America Strikes Back

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From a REAL American!

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2001 7:40 p.m. EDT
Dan Rather: Born Again!
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While the major media - notably Peter Jennings at ABC World News Tonight - have earned appropriate criticism for their incessant sniping at President Bush, Dan Rather is earning praise.

Brent Bozell's Media Research Center began its news alert today by saying, "Dan Rather has done plenty over his career to earn the suspicions of conservatives, but Monday night, on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, Rather displayed emotion and patriotic fervor which all Americans should respect."

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The alert continued: "Rather twice broke down into tears, and had to stop speaking, in what certainly appeared to be genuine outpourings of emotion as he recalled the heroic work of the firefighters and later recited lines from 'America the Beautiful.'

"Rather wondered: 'Who can sing now, with the same meaning we had before, one stanza of that that goes 'so beautiful for patriot's dream, that sees beyond the years, thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears.' We can never sing that song again, that way. ...'

"Rather's appearance on the somber Late Show, the first produced since the terrorist attacks, came after Letterman opened the program with a very emotional chain of thoughts.

"Rather generated applause for praising President Bush as 'Giuliani-esque' for looking 'the camera straight in the eye, unblinking' and saying: 'Osama: Dead or alive.'

"A couple of minutes later Rather promised: 'But I couldn't feel stronger, David, that this is a time for us - and I'm not preaching about it - George Bush is the President. He makes the decisions, and, you know, it's just one American, wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where. And he'll make the call.'

"As for why the U.S. has not yet struck back, Rather wisely counseled: 'There’s a saying in the Far East. Revenge is best served cold. Which is to say, wait your time, take your time. It's also, Rudyard Kipling wrote, that the law of the jungle is, you never lose your temper. Well, we're past that. We've lost our temper. And I'm sorry I've shown [emotion] so clearly here tonight, but there's a rage within in all of us that has to be sort of tempered while we take care of business.'"


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