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   From: hpgoldfinger@N0SPAM.C0M   
      
   Leftist Dan Rather’s Days Are Numbered   
      
      
   He’s 72 years old, his nightly newscast has been stuck in last place,   
   rumors are flying that he’s on the way out, and his blatant leftist   
   bias is increasingly under attack. But Dan Rather is fighting to keep   
   his job.   
      
   "Rather's newscast is not just third, but a distant third," the New   
   York Times reported today. The week of Nov. 17, for example, his show   
   on CBS drew an average of 8.1 million viewers a night, compared to 11   
   million for NBC's Tom Brokaw and 10.5 million for ABC's Peter   
   Jennings.   
      
      
   Rather, eight years older than Walter Cronkite was when he retired and   
   nine years older than Brokaw, knows that the phone call he has   
   nightmares about, the one telling him it’s time to move on, "could   
   well come next year, several people inside the network" told the   
   Times. "In the meantime, Rather continues to work tirelessly to stave   
   off the inevitable changing of the guard among the network news   
   anchors."   
      
   Staving it off includes barnstorming around the country trying to buck   
   up his show’s ratings and, the Times suggests, "campaigning just to   
   anchor another day."   
      
   Andrew Heyward, the president of CBS News, will decide when this   
   graying head will roll. "I have no illusions," Rather said. "The   
   second he thinks there's somebody who can do it better, I'll be out of   
   there, and I ought to be."   
      
   --   
   Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They   
   are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,   
   selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.   
      
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