Jonah, my favorite Rather quote was from CNN a couple of years back. Larry King growled at him: “Afghanistan tough?”

“Yes, and Vietnam. But I never have any complaints,” replied Dan. “Danger is my business.“

Or at least it was until Karl Rove’s enforcers in the CBS corner office leaned on Dan to read out his apology and Danger Man rolled over like a cheap typewriter ribbon falling off the desk in the Texas National Guard typing pool.

As to your correspondent re Rush et al, the day Ann Coulter is anchoring the CBS Evening News he’ll have a point. Granted the nation is bitterly riven by partisan rancor, it’s a tragedy that conservatives and liberals cannot even come together to hoot and jeer at as magnificently pompous a blowhard laughingstock as Dan Rather.