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To: Mark_H who wrote (7863)5/19/2004 12:26:07 PM
From: MrLucky  Respond to of 90947
 
US media cowed by patriotic fever, says CBS star

Network news veteran admits national mood caused him to shrink from tough questions on war in Afghanistan

Matthew Engel in Washington
Friday May 17, 2002
The Guardian

Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said last night that "patriotism run amok" was in danger of trampling the freedom of American journalists to ask tough questions. And he admitted that he had shrunk from taking on the Bush administration over the war on terrorism.


Here is one example of the "clear-headed" thinking of Dan Rather who has never stopped from being political against the Republican Party. He is in a neck-to-neck race with the ABC Jennings for stupid comments and questions.