Rachel Maddow with Dan Rather: Paul Ryan is "Toxic" for the Ticket
aired earlier this week:
"I've been covering politics since way before Tim Tebow was born," Dan Rather, the disgraced former anchor for CBS' "Evening News" said on the Monday night broadcast of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" program. "But these things unfold as time goes on. And while right now Ryan looks like he is toxic for the ticket, it could be as we get deeper in the campaign, that this intelligent man, he is intelligent and serious man, will show something that people do not now see."
"In the early going, in the early going, Ryan damages the ticket because rightly or wrongly, he's perceived as someone out to kill Medicare and Medicaid, and for that matter, doesn't feel all that good about Social Security," Rather said. "Now, this is toxic in Florida. I'm not saying Romney will lose Florida. I'm saying that as of today, he has less chance of carrying it than he had before."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/13/dan_rather_paul_ryan_is_toxic_for_the_ticket.html (little over 5 minutes.)
Concise observations from an *old school* journalist. Not many of those left, imo - But (as he said) *these things unfold...* BTW, I've read where Rather tends to get a bum rap sometimes on DU - not sure I completely understand why?
Anyway - FYI: The link to his show: http://www.axs.tv/programs/danrather/
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I'll be darned if I can find it now! Initially I did a search and one recent post came up kind of bashing him and others chimed in reiterating the point - something about corporate stuff? Can't find it now. I thought well, maybe there is something about him that I was not aware of? But judging by this interview with Maddow, I always thought of him to be a real stand-up guy and don't quite understand the skirmish he had with CBS?
IMO, he is right up there with Moyers and Helen as far as one of the few remaining living journalists who have been in the business/political trenches long enough to give a well respected, long-term viewpoint about how all this political stuff really goes down based upon decades of experience...
