Disgraced left-wing journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dan-rather" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Rather</a> was mocked online late this week after panicking over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> cutting some of its most extreme left-wing voices from the network.
&#8220;What is going on at CNN? It’s a serious question,&#8221; Rather tweeted. &#8220;There is a lot of speculation on directives and motives. What’s really going on? And is it being noticed by the audience?&#8221;
Rather&#8217;s tweet comes after CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network">parted</a> ways with hard-left White House Correspondent John Harwood this week following hyper-partisan remarks from Harwood, including a tweet in which Harwood claimed, &#8220;Biden&#8217;s assertion that Trump and extremist Republicans pose a threat to American democracy is, undeniably, true.&#8221;
Harwood’s departure comes weeks after former CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter recorded his last show and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-brian-stelter-out-at-cnn-after-network-cancels-his-show" rel="noopener">exited</a> the network. Stelter’s exit reportedly came at the behest of CNN chief Chris Licht, who took over the network in February after Jeff Zucker’s exit. Licht has reportedly been driving CNN toward adopting a more nonpartisan stance in its news coverage.
Rather&#8217;s tweet was mocked online, including by Red State writer Jeff Charles, who responded, &#8220;Seeing lefties melt down over CNN&#8217;s pivot away from being a full-on propaganda mill for the Democratic Party is delicious.&#8221;
&#8220;Dan Rather thinks CNN has an audience,&#8221; radio host Joe Pags Pagliarulo tweeted. &#8220;That&#8217;s cute, Dan.&#8221;
&#8220;Methinks Dan’s guest spots on said network have expired,&#8221; Fox News media analyst Joe Concha responded.
Rather&#8217;s tweet did garner some support online, including from leftist Ameshia Cross, who claimed that CNN was &#8220;dying a shameful death.&#8221;
&#8220;They used to be a valid source,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;I grew up on the network. Today I&#8217;m ashamed of what they&#8217;ve become. And this weird pivot Right attacking Biden&#8217;s speech is the nail in their coffin. With few exception they sound Fox lite w/o the Fox viewership.&#8221;
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CNN is dying a shameful death. They used to be a valid source. I grew up on the network. Today I&#39;m ashamed of what they&#39;ve become. And this weird pivot Right attacking Biden&#39;s speech is the nail in their coffin. With few exception they sound Fox lite w/o the Fox viewership <a href="https://t.co/wCrEmso2uy">https://t.co/wCrEmso2uy</a>
&mdash; Ameshia Cross (@AmeshiaCross) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmeshiaCross/status/1565883517250191360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Rather was fired from CBS News in 2004 over false claims that were made about then-President George W. Bush’s National Guard service during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; episode.
&#8220;The fact is that basic journalistic steps were not carried out in a manner consistent with accurate and fair reporting, leading to countless misstatements and omissions in the reporting by 60 Minutes Wednesday and CBS News,&#8221; a panel appointed by CBS News <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-te.to.cbs11jan11-story.html">said</a> in a scathing 224-page report about the episode.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dan-rather-mocks-lets-go-brandon-meme-cites-truth-social-media-bashes-him-with-his-own-record">Dan Rather Mocks ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Meme, Cites ‘Truth.’ Social Media Bashes Him With His Own Record.</a>

