The Other Shoe

I don't know if you've heard about it or not, but Dan Rather sure has been acting funny lately.

Describing his love of CBS and CBS News, Rather observed in the interview last year: "In my mind and the minds of the people I work with, this is a magical, mystical kingdom -- our version of Camelot. And we feel we are working at a kind of roundtable of King Arthur proportions. Now, it may be that this kingdom exists only in our minds."

CBS as Camelot "may" exist only in their minds? More likely, it does exist in Gunga Dan's mind alone.

At any rate, it's a good thing that their table is round. The sharp edges found on conventional rectangular tables have been known to cause injuries to the elderly. Inasmuch as the median age of this particular Camelot...Rather, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace...has to be something like 78, the risk of a table-edge-related-injury is serious indeed. Makes me wonder why Cronkite thought he was old enough to retire when he is even now, 24 years after his retirement, still young enough to fit right in with the rest of the crack team of newshounds at the CBS Phooeybunker.

"Ed Murrow's ghost is here. I've seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he's watching over us."

Actually, Murrow's ghost may be trying to talk to Rather, but not for the reasons Dan might think. If Murrow is indeed haunting CBS, I have no doubt that he's trying to steer the former Tiffany Network back toward sanity. Or, at the very least, back toward credibility.

If so, Murrow's got his work cut out for him. Rather's done a damn fine job of destroying the credibility of CBS News.

And I don't think there's a ghost of a chance the network will be recovering that anytime soon.

UPDATE:  This (scroll down) is absolutely hilarious. Ruckin' Rasshole indeed!

-posted by Charlie Eklund

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