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2006-07-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by ryuge 2006-07-12 06:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dan Rather's "baggage" is more like a 40-foot steel container with hazmat placards.

Posted by Mike 2006-07-12 06:47|| 2006-07-12 06:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.
Always comes back to that don't it? Like a 3-legged yellow dawg limping back to the pig carcasss under the trailer steps.

Posted by 6 2006-07-12 06:52|| 2006-07-12 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I didn't think my opinion of Dan could get any lower.

Then ... Yes, I have baggage -- I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam," he said.

Now it's all so clear!

Posted by Bobby 2006-07-12 06:55|| 2006-07-12 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 HDNet, which is available in about 3 million homes.

By any count 3 million is such a tiny market that it looks like they hired him just for the splash, not any real content. He is done and HDNet is just using him to get circulation. Pathetic.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-07-12 07:28|| 2006-07-12 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Cuban: another idiot who doesn't understand the economics of the new media.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-12 07:39|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-12 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Leave me out of it, willya kid?
Gotta match?

Posted by The Ghost of Edward R. Murrow 2006-07-12 07:51|| 2006-07-12 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Cuban was one of the few who got rich on the DotCom bubble. He understands enough to hype, sell stock, buy a basketball team.

Posted by ed 2006-07-12 08:11|| 2006-07-12 08:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sure that time he was in Vietnam is seared.....seared into his mind.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-12 08:36|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-07-12 08:36|| Front Page Top

#9 "I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam,"
How very Kerry-esque. Will we be hearing this in every interview from now on?

"I have a very strong bias toward independent journalism."
Tough talk from one of the liberal media's long-time corporate pawns. Personally, I don't count slanderous reports based on forged documents to be journalism, but that's just me.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-12 09:16|| 2006-07-12 09:16|| Front Page Top

#10 yawn. What are they calling the show? DAN RATHER'S INFOMERCIAL TO PROMOTE FAILED 20TH CENTURY IDEALS?

I wonder whose informercial will get better ratings? The preacher with the bad toupee who will pray for you if you send money; the ladies selling skin cream that will instanty make you thin, beautiful, and wrinkle free; or Dan.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-12 09:32|| 2006-07-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#11 #5 Cuban: another idiot who doesn't understand the economics of the new media.
Posted by phil_b 2006-07-12 07:39

And an idiot whose on court antics distracted his NBA team during the NBA Finals. I'm so glad the Miami Heat kicked his ass!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-07-12 09:52|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-07-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Dan has baggage from Vietnam?

Yes... I guess half a million dead Vietmanese killed in 'reeducation camps' would be a bit of baggage for anyone in the MSM...

Cronkite has baggage too....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-12 11:02|| 2006-07-12 11:02|| Front Page Top

#13 And two millions of Cambodians. I dream of a Nuremberg of the most prominent anti-Vietnam-War activists. And have Jane Fonda swing on a rope.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-12 11:58|| 2006-07-12 11:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Always comes back to that don't it? Like a 3-legged yellow dawg limping back to the pig carcasss under the trailer steps.

ya don't hafta be nasty 'bout it!!

Posted by 3 legged yeller dawg 2006-07-12 13:16|| 2006-07-12 13:16|| Front Page Top

#15 He wasn't talking about you 3LYD, he thinks you're as cute as a June Bug on a Ferris Wheel.

Posted by Dan Rather 2006-07-12 14:30|| 2006-07-12 14:30|| Front Page Top

#16 Now, it's "What the frequency, Mark"

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-12 17:29|| 2006-07-12 17:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Cuban was one of the few who got rich on the DotCom bubble.

I know people who got rich in the dotcom bubble and then lost a bucketful of money afterwards when they had to actually earn money from their dotcoms.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-07-12 18:05|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-12 18:05|| Front Page Top

#18 "I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam"

Ah yes. The one with the North Vietnamese professors and Soviet "custodial staff".

Posted by Fordesque 2006-07-12 21:40|| 2006-07-12 21:40|| Front Page Top

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