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Hollywood and political commentators took to Twitter on Wednesday to react to Rep. Liz Cheney&#8217;s (R-WY) loss Tuesday night in the state&#8217;s GOP congressional primary.
Stars and personalities like Rob Reiner, Patricia Arquette, Dan Rather and more suggested in their tweets that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-cheney">Cheney&#8217;s loss</a> to the candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, Harriet Hageman, signals trouble for Republican Party and the country.
&#8220;Liz Cheney&#8217;s overwhelming loss makes it abjectly clear,&#8221; Reiner&#8217;s message read. &#8220;The Republican Party has abandoned American Democracy in fealty to a Sociopathic Criminal.&#8221;
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Liz Cheney’s overwhelming loss makes it abjectly clear. The Republican Party has abandoned American Democracy in fealty to a Sociopathic Criminal.
&mdash; Rob Reiner (@robreiner) <a href="https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1559909137806692352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The fact that Liz Cheney got 35 percent of the vote should scare the [crap] out of Republicans who think Trump would have a chance in 2024,&#8221; Arquette tweeted to her millions of followers.
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The fact that Liz Cheney got 35 percent of the vote should scare the 💩 out of Republicans who think Trump would have a chance in 2024. He lost pop vote in 2016, lost general in 2020 and her numbers show he has eroded more of Republican base. He can’t win.
&mdash; Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) <a href="https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/1559744384970526720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He [Trump] lost pop vote in 2016, lost general in 2020 and her numbers show he has eroded more of Republican base,&#8221; the actress added. &#8220;He can&#8217;t win.&#8221;
Disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather tweeted that, &#8220;If Liz Cheney is defeated today, as expected, I would not frame it as her losing. It is a loss for Wyoming, the Republican Party, and the nation.&#8221;
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If Liz Cheney is defeated today, as expected, I would not frame it as her losing. It is a loss for Wyoming, the Republican Party, and the nation.
&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1559683900841988096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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And they weren&#8217;t the only ones. Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera called her loss proof &#8220;Trump rules the GOP.&#8221;
&#8220;Liz Cheney got rolled in Wyoming,&#8221; Rivera tweeted. &#8220;We knew it would be bad, it was worse. Trump rules the GOP. Worse, he&#8217;s convinced most Republicans to disbelieve the truth that he lost the election.&#8221;
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Liz Cheney got rolled in Wyoming. We knew it would be bad, it was worse. Trump rules the GOP. Worse, he’s convinced most Republicans to disbelieve the truth that he lost the election. Regardless of the political mugging she suffered yesterday, Cheney is a truth-telling hero.
&mdash; Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1559938517911871491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Regardless of the political mugging she suffered yesterday, Cheney is a truth-telling hero,&#8221; he added.
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Liz Cheney has guts, is an original and goes against the grain and MAGA kool aid drinking group think that’s a cancer in GOP leadership.
She should be commended no matter what happens today. 
If all you can be today is someone that bends the knee to MAGA &#8211; this party is a waste
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1559554928569376768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, Meghan McCain said that Cheney &#8220;should be commended no matter what happens today.&#8221;
Actor Alec Baldwin went so far as to label Cheney the &#8220;American Navalny,&#8221; referencing jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, calling her a &#8220;hero&#8221; in a video he shared on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVA22JuBuM/">Instagram</a> before the loss was officially declared.
&#8220;Who is the American Navalny,&#8221; Baldwin asked, before answering his own question. &#8220;Liz Cheney reminds me of Navalny.&#8221; He also said she did what she had to do because &#8220;morally&#8221; she risked &#8220;it all&#8221; career wise to &#8220;tell the truth.&#8221;
He captioned his post, &#8220;Liz Cheney is a bipartisan hero…&#8221;
However, not every star and political commentator felt the same.
Fox News&#8217; Brit Hume made a case that Cheney is not clearly understanding her loss, suggesting it wasn&#8217;t all about the former president.
&#8220;I wonder if things might have turned out differently for Liz Cheney if she&#8217;d used her seat on the 1/6 committee to insist on cross-examination of witnesses and a chance for the defense to present its side,&#8221; Hume tweeted to his million plus followers.
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I wonder if things might have turned out differently for Liz Cheney if she&#39;d used her seat on the 1/6 committee to insist on cross-examination of witnesses and a chance for the defense to present its side. Instead she led the charge for an utterly one-sided presentation.
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1559921042340122626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Instead she led the charge for an utterly one-sided presentation,&#8221; he added.
<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1559858424963366912">Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro tweeted</a> that the representative &#8220;fundamentally misunderstands&#8221; why people are &#8220;so passionately angry at her inside the GOP base.&#8221;
&#8220;She said last night that winning &#8216;would&#8217;ve required that I go along with President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. It would&#8217;ve required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic,'&#8221; Shapiro wrote. &#8220;That&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
&#8220;Winning simply would have required her not to act as a front person for a Democratic committee dedicated to lumping together all Republicans and conservatives with January 6 rioters, and suggesting that anyone who would consider voting Trump 2024 is an incipient fascist,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Did Glenn Youngkin go along with the idea that Trump won the 2020 election?&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Did he &#8216;go along with ongoing efforts&#8217; to undermine the republic? How about Dan Crenshaw in Texas? What they didn&#8217;t do is act as enthusiastic participants in a broader Democratic and media agenda.&#8221;
Actor Kevin Sorbo told his followers that, &#8220;Honestly, [Liz Cheney] and [Beto O&#8217;Rourke] 
should team up in 2024 so they can lose together and save voters the time.&#8221;
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Honestly, <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Liz_Cheney</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetoORourke</a> should team up in 2024 so they can lose together and save voters the time.
&mdash; Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1559958116082614274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Justified&#8221; star Nick Searcy took to Twitter and simply tweeted,&#8221;Bye, [Rep. Liz Cheney]. Hope that 36 million lasts you a while.&#8221;
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Bye, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLizCheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReplizCheney</a>. Hope that 36 million lasts you a while. <a href="https://t.co/K4DCFh5E3C">https://t.co/K4DCFh5E3C</a>
&mdash; Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL FILM &amp; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1559897617877835777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Liz Cheney just lost her Wyoming congressional seat by nearly 40 points and compared herself to Abraham Lincoln in her concession speech. She’s truly gone insane. <a href="https://t.co/T0DlPBsF2K">pic.twitter.com/T0DlPBsF2K</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1559928695669809152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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‘Abandoned American Democracy’: Hollywood And Political Commentators React To Cheney’s Loss

