His career died long ago... at least we are not speaking ill of the dead. He earned it.

Agreed. Dictionary definition should be amended to read, "reporter ... , see Dan Rather."

@@alanscott7321 A reporter who was caught putting out a fake news story and got fired for it.

Yeah, so we can bad-mouth him now, so we don't have to speak ill of the dead!

@@bigverybadtom Yeah. Admitted he made a mistake, unlike some "news" channels that had to be sued to tell the truth.

Imagine in this day and age a professional that cannot tell you the definition of a woman. We've lost the plot... next step is to devolve into a third-world nation controlled by elitist shills.

WELL,,BACK IN HIS DAYS,,BEING,,TOTALLY HONEST,,WAS A ,,TRADEMARK,,NOT SO,,MUCH NOW,,, LIKE I SAID,,PROBABLY,,BEFORE,,,,HE CAME DOWN THAT,,ESCALATOR,,,,BUT,,HE DEFINITELY,,MADE IT,,MUCH MUCH WORSE,,,,

Before the dark times before the boomers

@@matthewnelson4298 People nowadays lack respect for each other or for their thoughts or opinions. I think everyone should be able to agree to disagree but try doing it with respect!

@@matthewnelson4298 Isn't Rather a boomer himself?

Just think, he and Biden are almost crib mates.

Not all long-lived people are good people.

In his memoir, he mentions early in his media career working during the McCarthy scare of the 1950's. The man's got one hell of a resume!

Very true. I met him back in 1997, at Sam Houston State University when they were dedicating the Dan Rather Communications building.

@@RoySFord Is it still called that?

I was a child when my parents watched him on the news.

I absolutely agree with you. These three were and always will be the GOAT news anchors.

as are Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Walter Cronkite....Stellar new anchors....no opinion, just objective reporting.....

@@BillyColeII-dr6dk Walter Cronkite however agreed with the firing of Dan Rather.

Dishonest people all major networks

It is rare now a day to see someone likes the 3 “truth” reporters, Dan Rather, Peter Jenning & Tom Brokaw.

Same.

Amen!!❤

Including the fake one which brought him down.

@@bigverybadtom Oh boo hoo. He made a mistake. He's an American. 🇺🇸

@@the_gold_canopy What Rather did was not a mistake, it was a crime. And it doesn't matter if Dan Rather was a Martian. You put out a fake news story, you get outed, you've lost all your credibility. Deal.

I remember him saying courage. I took it as a warning of what is to come. To take courage. We need reporters who are not afraid to go and get the real news.

This was Netanyahu's response to the AMERICAN lawmaker (Chuksumer) : "IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE, and we are not a banana country that is dictated to by anyone, EVEN AMERICA"... and yet the taxes of American citizens paid with sweat and tears gone to Israel😂😂😂 AIPAC lobbyist money is a haven for lawmaker and officials. Are you going to just watch them have fun with their lobbyists and your taxes, while you have trouble paying your taxes??,

@@ricyman5110 We have passed the event horizon, big war is in the near future. Soon none of any of this will matter.

Thumbs up to Cronkite, Brinkley and many others who never showed political partiality. Thumbs down to Rather and most every other demowoke 'journalist in recent memory. No independent thought equates to no values or principles desiring American solidarity. This country hasn't been this divided since before the Civil War. Wake up America.

These liars are the OPPOSITE of courageous.

Dan changed that. "Today, in President Bush's war in Iraq..." ~ D. Rather.

You should be taken into custody

Right

❤ Dan Rather. Truth, empathy and very informative!!

Fake news, however, is simply fake news. Like the story about the MacMartin Preschool supposedly being a den of child molestation and it was all proven a hoax.

And fake news is sometimes just fake news.

