This post by John Weidner calls to mind a conversation I had, just today in fact. It was on the subject of Dan Rather, and coincidently the name Nixon came up. I was telling a friend of mine that my first recollection of actually noticing Dan Rather was from a Nixon press conference in the Watergate days. Nixon was under heavy fire at the time. He recognized Rather for a question and the press gallery applauded. Nixon noticing the applause quipped "Are you running for something?" Rather answered "No, are you?"
In those days, and today for that matter, I thought Nixon belonged in jail. But at that moment I had an instant dislike for Dan Rather. There hasn't been one thing between then and now to change that, unless you want to count CBS's new forgeries that they're trying to pass off as news. And they don't change really anything, they just make me dislike him all the more.
He could redeem himself very easily, though. All he needs to do is tell us the make and model of a 1973 vintage typewriter that used a proportional Times New Roman font and had a super script capability. Should be no problem, right?
Update: Here's one that's close. Via Tim Blair. But not as close as Microsoft Word.
I can't stand Peter Jennings, I just have a dislike for him that I couldn't explain until I realized that he reminds me of John Kerry. Imperious, haughty and it's always someone else fault, he is incapable of accepting failure or blame for his own actions.
Maybe I'm putting the cart before the horse. Perhaps I can't stand John Kerry because he reminds me of Peter Jennings!
Posted by: Warren | September 12, 2004 at 08:35 PM