Define Dan Rather Meaning

Take a damaging true story and preemptively leak it to a reporter with enough bogus details stirred in to discredit the reporter and the story itself.

See Dinosaur or fossil.

A "journalist" better known for sayings like:

"Let's hit these biscuits with a dab of gravy."

than actual news reporting.

A newsman with a vendetta that came close to tears on the night of November 2, 2004 when he had to announce that the guy he made up documents to smear ( President George W. Bush) had actually won the election while he (Dan Rather) had lost what little credibility he had left.

A news reader who can't distinguish news from partisan idealogy and innuendo.

A wistful looking man who throughout his life had to butter up to the Jewboys in charge of his network.
His coat of arms should read:
"I'd rather not"

Damn Blather knows damn well he is going to retire and so he's taking his best parting shot at Bush by doing a bogus story involving forged documents.

Dan,I'd rather not!

^from an old Saturday Night Live skit,lol

Dan Rather is a real newsman, part of a generation of trusted, introspective sources, along with Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw. But with Jennings dead, Brokaw retired, and Rather forced from CBS within a year of each other, news as we know it has ended. Rather is a real reporter, unlike Katie Couric, his replacement after Bob Schieffer (who is a real newsman as well) is taken from his interim role. Rather is well known for his reports on Kennedy's assassination, Nixon's impeachment, Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Suddam's tourture chambers.

Unfortunately, Rather will be remembered for his drawn out voice and one error in reporting, more than for all the good things he did. Like the news has never fucked up a little deatail in a story before?

Rather is also probably the only reporter to have a top 10 rock his written about him. REM's What's the Frequency, Kenneth, is about an incident in the 1980s in which a crazy guy beat up Rather because he thought the media was controling him mind.

Getting lied to, but finding out about it. Comes from the fact that Dan Rather lied to America, but got caught.