You can actually keep up with his views, up to the present day on current affairs, through the website substack, where he has one and writes many articles. You can see the most popular one at the top, "Why Am I Speaking Out?" Where he does reflect on America today? And his number one concern is for the survival of our democracy - and he feels the number one threat to it is Trump and those in his own party who out of fear and desire to ride his coattails won't oppose him. He takes great pains to say he's not left or right wing, or anything in between - but in today's two-party politics, "us vs. them", ultra-polarized atmosphere, where Trump called Democrats "vermin" - I guess that's hard for people to believe, yet I do. I've got plenty of concerns and issues with the Democrats and Biden, but when one party won't accept results of elections where they clearly lose the popular vote, nor can accept the majority of the nation don't agree with them on things like abortion: the choice is pretty clear.

I agree Dan Rather was one of the only reporters I knew of back in the day... He seemed to be everywhere and he had a commanding presence...for sure.....His only black spot was lying about the Zapruder film when he said Kennedy moved violently forward when we now all know it was "back and to the left" !

I grew up watching Cronkite and then Rather......but I also have great admiration for Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. They too, were great anchors in my opinion.

News will never be like that again,him Walter Cronkite,David Brinkley

@@jeffs8614 You forgot his fake news story about George W. Bush being AWOL using fake documents and getting caught at it. CNS had to dismiss him.

Same here.

So a known liar (he pushed a story that was a lie to sway an upcoming election) is someone you look up to?

Oh, you’re one of those paid liars. 😂

Journalist? Hahahaha good one!

Dang this man is history himself

Sad, he gave you the virus that poisoned journalism. When you fail to see through a bias fraud like Rather I would seek other employment than trying to decipher the news "objectively."

Don't forget Tom Brokaw.

​@@rhyancoleman6462Jim Lehrer

Yes, and therein lies the problem. Dan Rather was a journalist and did not seek to be the news. Today, many of the people on TV "news" (often opinion and commentary if cable unlike the original days of CNN) are personalities. Anderson Cooper appears on a New Years' Eve program doing shots with Kathy Griffin? It's unconscionable to me. The standards have gradually eroded, and things serious journalists of his era would never think of doing are now, somehow, accepted. People have become to interested in the talking heads themselves as a form of entertainment rather than the information that they are trying to (or should be) imparting.

Yea there’s just too many! As long as money can be made by reading the news and acting competition will be high.

All huge personalities these days are political grifters

@@adamhuffman3354 🤔

@@manofthehour6856 You are totally correct.

Treasures are typically buried on desert islands.

@@bigverybadtom - Ha. Ha.

@@grumpyoldlady_rants David Attenborough has been called a "national treasure" in Britain. He hates that.

@@grumpyoldlady_rants David Attenborough has been called a national treasure too, but he hates that.

He sure loved equating us colored folks with watermelons. "Obama couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." ~ Dan Rather.

Didn't biden just buy a bunch of fried chicken for some folks?

@@JayBee-cr8jm He non-apologized later that this was an ancient rural expression he grew up with that could apply to anyone, and I believe that it didn't occur to him that nearly everybody else would take it as a targeted insult. He should have thought it out. But I'd point out that Biden has said outrageous things that clearly display a negative opinion of the demographic that elected him.

He's been an ideological hack his entire career

@@akrenwinkle Biden's head has been out of order for the past decade.

Did you know that Rather attacked democracy and left it bleeding in the street with a prolapsed colon?

ha! that’s pretty cool

Very Cool❤

Dress up as an old rock musician and he will come to you.

That time never existed.

@@bigverybadtom Mind boggling how many low information dolts think media personalities like Dan Rather reported “news” without bias. I guess the old saying, “The brainwashed do not know they’re brainwashed”, still rings true today.

What day was that?

News is facts! Bias is opinion and slant!

@@mikeyposs3132 Exactly. We get Bias from the Fake News.

Superscript? LOL

Oddly the last Walter Cronkite award went to the anchor at ABC, David Muir.

