Is Dan Rather a racist? Despite this outrageous comment, we don’t think so. We think it was just a poor attempt on Rather’s part to create one of those artificially-folksy idioms for which he’s famous.
Rather: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. “Listen he just hasn’t been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death.” And a version of, “Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
Now, then, had you asked Is Dan Rather stupid, well, that’s a whole different question.
Source: NewsBusters.org