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On Wednesday night, former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who resigned after he infamously ran a hit piece on former President George W. Bush that used forged documents, tweeted a mocking attack on the anti-Biden meme, “Let’s Go Brandon,” triggering a flood of responses on social media reminding him of his own history.
Rather tweeted, “#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans ‘You can’t handle the truth.’”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsGoBrandonReallyMeans</a> “You can’t handle the truth.”
&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1476399879979110400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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That catalyzed responses like these:
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Speaking of not being able to handle the truth, aren&#39;t you the &quot;journalist&quot; who presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush&#39;s Vietnam War–era service in the National Guard, and was abruptly fired for it?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TruthHurts?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TruthHurts</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsGoBrandon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsGoBrandon</a> <a href="https://t.co/vnRoY2dNPx">https://t.co/vnRoY2dNPx</a>
&mdash; Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkolken/status/1476581056572792839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The man knows nothing of the truth <a href="https://t.co/d10xz4s2kl">https://t.co/d10xz4s2kl</a>
&mdash; Justin Barclay (@MrJustinBarclay) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrJustinBarclay/status/1476583689559621635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Didn’t you get fired for lying on television?
&mdash; Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1476546501870600199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Honey. <a href="https://t.co/phEob07pmX">https://t.co/phEob07pmX</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1476543165125603328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="http://archive.mrc.org/profiles/rather/crisis.asp">Media Research Center</a> gave a summary of the scandal that ended with Rather&#8217;s resignation:
<blockquote>On September 8, 2004, Dan Rather cited “exclusive information, including documents” to justify major CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes stories alleging that George W. Bush shirked his duties when he was in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. Within a few hours of those documents being posted on CBS News’ Web site, however, typography experts voiced skepticism that the documents had actually originated with their alleged author and Bush’s former commanding officer, the late Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian.
As the evidence mounted, Rather stubbornly clung to the idea that his story was bulletproof, and he derided critics as partisans and Internet rumormongers. When he “apologized” on September 20, Rather would not concede that the documents were forgeries, only that he and CBS could “no longer vouch for their authenticity.” On November 23, 2004, CBS announced that Rather would soon be leaving his job as anchor of the CBS Evening News. An investigative report released on January 10, 2005 faulted CBS’s rush to put the flawed story on the air and their “stubborn” defense in the days that followed, but oddly decided that they could not blame partisan bias.</blockquote>
In May 2001, Rather appeared on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, where he insisted former President Bill Clinton was an honest man, leading to this exchange:
<blockquote>Bill O’Reilly: “I want to ask you flat out, do you think President Clinton’s an honest man?” 
Dan Rather: “Yes, I think he’s an honest man.” 
O’Reilly: “Do you, really?” 
Rather: “I do.” 
O’Reilly: “Even though he lied to Jim Lehrer’s face about the Lewinsky case?” 
Rather: “Who among us has not lied about something?”</blockquote>
Rather later added, “I think at core he’s an honest person. I know that you have a different view. I know that you consider it sort of astonishing anybody would say so, but I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”
Appearing on the Feb. 7, 2002 Imus in the Morning radio show, Rather doubled down: “I think the fact that someone has told a lie, even a big lie or maybe several big lies over a lifetime, does not mean that they’re an inherently dishonest person&#8230;.I believe in redemption and that Bill Clinton – is he an honest person? I think he is an honest person. Did he lie? Yes, he lied, and on those occasions he was dishonest.”

Dan Rather Mocks ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Meme, Cites ‘Truth.’ Social Media Bashes Him With His Own Record.