They just read the news just like anchors do now. 😅

Trusting these dolts who are just well paid mouthpieces for the ruling class has been one of the biggest problems in this Country. Almost comical how millions are brainwashed on a daily basis by "The Anchorman" 😂

@@yvonneplant9434 The journalist has maintained that his ousting was a result of being scapegoated for the fallout from a 60 Minutes II report in 2004 on allegations that President George W. Bush went AWOL during part of his time in the Texas Air National Guard

He got blessed.

Same

Those AXS TV showed another side of Dan. He was still a keen, aware and prepared reporter. Dan showed being the genuine fan of those artists he interviewed. Bravo Dan. Bravo.

I cant ever say i ever knew or cared. Most kept it to themselves back in those days. They were true journalists

I did love his election night comments back in the 90s too. "The whole enchilada" when describing a candidate winning electoral votes, lol

This was Netanyahu's response to the AMERICAN lawmaker (Chuksumer) : "IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE, and we are not a banana country that is dictated to by anyone, EVEN AMERICA"... and yet the taxes of American citizens paid with sweat and tears gone to Israel😂😂😂 AIPAC lobbyist money is a haven for lawmaker and officials. Are you going to just watch them have fun with their lobbyists and your taxes, while you have trouble paying your taxes?x

@@ricyman5110 who is Chuksumer? Are you trying to spell Chuck Schumer? Goodness.

Leftist hack for a corrupt media.

The "Family Guy" program parodied his voice by having him whistle like a teakettle.

Better than Flo and Eddie?

I hope you do too. I, like so many others, grew up watching his broadcasts. A true journalist, patriot, and gentleman.

Might you contact him, cause randomly running into him is nil? Then come back to this thread & tell us please.

Dress up as an old rock star and Dan Rather will find you.

Yes those were the days ❤

Dan Rather got caught putting out a fake news story and got caught. Even Cronkite agreed Rather had to go.

Class act? Um not reallly, he drinks the wrong kool-aid.

Cronkite thought he should have been fired long before he finally was

@@moshegoldbergTheKing Cronkite hated Bush too, but thought Rather's firing was justified.

I remember a Punch magazine cartoon where a gypsy is sitting outside her wagon with a black eye. A sign is there saying, "Let the gypsy Mayo read your TRUE character." Dan Rather must have visited her.

Great liar. He left in disgrace.

Service? Dan Rather tried to join the Marines but washed out.

I heard him talk about not being familiar w many or any of the musicians he interviewed and that he didn't listen to music much before

His voice always captivated me.

He ended up interviewing musicians because that was all he could do once he was finished as a news anchor.

@@bigverybadtombless your heart- you have a lot of time on your hands to troll these comments

@@mhmorris2018 Just enough to have some fun with certain people.

Most likely staged an appeal to sympathy ... those things don't just happen ... like when he was beaten up for not knowing the correct frequency

@@wolfee904 I was watching the convention at the time, it was not a set up

You're deluded.

They say that about all liars and con men, even Trump, "He loves his country" even after displaying zero journalist integrity and spin.

Not so smart when he thought he could fool the world with fake documents.

"Obama couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." ~ Dan Rather.

He out out a fake news story, got caught, and CBS had to fire him. Deal.

Except for that time he was promoting a forged document to alter a presidential election.

Dan Rather is the perpetrator of the biggest fraud in journalism history.

Dan Rather lost his job for promoting a forged document to alter a presidential election. His sad story will be a cautionary tale taught in journalism schools forever.

Bill Cosby fooled us for fifty years too.

"...perfect cadence of voice..." Yes indeed! Exactly!

I feel very much the same about him, and was probably comforted by his cadence and candor from an early age as well. Thank goodness he still publishes his substack, and I hope he continues to do so for as long as possible. The man has so much wisdom he continues to deliver on a regular basis.

Bill Cosby sounded like a good guy to me as well. I had no suspicions of the awful truth about him.

As a child of four ...

Except for that fake news story incident that got him fired from CBS.

