Dan Rather Just Went Viral Shredding Trumps Inauguration Speech

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Dan Rather, former CBS Evening News anchor, has released an elegant, tragic statement about the Donald Trump presidential inauguration that occurred today at noon. He sums up the collective anxiety that is gripping the majority of Americans as we enter into the great unknown. Rather elucidates the reasons why the American people are faced with so much uncertainty heading into a presidency, when normally the incoming president is transparent.

And so it begins. Of the nearly 20 inaugurations I can remember, there has never been one that felt like today. Not even close. Never mind the question of the small size of the crowds, or the boycott by dozens of lawmakers, or even the protest marches slated for tomorrow across the country. Those are plays upon the stage. What is truly unprecedented in my mind is the sheer magnitude of quickening heartbeats in millions of Americans, a majority of our country if the polls are to be believed, that face today buffeted within and without by the simmering ache of dread.

I have never seen my country on an inauguration day so divided, so anxious, so fearful, so uncertain of its course.
I have never seen a transition so divisive with cabinet picks so encumbered by serious questions of qualifications and ethics.
I have never seen the specter of a foreign foe cast such a dark shadow over the workings of our democracy.
I have never seen an incoming president so preoccupied with responding to the understandable vagaries of dissent and seemingly unwilling to contend with the full weight and responsibilities of the most powerful job in the world.
I have never seen such a tangled web of conflicting interests.

Despite the pageantry of unity on display at the Capitol today, there is a piercing sense that we are entering a chapter in our nation’s evolving story unlike one ever yet written. To be sure, there are millions of Donald Trump supporters who are euphoric with their candidate’s rise. Other Trump voters have expressed reservations, having preferred his bluster to his rival’s perceived shortcomings in the last election, but admitting more and more that they are not sure what kind of man they bestowed the keys to the presidency. The rest of America – the majority of voters – would not be – and indeed is not – hesitant in sharing its conclusions on the character and fitness of Donald Trump for the office he now holds.

Read more: http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/01/20/dan-rather-just-went-viral-shredding-trumps-inauguration-speech/

[liberal N proud]

1. I will ask again, where were these "journalists" for the last year and a half?

The media could have ended twump before as soon as he descended the golden escalator.

[tiredtoo]

4. the media is in it for the money

They care not who wins or loses as long as they can show a profit.

[we can do it]

11. Dan Rather has been speaking out all along.

[not fooled]

12. Most of the corpse madia was busy

Tearing down Hillary and bolstering dump

to make a "horse race"

for ratings


anti-American, pro-making $$$


sold us out

[liberal N proud]

13. Exactly

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. K&R nt

[burrowowl]

3. One of the few great ones left!

Dan you

[ffr]

5. When news organizations had journalistic integrity. Thank you Dan Rather!

[democrank]

6. Thank you, Dan Rather.

Eloquently stated

[pangaia]

7. Much too mild and"professional' sounding.

As truthful as it is.

[dalton99a]

9. Agreed

[smirkymonkey]

8. K&R

[wildeyed]

10. We are all screaming: WHERE ARE THE ALL THE GROWNUPS?!?

They are so obsessed with ideology and personal ambition that they are willing to let that manic do whatever he wants.

[yurbud]

15. Those who get their news solely from American broadcast and print media are at the mercy

of corporate profiteers and sycophants to money and celebrity.

[Hortensis]

14. Well, a national feeling of dread is a GOOD sign.

Not everyone's gone crazy, not even on the right. Dread and fear are appropriate. I don't believe in prayer, but let's all hope, pray, join an Indivisible action group, whatever, that we do not use our nuclear weapons on any people anywhere during Trump's time in office.