It wasn't his use of forged documents to slander President Bush along with a lifetime of slanting the news leftward that angered conservatives; it was his support of such causes as civil rights, said Dan Rather with a straight face.
According to RatherBiased.com, Rather attended a CBS holiday press party where he encountered liberal Vanity Fair magazine writer Michael Wolff, who writes in his magazine's current issue that he sought to learn why the CBS anchorman is so unpopular with conservatives.
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Wrote Wolff: "Really ... how ... I mean ..." - I began trying to circle the elephant - "do you think it is that you've become such a ... I don't know ... " - I decided not to say doormat, or pustule, or piece of meat - "buzzword ... for the right wing?"
"'You tell me.' Rather stood like an old soldier, stiff, stuffed, painfully erect.
"One of our circle, another card-carrying member of the liberal media establishment, said, helpfully, 'Lots of people still hear the name Richard Nixon when you say Dan Rather.' I flashed on the old silent majority - and its remarkable, modern media ascendancy.
"'Civil rights,' said Rather. 'Vietnam. Watergate. These were the stories we told. We're now being blamed for them.'
"That we were back in the 60s was certainly pathetic. That we were blaming all our troubles on the great right-wing conspiracy was equally weak. Recalling all this was another way of saying that Rather, at 73, was not just a screw up, but misty with age," Wolff wrote.
And drowning in his liberal bias, he might have added.
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