Dan Rather To Obama: ‘Go Big Or Go Home’ With A Major Jobs Program
With bad economic news surrounding President Obama, Chris Matthews warns that if unemployment stays above 9% Obama will not be able to get re-elected. Dan Rather joined Matthews' Sunday show panel, agreed that unemployment is the biggest concern for Obama and gave the President advice that should be listened to right away....
Stephen Colbert Admonishes CNN’s Don Lemon For Ignoring Guest’s Vampire Fangs
When suburban Philadelphia resident Patrick Rodgers discovered that his bank had charged him for mortgage payments not agreed upon, he turned the tables, and "foreclosed on the foreclosers." Since it's the perfect cable news interest story, this story received a decent amount of national attention, though as Stephen Colbert pointed out last night, cable...
Dan Rather Warns Chris Matthews: Bachmann Is For Real, This Is No ‘Palin Coming From Nowhere’
Chris Matthews assembled a panel including Dan Rather and Rachel Maddow to discuss whether Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann should enter the presidential race to scoop up Mike Huckabee's voters in Iowa. Surprisingly, Rather spoke very highly of Bachmann and called her "very articulate" and someone who could be "dynamite" in...
Dan Rather Warns Chris Matthews: Bachmann Is For Real, This Is No ‘Palin Coming From Nowhere’
Chris Matthews assembled a panel including Dan Rather and Rachel Maddow to discuss whether Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann should enter the presidential race to scoop up Mike Huckabee's voters in Iowa. Surprisingly, Rather spoke very highly of Bachmann and called her "very articulate" and someone who could be "dynamite" in...
Dan Rather Writing Memoir On Presidents, 9/11, And His Departure From CBS
Onetime top TV news titan Dan Rather has something to say about his career, from the Kennedy assassination to his unceremonious exit from CBS. Keith Kelly writes in the New York Post the newsman's memoir will:
Fox News Senior VP Recalls Flying With Three Rival Anchors
On Monday, the New York Times ran a "Frequent Flier" column penned by Michael Clemente, Fox News's senior vice president for news. In the piece, Clemente reflects on his above-ground experiences—and recalls one particularly memorable plane ride with Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather.
Chris Matthews: Is Sarah Palin The New Richard Nixon?
Before you jump to panicked conclusions, Matthews is not comparing Sarah Palin to President Nixon. He is comparing her to former Vice President, defeated presidential candidate Richard Nixon who spent the intervening years between losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and his 1968 campaign relentlessly touring the world, denying his presidential ambitions,...
Rather Blames “Online & Cable Echo Chamber” For “Watermelon” Reaction
Dan Rather is responding today to the questionably-worded anecdote ("he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic") - and he's doing so in a decidedly un-140-character way.In a lengthy blog post on The Huffington Post, Rather explains why it's, at least in part, our collective...
Merry Mediaite! Friends and Fans Join Dan & Floyd Abrams To Toast Our Happy, Scrappy Website
Anyone who works in media these days — especially online — knows that it can be an all-consuming lifestyle, caught up in the immediacy of the 24-7 news cycle and very much given to being swept up by the wildly fluctuating highs and lows of the moment. That’s why it’s so nice to step back...
Dan Rather Uses “Obama,” “Articulate” And “Watermelons” In Same Anecdote