Posted by
theoilpatchplug on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:17:54 AM
It was 1961. A young TV reporter had gotten off the bus from Stephen F. Austin College for the bright lights and adequate barbeque of Houston a number of months before. Dan "Courage" Rather chained himself to the Flagship Hotel in Galveston while Hurricane Carla blew through. The storm must have sucked all the sense out of Dan's head as well a generations of would be so called journalist.
Grainy 8 MM black and white film of Dan blowing in the wind and the assignation of President Kennedy propelled the local reporter to the network. Everything in the news business and the nation has been steadily declining as lines of Dan Rather-would be airheads aspire to the greatness of news making rather than reporting.
Every time you see a TV type blowing down the beach during the storm of the century of the week, blame Dan Rather. Know on a September day in 1961 America sucked a little more and a long decline of truth began to erode faster.
The latest story line is (1) global warming caused this storm to be much worse than it would have been without men (2) George Bush will screw up all the lives of the people that got wet and(3) where's my FEMA debit card.
A little wind , a little rain, man we dodged a bb!