LOL, no, I doubt he thought it was weird. He probably got that often as he was so famous for decades. It sure would be more welcome than when he was attacked in the street circa 1986 ("What's the Frequency, Kenneth?") or the criticism he drew from the right. He always comes off as a true gentleman with old school Texas values.

LOL, I thought the same thing!

😮😢😮👌 What an amazing career and a person was the man. My only regreat is the 3 best anchors were NOT interviewed together, to give us a prespective where and when America got weak and when it changed and see if it matches my own belief of when it happened. " I believe the greatest moment for the U.S. economy was when the dollar depended or was backed by GOLD and NIXON in 1973 changed it to being backed by Saudi Arabian oil and offered them military protection and why all the Middle Eastern countries hate the devil as they see it. The U.S. the devil that ruined countries Irak, Lybia, Siria, Oman, Lebanon, Somalia, Irak and Afghanistan in order for just SAUDI ARABIA to be able to sell oil freely and at will and why it also put sanccions to countries like VENEZUELA (holding the biggest oil reserves in the entire world and is poor due to sanctions) so they don't sell the oil cheaper then Saudi Arabia and this ruined their economy and why we have currently a MASSIVE INVASION OF INMIGRANTS CROSSING OUR BORDERS AND BORDERS OF OTHER NATIONS LIKE COLOMBIA, PERU, ECUADOR, CHILE, PARAGUAY, AND MANY AMERICANS ARE UNAWARE WHY NO ONE, EITHER REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT RESOLVED IT IN 40 YEARS AND MAYBE SOMEONE NEEDS TO EXPAIN IT SO THAT EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND IS A PROBLEM CREATED BY OUR OWN DOING 😞 IF YOU WANT TO SOLVE THE INMIGRATION INVASION IS VERY SIMPLE, JUST STOP RUINING OTHER COUNTRIES ECONOMIES WITH WARS AND SANCTIONS AND STOP THE DOLLAR FROM CIRCULATING ALL OVER THE WORLD 😔 THIS WILL ALLOW THE ECONOMIES FROM ALL OTHER COUNTRIES THE WORLD TO HAVE BETTER ECONOMIES AND THEIR CITIZENS WILL HAVE NO NEED TO COME LOOKING FOR THE MIGHTY DOLLAR AND THE AMERICAN DREAM, BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO REASON FOR THEM TO COME HERE IF THEY COULD LIVE WELL IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. (maybe Americans can get educated and learn why no one has ATACKED AND FIX THIS MAJOR ISSUE. AND IS BECAUSE IN ORDER TO FIX THIS, OUR ECONOMY WOULD COLAPSE THE MINUTE THE DOLLAR STOPS CIRCULATING ALL OVER THE 🌎 WORLD. AND THESE ARE THE QUESTION I WOULD ASK MR. RATHER A VERY EDUCATED AND GREAT GENTLEMAN WITH LOTS OF KNOWLEDGE. And this is why and how DUBAI WAS BORN in just 40 years" 😊 I would of loved it if Brokraw, Jennings and Dan Rather would of interviewed me so I can explain in detail when the world became biological and the trillions of dollars spent on electronic weapons became obsolete. CROOKED DONNI #45 started the worst trade war of all wars in the past 80 years without a real plan to win and allowed China to become the #1 economic power coming out of the Pandemic 2020.😢 When the world finds out who is the Nano Expert Scientist 👉CHARLES LIEBER 👈 that got recruited by China and was paid almost 2 million dollars to create almost 48 killer viruses 🦠 and the F.B.1. on April 2019 @ Logan Airport, while trying to escape to Wuhan China, YANQING-YE CHINESE SPY 👈 she was areested with her assistant leutenant spy and is when the F.B.1. CONFISCATED 21 VIALS OF BIOLOGICAL SENSITIVE MATERIALS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN THEIR LUGAGGES AND SOCKS. 