# Who really gives a fuck about Dan Rather? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416 "2005-03-07T19:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/1 "2005-03-07T19:52:45Z")
Maybe this should be in the Pit, maybe not. And I apologize if this is somewhere else already, I looked though and didn’t see anything, so here I am… But come on, “American Icon” or not (and I say not), who really can say their life will be affected for better or for worse because Dan Rather is going to be off the CBS Evening News? It’s not even the journalistic ehtical question, I think it’s just a matter of pure, simple apathy. The media is burying us with goodbye Dan stories because he’s one of them, and thus important to them. Outside of other journalists or columnists that wriote about journalism, do you know anyone that’s making water cooler talk about DAN FUCKING RATHER?!?!? Fuck Dan Rather, I’d rather watch Peter Jennings anyway… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/2 "2005-03-07T19:55:21Z")
Yeah, we’d all be better off if our newscasters were a bunch of insensitive, dispassionate boobs who didn’t give a rip about their colleagues. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/3 "2005-03-07T20:10:51Z")
Oh, and a little rule of thumb for ya–if you’re going to use cuss words in the thread title and the OP, the Pit is pretty much your only choice of forum. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Westphal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@James\_Westphal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Westphal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/4 "2005-03-07T20:16:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Who really gives a fuck about Dan Rather? You, apparently. Turn off the shiny box for a change. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/5 "2005-03-07T20:22:43Z")
Dan who? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/6 "2005-03-07T20:27:18Z")
What’s the frequecy, Kenneth? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/7 "2005-03-07T21:18:45Z")
As a fan of _Battlestar Galactica_, I give a frack about Dan Rather. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/8 "2005-03-07T21:25:38Z")
Courage ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/9 "2005-03-07T21:38:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe this should be in the Pit, maybe not. Yeah, I think maybe so. The tone set by the title certainly indicates Pit rather than Cafe Society, where we tend to be a little more polite. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/10 "2005-03-07T21:43:06Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Oh, and a little rule of thumb for ya–if you’re going to use cuss words in the thread title and the OP, the Pit is pretty much your only choice of forum. Unless we are talking about Deadwood. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/11 "2005-03-07T21:59:26Z")
Just for the record, I don’t give a fuck about Dan Rather. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/12 "2005-03-07T22:13:13Z")
I too could care less about Dan Rather. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/13 "2005-03-08T00:44:27Z")
Can I add all the other ‘celebrity’ stories that I don’t give a flying whasit for: Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson’s sister, and for all I know Santa Claus’ uncle. sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/14 "2005-03-08T05:11:37Z")
I just wanted to say that I read each and every line in this thread in my finest Dan Rather impersonation. "Today SDMB members heard the evening news read _without_ Dan Rather, leaving the community… …\*in shambles". - - Two personal friends might get this inside joke. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/15 "2005-03-08T05:15:48Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > I too could care less about Dan Rather. According to [this thread,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=305905) this means that you do, actually, care about Dan Rather. Good for you! Very brave of you to come into a thread like this and point that out. Way to take a hit for the team! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lodoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@Jeff\_Lodoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lodoen)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/16 "2005-03-08T05:25:11Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Yeah, we’d all be better off if our newscasters were a bunch of insensitive, dispassionate boobs who didn’t give a rip about their colleagues. :rolleyes: I think Rather would, uh, rather that some colleagues would just be quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/17 "2005-03-08T05:33:33Z")
So long, Dan. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/18 "2005-03-08T06:41:05Z")
Wasn’t it Rather who, upon interviewing the Dixie Chicks about their wealth (only to hear of the relative absense of such), brought to widespread recognition the rather biased deals (and the resultant related issues, such as extortive prices for CDs) that are the rule within the record industry? I can’t remember anything else he did at the moment, being, ah, _rather_ young relatively, but if I’m correct, I appreciate his investigation. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/19 "2005-03-08T07:14:11Z")
So, anyone want to take a pool on how long it’ll be before the right-wing nutjobs find another “biased” reporter to demonize? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416/20 "2005-03-08T07:26:45Z")
While not exactly a “right-wing nutjob” (I prefer to think of myself as a strong, noble, clear-headed and right-thinking conservative, thank you very much), I think the question is which of the many available candidates we will zero in on? Every network (and nearly all print media) save Fox is full of them. Rather was just the most obvious, obnoxious and long-lived. As an interesting aside, did you see where Playgirl magazine’s Editor-In-Chief" outed" herself…as a _Republican_! 😃 Here 'tis: [http://drudgereport.com/flash3pg.htm](http://drudgereport.com/flash3pg.htm) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-really-gives-a-fuck-about-dan-rather/293416.md?page=2)