Video - CBS News: Dan Rather's final sign-off with "courage"

[dzika]

Video - CBS News: Dan Rather's final sign-off with "courage" - 3/9

Video in Real Media format (2 minutes)

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1. Courage versus Rove Slime

Dan had a career of reslolute truth and courage. He may well be the last of the honest reporters on the major news networks and he will be missed. His early departure is all part of an insidious set-up and attack pushed by the nuts that want this country to go somnambulating into an open grave.

[helderheid]

2. I'D RATHER NOT SAY GOOD-BYE, DAN

http://gregpalast.com/

I'D RATHER NOT SAY GOOD-BYE, DAN
Wednesday Mar 9, 2005
By Greg Palast

Without his make-up, Dan looked like hell warmed over: old, defeated, yet angry. And he told our television audience something that just blew me away. American journalists, Dan Rather said, simply may not ask tough questions about George Bush or his wars.

“It’s an obscene comparison," Rather said, "but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people’s necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck."

Talking to another reporter, Dan told it straight about the careerism that keeps US reporters in line. “It’s that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore-in on the tough questions so often.”

Silence as patriotism. He admitted, “One finds oneself saying, ‘I know the right question, but you know what, this is not exactly the right time to ask it." It was making him ill and he was ready to say, basta, enough. Suddenly, there was fire in those eyes.

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[MelissaB]

3. Thanks, dzika!