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Let's start with the obvious: Dan Rather is an idiot.
I have no use for 'big left' Dan of today because when he occupied the anchor chair for years and years on CBS, he didn't do a damn thing.
Now he's got nothing left so he pretends he's left. He's not.
Jeffrey Meyer, of the right wing media site Newsbusters, notes:
Dan Rather, former anchor of the CBS Evening News, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to harshly criticize those in Congress calling for the U.S. to take military action against the terrorist group ISIS.
Speaking to anchor Brian Stelter on Sunday, August 24, Rather proclaimed that he will only listen to those who advocate boots on the ground “if you tell me you are prepared to send your son, your daughter, your grandson, your granddaughter to that war of which you are beating the drums.”
While some idiots will applaud that, they shouldn't.
It's the same pompous and discriminatory b.s. that prompted Dan Rather to treat Connie Chung like crap and get her fired when she was briefly made his co-anchor. Make no mistake, Dan Rather is a nasty, dirty person.
Members of Congress should not support war, Rather says, unless they are willing to send their loved ones into war.
It's not the ancient days of Dan Rather's boyhood.
Children are not chattel, they will not be sent somewhere.
They will make up their own minds.
If Connie Chung were in the Senate and pounding the drums of war, that's on Connie.
Dan's a stupid piece of s**t and the continued embrace of his sexist and out of date notions does not need encouragement.
Matthew Povich is his own person. What his parent Connie or Maury does? That's on them. That's not on him. If Matthew wants to join a war, wants to oppose a war, wants to ignore a war, that's on him.
This is b.s. and Dan Rather needs to be called out on it.
Here's Jessica Lange speaking at a 2005 peace rally:
JESSICA LANGE: There have been twice as many terrorist attacks in the three years since 9/11 than in the three years preceding 9/11. All their reasons for waging war on Iraq have been proven to be manipulation of facts, untruths and lies, lies, and more lies. And then he dares accuse us of being guilty of wrong thinking, a man who traffics in deadly lies, the front man for an administration who came into office with the intention of taking out Saddam and becoming an occupying force in Iraq, members of the Project for the New American Century, who promote an ideology of U.S. domination through the use of force, who have imposed their politics of scorch and burn on the American people and made us complicit against our will in their regime of shame.
And who are these men? Who are these men? Let’s talk for a minute about these masters of war, these same men that are sending our sons and our daughters, our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers to fight an undeclared and unconstitutional and unwinnable war for them. Let’s talk about their service records. Karl Rove did not serve. Paul Wolfowitz did not serve. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Newt Gingrich did not serve. Jeb Bush did not serve. The list goes on and on. And we know George W. did not really serve.
Click here to stream it or read it in full at Democracy Now!
Did you notice what Jessica did?
She held people accountable for their actions.
Jenna Bush is not responsible for what her father does. Malia Obama is not responsible for what her father does. Both women may agree with their father's choices, may disagree, may not care one way or the other. That's their right. That's every person's right.
Jessica Lange rightly pointed out that the War Hawks pushing the Iraq War didn't serve in the military. She didn't attack the children or grandchildren of War Hawks.
Dan still believes in chattel.
Shame on those who promote that nonsense.
Furthermore, the whole point of Dan's little stunt is to say what?
If Dick Cheney had forced Mary into the military (against her will) it would be okay for the US to go to war on Iraq?
No.
It wouldn't have made the illegal war right.
No one should die in this illegal war. Many have. I'm really not into wishing that the death toll rises but I guess when the career's over, when you're name is a disgrace, when you're a hateful old man with nothing to look forward but death, I guess then you just want everyone to die, eh, Dan?
Dan Rather's nonsense is wrongly seen as 'antiwar' or 'peace' only because there's no peace movement in the country.
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