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In the last 24 hours a former Clinton administration press secretary has equated people who say “Let’s Go, Brandon” with ISIS members, ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather has warned the phrase may lead to “violence,” and an NBC reporter has contacted the Secret Service to determine if novelty AR-15 parts bearing the anti-Biden phrase should be considered a threat to the president’s safety.
On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Fryer boasted of “exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden.” <a href="https://palmettostatearmory.com/">Palmetto State Armory</a>, a South Carolina-based firearms supplier, <a href="https://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-ar-15-letsgo-15-stripped-lower-receiver-pre-order-ships-in-approximately-10-12-weeks.html">offers customers</a> the lower part of an AR-15 engraved with the words “Let’s Go, Brandon” beneath a carving of what appears to be President Joe Biden with his arms outstretched above the checkered racing flag of NASCAR. Two other outlets have stocked AR-15 magazines with the phrase, one with a <a href="https://www.mysoutherntactical.com/PMAG-30-Round-ARM4-Lets-Go-Brandon_p_669.html">picture</a> of a mask-clad President Biden raising his index finger, the other bearing an <a href="https://culperprecision.com/product/lets-go-brandon-ar-15-magazine/">addled-looking caricature</a> of the president.
“Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden,” reported NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian, whom Fryer introduced.
“A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates threats against the president, declined to comment,” Dilanian added. He concluded his report by saying, “The fact that a code phrase for profaning the U.S. president is being used to market guns and ammunition suggests that the rage on display on January 6 has not subsided.”
On Twitter, he continued equating the chanting of “Let’s Go, Brandon” with dangerous threats on Twitter. “I called the Secret Service about this. They had no comment,” Dilanian <a href="https://twitter.com/kendilaniannbc/status/1455245963673677835">tweeted</a>. When Twitter users mocked Dilanian for calling the Secret Service over a meme, Dilanian dug in his heels. “I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider ‘F—Joe Biden’ emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president. Which I think is a reasonable question,” Delanian <a href="https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1455277689280008196">replied</a>.
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I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider “F—Joe Biden”emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president. Which I think is a reasonable question. <a href="https://t.co/HfqZfrE7rE">https://t.co/HfqZfrE7rE</a>
&mdash; Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1455277689280008196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The firearms industry has little love for Biden who, as a senator, drafted a ban on so-called “assault weapons,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-failed-attempt-to-ban-assault-weapons-11617285945">specifically including</a> the AR-15. The 1994 “crime bill” also banned the manufacture of new, “high-capacity” magazines, which contain more than 10 rounds.
Dilanian was joined by others who attempted to paint the use of a political slogan as a form of domestic terrorism.
“You know who also had coded statements like Brandon? ISIS, the Klan, Nazi&#8217;s…beginning to get the point?” tweeted Joe Lockhart, the former White House press secretary for President Bill Clinton and a current CNN political analyst. (Lockhart’s father, Raymond Lockhart, also served as director of NBC’s nightly news program, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”)
The broad-brush accusation drew instant condemnation. “You know who else drank water,” <a href="https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1455415687250423812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455415687250423812%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2021%2F11%2F02%2Fare-you-high-joe-lockhart-comparing-letsgobrandon-to-coded-messages-from-isis-nazis-and-the-klan-is-all-hilarious-fail%2F">responded</a> Jessica O’Donnell of The Blaze.
Dave Rubin playfully took Lockhart’s statement apart, <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1455533948327632903">saying</a>, “Brandon is here. We love him. You will not stop him.”
Twitter indicates that Lockhart subsequently deleted his tweet.
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Brandon is here. We love him. You will not stop him.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetsGoBrandon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetsGoBrandon</a> <a href="https://t.co/yUIzbtnwv4">https://t.co/yUIzbtnwv4</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1455533948327632903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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A third media figure, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather, joined in the fray by saying the “chant perfectly encapsulates the rot and unseriousness of the Republican [P]arty &#8211; like the smart-aleck in the classroom who adds nothing but juvenile taunts and distractions.” He <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1455155598790578186">wrote</a> in his Substack newsletter, “The unseemliness of this is so grotesque. … Immature vulgarity, fueled by bigotry, misogyny, sanctimony, privilege, unseriousness, flippancy, and ignorance, is what is animating the former president, his base, and thus by extension the entire Republican party over which he rules.”
“This is more than just words,” Rather wrote. “Hateful speech has a way of becoming violent action.”
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For those who may have missed it, my thoughts on &quot;Let&#39;s go Brandon&quot;&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/PIzpgsqmYT">https://t.co/PIzpgsqmYT</a>
&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1455155598790578186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Their actions continue days of focused media condemnation of the phrase, which stands for “F*** Joe Biden,” which often bleeds over into a hateful caricature of the many people who have said it at sporting events and other venues.
CNN analyst Asha Rangappa compared the phrase to someone saying, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/southwest-airlines-pilot-says-lets-go-brandon-cnn-analyst-likens-remark-to-long-live-isis">Long Live ISIS</a>.” The Washington Post said the phrase — which has been chanted at sporting events and mass rallies of all kinds — proves President Biden has had to endure “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-anti-biden-criticism-really-far-more-vulgar-and-widespread-than-any-other-president">far more vulgar and widespread</a>” criticism than any other recent president.
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But Ben Shapiro said the legacy media’s paroxysms over the phrase had another explanation.
“The media panic over ‘Let&#8217;s Go, Brandon!’ underscores a simple fact: Biden&#8217;s popularity may be the only thing standing between Democrats and ruin,” Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1455167409887846404">wrote</a>. “Their agenda is unpopular. Waiting in the wings is an unpopular VP. If people really dislike Biden, they&#8217;ve got serious problems.”
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The media panic over &quot;Let&#39;s Go, Brandon!&quot; underscores a simple fact: Biden&#39;s popularity may be the only thing standing between Democrats and ruin. Their agenda is unpopular. Waiting in the wings is an unpopular VP. If people really dislike Biden, they&#39;ve got serious problems.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1455167409887846404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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In what seems like an article written by the satirical website The Babylon Bee, the University of Texas-Austin’s Moody College of Communications (MCC) has announced a journalism award named after disgraced news anchor Dan Rather.
Rather famously “retired” after reporting on unverified documents purporting to show that President George W. Bush received preferential treatment and served poorly during his time in the Air National Guard. Rather presented the documents as authentic and defended them even as other media outlets noted issues with the memos. The phrase “fake but accurate” was born from this scandal.
Despite this, Rather has enjoyed a pretty decent comeback in the past decade, routinely being brought on as a journalism expert for left-leaning networks. He is also a member of the MCC’s advisory board. In Rather’s <a href="https://moody.utexas.edu/alumni/advisory-council/dan-rather">biography</a> on its website, the MCC completely ignores the scandal, instead discussing his career before and after it. Bush is only mentioned once in the biography, among a list of presidents that Rather had interviewed.
Now the MCC is naming a journalism award after the company Rather founded in 2006 – two years after the scandal. The company is called News and Guts, and the MCC is calling its new award the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts.
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We are introducing the <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanRather</a> Medals for News and Guts to recognize collegiate and professional journalists who overcome obstacles like stonewalling and harassment to speak truth to power.
Learn more about the medals. <a href="https://t.co/rSpPfuBimI">https://t.co/rSpPfuBimI</a> <a href="https://t.co/SElD0EYvJg">pic.twitter.com/SElD0EYvJg</a>
— TEXAS Moody (@UTexasMoody) <a href="https://twitter.com/UTexasMoody/status/1339238883377225728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This is the <a href="https://danrathermedals.com/">description</a> of the award on the MCC website:
<blockquote>The Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts honor the process of journalism as much as the end product. They will be awarded to professional and collegiate journalists who go the extra yard — overcoming obstacles like stonewalling and harassment — to get the story that tells truth to power.
The Medals are named for Dan Rather, the legendary reporter and anchor who went far afield from his Texan roots but never forgot his humble beginnings. He has been an ardent supporter of the School of Journalism and Media, inspiring and advocating for our majors. He is a permanent member of the Moody College of Communication’s Advisory Council, where he has been instrumental in its extraordinary development. The School and the College sponsor the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts to further his goal of supporting and defending bravery and excellence in journalism in the face of overwhelming odds. While journalism and journalists have long been under constant fire from the powerful, recognizing those who show “News and Guts” has never been more important than it is today.</blockquote>
As Rather once said, &#8220;News organizations and teams within those organizations have to have the guts and the backbone to dig into stories that people in power don’t want the public to know.” These medals in his name, to be presented to professional and college journalists, honor that effort.
The award provides $5,000 to each recipient and includes a prize for professional and student journalists.

