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Liberal: Rather quick to bash Jesse Jackson
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bias.”
Rather did not show
any favoritism toward
civil rights leaders, espe
cially Jesse Jackson.
During the 1993
Democratic National
Convention, Rather
said: “There have always
been two Jesse Jacksons.
There’s Jesse the radical,
who preaches rage and
black separatism. That
Jesse Jackson has always
angered whites. And
there’s Jesse the self-pro
moter, who preaches
desegregation and com
promise.
Jesse Jackson, a black
separatist? That wasn't
true in 1993 or in 2003
or at any other time.
By contrast, Rather
provided fawning cover
age of Ronald Reagan’s
death. On June 5, 2004,
he said on CBS Evening
News that Reagan “was
the great communicator,
yes. Bt he was also 2
master at communicat
ing greatness. He under
stood that, as he once
Eut it, ‘History 1s a rib
on always unturling,’
and managed to convey
his vision in terms of
both simple and poetic.
And so he was able to act
as a conduit to connect
us to who we had been
and who we could be.”
Reagan’s White House
image makers couldn’t
have been more effusive
in their praise.
The vretiting CBS
anchor created what has
become known as
Ratherisms, such as: “In
Southern states they beat
him like a_rented mule.”
And, “If a frog had side
Eockcrs‘ hed carry 2
andgun.” Beneath such
cornball is a biased jour
nalist, a self-admitted
bias tilted in favor of
those in power, not pro-
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In an appearance on
CBS’s “Late Show with
David Letterman”
(9/17/01), Rather, who
retired a year early
because he used fake
documents about Presi
dent Bush’s service in the
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National Guard, said:
“George Bush is presi
dent. He makes the deci
sions, and, you know, it’s
just one American,
wherever he wants me to
line up, just tell me
where. And he'll make
the call.”
Equally troubling was
a speech he gave at Harvard
University last July 25.
Rather said, “Look, when a
president of the United
States, any president,
Republican or Democrat,
says these are the facts,
there is a heavy preju
dice, including my own,
to give him the benefit of
any doubt, and for that |
do not apologize.”
Anyone who called
Dan Rather a liberal
owes all of us an apology.
George E. Curry is n}i,—
tor-in-chief of the NNPA
News Service and Black-
PressUSA.com. He
appears on National Pub
February 10, 2005
lic Radio (NPR) three
times a week as part of
“News and Notes with Fd
Gordon.” Curry’s weekly
radio commentary is syn
dicated by Capitol Radio
News Service (301/588-
1993). He can be reached
through his website,
georgecurry.com. ;
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