sight.”

You really think, Jeff, that Rather and his sidekick Mapes desired transparency? Input from the public at large on their big bombshell project? I think not.

Their suspiciously agenda-driven and hardly reliable sources for that hit piece would have made a person of integrity walk away or vett the story better. And, that’s before the MSFT Word snafu blew up. They admitted a need to rush the story to the airwaves before an election. Damning enough?

Too bad the arrogant fool didn’t choke up during a nationalized apology to the object of his duplicity, as well as the innocent audience he had planned to dupe.

Rather will never publically blog. It takes original talent, informality, honest inquiry and humility. His anchor career as a glorified weather announcer would hardly have given him those skills. He’s a nothing, as so many of his ilk are, after you scratch the surface.