Not The Babylon Bee: University Of Texas Announces Journalism Award Named After Dan Rather

Journalism

Democratic nominee Joe Biden, left-leaning activists, and sympathetic media figures are now pressing the idea that Republicans filling vacancies on the federal court and confirming conservative judges constitutes &#8220;court packing,&#8221; despite such actions having nothing to do with actually &#8220;packing&#8221; the Supreme Court.
After dodging questions on whether he supports adding seats to the Supreme Court in order to counteract conservative influence, especially if judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed in the next several weeks, Biden accused Republicans of &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; behavior and &#8220;packing&#8221; the court themselves.
&#8220;The only court packing that’s going on right now is going on with Republicans,&#8221; Biden insisted.
Court-packing, of course, has a very specific definition. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-radical-left-democrats-pushing-biden-to-pack-the-supreme-court">The Daily Wire noted Sunday</a>, the practice, which originated with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, involves appointing &#8220;up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more.&#8221;
&#8220;The U.S. Constitution set up America’s high court but did not establish how many justices should serve, leaving that up to Congress,&#8221; the Daily Wire&#8217;s Joseph Curl noted. &#8220;The Judiciary Act of 1789 put the number at six; that number rose to seven in 1807 and to nine in 1837. The number rose to 10 in 1863, then dropped back down to seven in 1866. In 1869, Congress raised the number of justices to nine, where it has stood ever since.&#8221;
But Democrats are now pressing the line that confirming judges to open seats &#8212; particularly conservative judges &#8212; constitutes &#8220;court packing,&#8221; and the memo has gone out not only to competing politicos but also to left-leaning activists and sympathetic media figures.
Sam Berger, the vice president of the far-left Center for American Progress, tried to establish &#8220;conservative court packing&#8221; with a chart comparing how many judges former President Barack Obama appointed in comparison to how many President Donald Trump confirmed with the aid of a friendly Senate led by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
&#8220;Conservative court packing in one chart,&#8221; Berger claimed. &#8220;Conservatives’ stealth court-packing plan[.] Step 1: Steal seats by blocking confirmation of judges until WH and Senate are under conservative control. Step 2: Change the rules to appoint the most partisan conservative judges at breakneck speed.&#8221;
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Conservative court packing in one chart. <a href="https://t.co/MvnM9S2xgP">pic.twitter.com/MvnM9S2xgP</a>
&mdash; Sam Berger (@SamBerger_DC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SamBerger_DC/status/1315041361847103489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Republican Senate, of course, refused to confirm judges appointed by a political rival, Obama. When Republicans regained control of the White House, the Senate confirmation process moved swiftly for those seats vacated during Obama&#8217;s second term. That is, after all, how the two party process works.
Retired Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) made the process easier, deciding early on in Obama&#8217;s tenure that the Senate should do away with the &#8220;supermajority&#8221; required to confirm judges, clearing the way for Republicans to confirm hundreds of appointees later on.
Former newsman Dan Rather tried to weigh in himself, attacking Republicans for packing the courts by refusing to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016.
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Can we at least recognize that “Court Packing” at all levels of the judiciary has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland.
&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1315098585470386177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s still, of course, not &#8220;court packing.&#8221; Garland did not receive a hearing, paving the way for Trump to appoint his own justice immediately upon taking office, but to a vacant &#8212; not additional &#8212; Supreme Court seat.
The Washington Post&#8217;s Ruth Marcus went one step further, suggesting that not only was Trump prohibited from filling the seat left empty by Justice Antonin Scalia&#8217;s untimely death but that Trump was not &#8220;entitled&#8221; to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Anthony Kennedy&#8217;s retirement.
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Not entitled to fill?! <a href="https://t.co/s4HawFcOoT">pic.twitter.com/s4HawFcOoT</a>
&mdash; Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjscalia/status/1315267154917416960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Again, both seats were vacant, not added to the Supreme Court, but the purpose appears to be to muddy the definition of &#8220;court packing&#8221; for a public that is not perfectly educated on American civics.
President Donald Trump fired back at Democrats Sunday, accusing the &#8220;far-left&#8221; of holding Biden hostage to the idea of packing the Supreme Court with additional members if Barrett is confirmed. Her Senate confirmation hearings begin on Monday.

