Dan Rather’s victimological salute to America and the world

The farewell statement of Dan Rather was bizarre, yet appropriate. He signed off, not in the manner of a newsman, but in the manner of a fallen leader, bloody but defiantly unbowed, urging “courage” to all the victims in the world (including the American people, “still nursing a broken heart for what happened here in 2001”), with whom he manfully expressed his solidarity. Jonah Goldberg quotes the goodby in full and comments on it in a way I agree with, including his mention of Rather’s Nixonian manner. (Goldberg’s articles can be readable, when he keeps his personality out of them.)

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 11, 2005 12:11 PM | Send