😮 WHEN THE F.B.1. ANNOUNCED THIS ARREST ON FEB. 2020 I WAS ABLE TO FIGURE OUT THE PANDEMIC THAT STARTED 2 MONTHS LATER ON APRIL 2020 WAS A RETALIATION TO DONALD TRUMPS ECONOMIC WAR‼️🤦😔 AND I WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FIRST PERSONS IN THE WORLD TO REALIZE DONALD TRUMP LIED TO THE WORLD THAT IT WAS A CHINESE FLU THEN THAT A CHINESE MAN ATE A BAT 🦇😂 THE MOST RIDICULOUS GREATEST LIE GIVEN BY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY. ON APRIL 2020 IS WHEN THE WORLD WAS PUT UPSIDE DOWN AND OUR ECONOMY RUINED. THE GOV. WAS OBLIGATED TO PAY PANDEMIC HELP TO AN ENTIRE NATION FOR 2.5 YEARS AND WHY WE NOW HAVE A 35 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. WHAT ALSO GOT THE U.S. IN DEBT WAS SPENDING ON WEAPONS IN WARS LASTING 20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAK, LYBIA, WHILE CHINA AND RUSSIA SPENT THEIR MONEY WISELY AND BUILDING PROJECTS LIKE NORD-STREAM THE SALE OF GAS TO ALL EUROPE AND ASIA. AND IT'S WHY NOW THE U.S. HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO CREATE THE III WORLD WAR DUE TO THIS MASSIVE DEBT AND B.R.I.C.S. 😢 BECAUSE BRICS WILL NOT DEAL ANY LONGER WITH THE DOLLAR 💵💰.😢 AND USE THE YUAN AND THE RUBLE INSTEAD (Putin heard all Americans they want the massive invasion of immigrants fixed 😂 well he will fix it for you l, but when the DOLLAR STOPS CIRCULATING IN 13 COUNTRIES OUR ECONOMY WILL COLLAPSE 😔 DON'T ASK TO FIX SOMETHING LIKE INMIGRATION IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE DOLLAR WORKS‼️😔 THIS IS WHY U.S.A. AND NATO ARE TRYING TO ASSASINATE PUTIN AND STOP MORE COUNTRIES FROM JOINING B.R.I.C.S. 😢 IT IS NOT PUTIN TRYING TO PUT MILITARY BASES IN TIJUANA OR MONTREAL CANADA BUT IS THE UNITED STATES STILL INCISTING ON WEAKONING RUSSIA'S ECONOMY (Nord-Stream). 🦠🔥🦠 I WOULD OF LOVED TO GIVE DAN RATHER THE EXCLUSIVITY TO INTERVIEW ME SO I CAN SHOW HIM IN DETAIL HOW THE 2020 PANDEMIC STARTED. THANK YOU MR. RATHER FOR ENLIGHTENING MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND IMPECABLE PROFESSIONALISM ✌️🙋😉

Yes, nothing but truth. lol

"Obama couldn't sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." ~ Dan Rather.

Rather's Blather.

You can correct that.

But putting out the fake news story using obviously fake documents made him a goat. Walter Cronkite hated Bush but agreed Dan Rather has to go.

Personally, I don’t throw around the word “trustworthy” to describe someone I dont really know.

He was caught putting out a fake news story and CBS had to dismiss him. So much for trustworthy.

@@A2D4 Especially someone who got fired for putting out a fake news story.

I find Lester Holt at NBC to be trustworthy.

We're coming up on almost 20 years since the iPhone. No coincidence.

What a life, what an American 🫡

Did he ever explain how he became a embellishing liar?

@Jeff-sp7bg wow really. 👌. Keep up the good work of being a piece of crap.

I respect your most beautiful comment,I agree and he is a treasure and a man of honesty and integrity ,I've watched dan rather since I was a child in the 70s ,from NYC cbs new york channel 7 ,peace

Yes, he proved to be a bad example.