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Biden, Dems Accuse GOP Of ‘Court-Packing’ For Filling Vacancies, Confirming Conservative Judges

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Dan Rather, the former journalist who resigned from CBS for pushing a false news story critical of President George W. Bush&#8217;s service in the National Guard, has called upon the mainstream media to report their interpretation of President Trump&#8217;s beliefs and as not what he actually says.
According to <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/08/06/rather-demands-press-psychoanalyze-trump-instead-report-his-words">Newsbusters</a>, Rather appeared on CNN Monday night, where he told host Don Lemon that the press needs to start psychoanalyzing what the president says. The conversation stemmed from a tweet that Rather shared earlier in the day.
&#8220;To my fellow members of the press, I suggest we refrain from quoting the president&#8217;s words from prepared speeches into headlines and tweets without context. He sometimes says the right thing. The real questions are what he does and what he really believes,&#8221; tweeted Rather.
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So if President Trump were to stand up on national television to condemn white supremacy, as he did on Monday, the media should psychoanalyze that instead of merely report what he said. When pressed about this opinion by Don Lemon, Rather was quite content in his interpretation of President Trump&#8217;s beliefs.
&#8220;What does he [Trump] really believe?&#8221; asked Lemon.
&#8220;Fear conquers,&#8221; Rather replied.
Rather then recalled his days of covering the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s, and how he framed it as a matter of right and wrong:
<blockquote>This moment in history reminds me a great deal of when I was covering the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the early 1960s. It was clearly definitively right and wrong. That was the truth of the situation. Then and now it&#8217;s the job of journalists not to try to hide or obscure but to speak the truth, and that&#8217;s where we are now. People say, well, I&#8217;m not sure President Trump is racist, but racist is as racist does.
Any time he tries to speak about hope or compassion, it&#8217;s about as authentic as a Times Square Rolex.</blockquote>
Lemon said that he took issue with just flatly calling President Trump a &#8220;racist,&#8221; but concluded that evidence leads one to say that.
&#8220;It did not come lightly or easily for me to say, &#8216;The President of the United States is a racist,'&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;[B]ut in journalism, journalists work with facts and with evidence. And all one has to do is look at the evidence.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, exactly. It’s speaking truth!&#8221; Rather replied.
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Don Lemon, of course, has taken his condemnations of President Trump to new heights this election cycle, referring to him as a &#8220;racist&#8221; during the Democratic Party presidential debates and even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48607/watch-cnns-don-lemon-compares-trump-hitler-hank-berrien">comparing him to Hitler</a> on his own program.
&#8220;But think about the despicable people we’ve had in history,&#8221; Lemon said in June. &#8220;Now I’m going to use an extreme example. Think about Hitler. Think about any of those people. Would you say that that person is allowed — let’s put it this way — if you could look back on in history would you say, &#8216;well, I’m so glad that that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate and propaganda and lies&#8217;? Or would you say it probably wasn’t the right thing to do to spread that because you knew in the moment that that was a bad person. And they were doing bad things. Not only were they hurting people. They were killing people. &#8230;&#8221;

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Dan Rather To The MSM: Report What Trump ‘Believes,’ Not What He Says

