An editorial about Dan Rather’s career ran in a recent edition of the Springfield, Illinois State Journal-Register.
The article mentioned some of the lower points of Mr. Rather’s career, including
Can someone please fill me in on the details and signifigance of this statement?
Thanks.
Was there any particular reason why the assailant called him “Kenneth”?
He was a gibbering whack job?
Because only a sick mother-fucker would call him Bill. What is wrong with you?
Well, I’ve had enough ‘song and dance’ from everyone on the matter it is past time for ‘the straight dope’ on this.
What is the frequency?
How could one determine the correct frequency without Dan Rather’s confession? Could standard tinfoil block these types of transmissions or would this require ‘Heavy-Duty’ gauge?
Why does Kenneth continue to use the name Dan as if his true identity has not been discovered?
The Tager story seems the correct one.
For an interesting take on a story that enjoyed some currency till the Tager story came out, please see:
http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages6/ronhenry/real.htm
Look for the part on Kenneth Schaffer, who had been claiming to be the subect of “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” till the Tager story became public.
See, you’re all missing the real culprit here. The one really responsible for this whole thing.
Anyone happen to notice the mention of “Richard” in the song? Fighting ignorance, indeed. You’re all in on it! :dubious:
That refers to director Richard Linklater, who is quoted in the song.
I remember how happy I was when “What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?” came out. I was getting a little weary of Peter Buck’s extended love affair with the mandolin, and I wished he would just strap on a guitar again and play some rock!
So they got to you as well Snooooopy? Ooohh, we’re all doomed! :eek:
What do you mean, GOT to me? I was the first in line to volunteer! I want to be on the winning side, you know.
Resistance is futile.
Tager thought that Kenneth was Rather’s real name.
Did the 1994 song (of which I was aware) come out before or after the 1994 murder (of which I was not aware).
I bet the victim’s family don’t find that song funny at all. :eek:
I know it’s not specifically meant to be funny, but the proximity of the song release to the murder just makes me go “ouch!”
And here are the lyrics to a song called “Kenneth, What’s The Frequency” from the 1987 Game Theory album Lolita Nation.
So what? Well, consider that that album (and several other Game Theory and Loud Family albums) were produced by none other than Mitch Easter. I am fairly certain that R.E.M. were aware of Game Theory and Lolita Nation was considered their magnum opus, so you might get the impression that…oh, never mind.
That what? That R.E.M. wrote a song about the same incident? Because I just looked up to the lyrics to the Game Theory song and there’s nothing that could even be called a faint resemblance.
…no, the songs don’t resemble one another, heck, GT’s song isn’t even a song, it’s a brief album intro (Game Theory did a lot of between-song sounds)…but the title is a pretty random thing to name a song, and that there is a real connection between R.E.M. and Game Theory (Mitch Easter) and that it’s VERY possible that Stipe had heard or seen the album and R.E.M.s song came out 7 years later…could be coincidental, could be something else.
It’s very common for schizophrenics like Tager to hear voices in their head, voices that they want desperately to shut off. Some go so far as to cut off their own ears, in a vain attempt to make the voices stop (this has led some latter day neurologists to speculate that Vincent Van Gogh was schizopgrenic).
It sometimes seems to schizophrenics that the voices are coming from a television set or a radio. As a result, some of the more seriously disturbed schizophrenics will go to TV or radio stations to seek out and/or attack broadcasters they suspect are beaming the voices into their heads.
Dan Rather was lucky to escape from Tager’s attack more or less in one piece. That “Today” show stage hand that Tager later killed wasn’t so lucky.
A tragic episode, really. One that shouldn’t be laughed at, even by people who disliked Dan Rather. A sick, suffering, desperate man attacking another man is NOT funny.
No, but people laugh at things that are sudden or unexpected and bizarre. The whole episode was like something Ionesco would have written. Sometimes situations are both tragic and comical. I don’t know whether you’ll be successful in changing humanity’s perception of humor since the ancient Greeks with little more than stern moralizing, but good luck nonetheless.
Why don’t you come out and just say what that “something else” is? You seem to be insinuating something vaguely sinister which I simply just can’t see. All I see is that REM may have heard a song on an album by Game Theory and (DUM DUM DUM!) released an entirely different song with a similar title seven years later. Gasp!