Don Lemon

Dan Rather was once the anchor of the evening CBS News broadcast. He got the job in 1981, filling the very large shoes left by the avuncular Walter Cronkite.
He did everything to embiggen himself, but in the end, he crashed and burned for a heavy partisanship that blinded him.
In a nutshell, here&#8217;s what happened: Trying to derail George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency and his re-election bid &#8212; and searching for a Watergate-sized blockbuster &#8212; Rather aired a completely false story about Bush&#8217;s time in the Texas Air National Guard. He was fired and left journalism in disgrace.
The 86-year-old has sought to reframe himself ever since. Mostly, he&#8217;s just parroted the Democratic talking points and toed the liberal line.
So it is hilarious that The King of Fake News is now calling out President Trump for complaining about fake news.
&#8220;Whenever I see President Trump rail against &#8216;Fake News&#8217; or call us the &#8216;enemy of the people&#8217; I think &#8216;you can&#8217;t handle the truth.&#8217; You may not like it, but the press is protected by the Constitution (you know that document you swore to preserve, protect, and defend?),&#8221; Rather wrote Saturday on Twitter.
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Whenever I see President Trump rail against &#8220;Fake News&#8221; or call us the &#8220;enemy of the people&#8221; I think &#8220;you can&#8217;t handle the truth.&#8221; You may not like it, but the press is protected by the Constitution (you know that document you swore to preserve, protect, and defend?)
&#8212; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1026117896060039168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That got everyone on Twitter stirred up, and actor James Woods hit the former anchor right between the eyes with his succinct tweet.
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Do you see any irony in the fact you were fired for promoting a forged document to alter a presidential election? Your sad story will be a cautionary tale taught in journalism schools forever. You are the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GodfatherOfFakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GodfatherOfFakeNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/T8vPhpa6b0">https://t.co/T8vPhpa6b0</a>
&#8212; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1026332806346153984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Others fired out some zingers, too.
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanRather</a> when you lament over this do u also reminisce over the time you got fired by CBS for lying about a forged document in your attempt to sway a US Presidential election? &#8220;Those were the days!&#8221;
&#8212; Lee Kennedy (@LMK1Leeroy) <a href="https://twitter.com/LMK1Leeroy/status/1026484414983938048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s rich! You, sir, ushered in the modern era of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FakeNews</a> with your fake reporting of faked documents designed to derail the candidacy of Dub&#8217;ya.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is defending the Constitution by exposing elements within your &#8220;profession&#8221; hellbent on subverting it.
&#8212; Deplorable Gingerbot (@Reagan_Girl) <a href="https://twitter.com/Reagan_Girl/status/1026480357586100226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Derick_Fabert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Derick_Fabert</a> you liked this???? Isn&#8217;t <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanRather</a> the guy that lost his career over the fake news he generated with a proven FAKE letter supposedly about George W. Bush? Dan Rather is the grandfather of Fake News!
&#8212; Michael Brown (@MBHeyworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/MBHeyworth/status/1026454416315113472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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King Of Fake News Dan Rather Blasts Trump For Complaining About Fake News

James Woods

Interviewed by CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon, who claimed President Trump has lied over 2,000 times since he took office, former CBS anchor Dan Rather <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/399355-dan-rather-trump-criticism-of-media-is-straight-out-of-orwell">opined</a> that President Trump&#8217;s statements about the media and his attacks on them are &#8220;straight out of Orwell.&#8221;
Rather started by huffing, &#8220;Truth is the currency of democracy.&#8221;
That statement certainly rang hollow, since Rather was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/dan-rather-fake-news/">fired by CBS</a> after Rather&#8217;s team, in collusion with John Kerry&#8217;s campaign, aired unverified documents in 2004 about George W. Bush&#8217;s National Guard service.
Rather called Trump &#8220;authoritarian,&#8221; saying Trump wants Americans to believe that &#8220;the one and only truth comes from him.&#8221; When Lemon mentioned Trump stating, &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe what you see or what you hear, that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Rather responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s straight out of Orwell &#8230; Orwell, what he wrote, it&#8217;s practically a shooting script for Donald Trump. &#8230; There is a method to this, and the method is to convince people that the only truth is the truth that comes from me, the ultimate power &#8230; As several people have said before me, he is not just attacking the truth, he wants to annihilate the truth. He wants to move us completely into the post-truth political era in which there&#8217;s no such thing as objective facts. He is the only fact.&#8221;
Rather claimed there &#8220;has been some desperation&#8221; in Trump&#8217;s recent attacks, adding, &#8220;And as he gets more desperate he takes bigger risks in telling bigger lies or more often telling lies. And telling people, &#8216;Look, don&#8217;t believe what you read or see anywhere else, just come to me. I have the ultimate truth, I am the way,&#8217;&#8221;
What is ironic about Rather&#8217;s remark is that in Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;1984,&#8221; Big Brother uses the media to control the masses. That is far more similar to the Barack Obama years, when the media acted like lapdogs for Obama. Trump targeting the media is precisely the opposite of 1984.
Yet Rather describes Trump&#8217;s actions as Orwellian . . . 
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Dan Rather: Trump’s Attacks On Media ‘Straight Out Of Orwell’

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Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather tried to attack President Donald Trump at the start of the week and ended up giving him a possible campaign slogan to use, calling him &#8220;mean as a wolverine.&#8221;
Appearing on &#8220;CNN Tonight&#8221; with host Don Lemon, Rather weighed in on the current state of political polarization in the United States.
After saying that he had never seen anything like Trump, Rather said, &#8220;President Trump gives every indication by what he says and what he does and what he doesn&#8217;t do, that he&#8217;s mean as a wolverine, and we&#8217;ve never had a president who had that reputation.&#8221;
Rather&#8217;s comment was taken as a positive by Trump supporters who thought it would make a cool campaign slogan.
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I think <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> would endorse the slogan. &#8220;As mean as a wolverine&#8221;! Has a nice ring to it actually. We should thank Rather for the terrific campaign slogan.
&#8212; Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1011824116502917121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Dan Rather said President Trump is &#8220;Mean as a Wolverine&#8221;. Yes sir he is. We didn&#8217;t vote to put another sissy in the White House who doesn&#8217;t have a spine to stand up for America.
We voted for an America First President that is tough, fights back and plays the media like a fiddle!
&#8212; Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamVTV/status/1011830454213750789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Dan Rather on Trump: &#8220;He&#8217;s mean as a wolverine.&#8221;
Don&#8217;t these guys realize they just make <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> look more badass when they say things like this? I mean do you want to vote for a negotiator that&#8217;s &#8220;mean as a wolverine&#8221; or &#8220;meek as a mouse&#8221;? <a href="https://t.co/dNHg8w7ne5">pic.twitter.com/dNHg8w7ne5</a>
&#8212; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1011830851363979264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Dan Rather Goes To Smack Trump, Ends Up Giving Him Possible Campaign Slogan

Trump Administration

Everyone&#8217;s got an opinion on President Trump uninviting the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House.
Some who criticize the move make <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31449/trump-wrong-disinvite-eagles-hes-even-more-wrong-ben-shapiro">rational arguments</a>, while others are just . . . out there.
Like Dan Rather. The disgraced former newsman thinks Trump&#8217;s decision is &#8220;akin to McCarthyism.&#8221; Oh, and Puerto Rico! Plus, global warming!
In a weird post on Twitter, Rather covered a lot of topics. &#8220;Trump disinvites Eagles from White House &#8211; while millions of Americans hurt. Puerto Rico suffers. Allies fret. The planet warms. He uses our National Anthem to sow disunity in what&#8217;s supposed to be the UNITED States of America. I think history will mark it as akin to McCarthyism,&#8221; Rather wrote late Monday.
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Trump disinvites Eagles from White House &#8211; while millions of Americans hurt. Puerto Rico suffers. Allies fret. The planet warms. He uses our National Anthem to sow disunity in what&#8217;s supposed to be the UNITED States of America. I think history will mark it as akin to McCarthyism.
&#8212; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1003806492904943617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So, just to be clear, Trump deciding to uninvite the Eagles (in a supreme diss, fewer than 10 players were planning to show up), is comparable to McCarthyism, when Sen. Joe McCarthy persecuted suspected communists in America, leading to blacklists and ending as a very dark blot on the nation&#8217;s history.
Uh, yeah, OK.
For the record, here&#8217;s what Trump said:
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The Philadelphia Eagles are unable to come to the White House with their full team to be celebrated tomorrow. They disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country. The Eagles wanted to send a smaller delegation, but the 1,000 fans planning to attend the event deserve better. These fans are still invited to the White House to be part of a different type of ceremony&#8212;one that will honor our great country, pay tribute to the heroes who fight to protect it, and loudly and proudly play the National Anthem. I will be there at 3:00 p.m. with the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Chorus to celebrate America.
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Dan Rather On Trump Uninviting Eagles: ‘Akin To McCarthyism’

Disgraced CBS anchor Dan Rather took to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theDanRather/posts/10160239588295716?comment_id=495711600844713&amp;notif_id=1522718256900654&amp;notif_t=feed_comment">Facebook</a> to whine about the recent so-called controversy surrounding a video of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28943/media-go-nuts-after-sinclair-local-hosts-all-read-ben-shapiro">Sinclair Broadcast</a> reporters reading a synchronized script asking viewers to hold them accountable in the era of fake news. 
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear, news anchors looking into [the] camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, a script meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn&#8217;t journalism. It&#8217;s propaganda. It&#8217;s Orwellian. And it is on a slippery slope towards some of history&#8217;s most destructive forces. These are the means by which despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses,&#8221; Rather wrote.
Rather connects the video to President Donald Trump, citing that the owners of Sinclair are Republicans who support the White House administration. 
&#8220;To those who say this rhetoric is hyperbolic, I submit that attacking the press as honest brokers of information has been one of the constants of this Administration and all those who normalize it,&#8221; Rather vigorously opined. &#8220;But this is not normal. This is not how the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution, that beloved First Amendment, is supposed to operate,&#8221; he said.
Dan Rather&#8217;s indignation is ironic. He was forced out of his anchoring job at CBS &#8220;Evening News&#8221; in 2004, when he and his producer Mary Mapes ran a false story concerning former President George W. Bush&#8217;s Texas Air National Guard service record. 
He currently hosts the &#8220;The News With Dan Rather&#8221; on the far left media network The Young Turks. 
H/T <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/04/02/get-popcorn-rather-loses-it-over-sinclair-promising-be">Newsbusters</a>
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