Gunga Dan In Meltdown Mode

I'll always have a soft spot for Dan Rather since he was the subject of the very first post on this blog back on September 15, 2004 right in the heart of the RatherGate scandal. It appears that the 75 year old Rather is now descending into the twilight of his useful consciousness as evidenced by this review at Captain's Quarters of his appearance on Larry King:

Dan Rather appeared on Larry King Live tonight, and the most charitable description one can give Rather is incoherent. He could barely complete a sentence, and when he could, he sputtered about grand conspiracies among "Big Corporations" to undermine independent journalism. Declaring that "this is the right fight at the right time," he couldn't explain why he told Larry King that he and CBS made a mistake in running the story, only eight months after the collapse of the CBS story.

It's almost breathtaking in its excruciating wonder. He says that he's the only man who bring out the truth about what happened at CBS, when he could stammer out a coherent thought at all. Bear in mind that the truth-seeking Rather still thinks that his source (Bill Burkett) has never been impeached, that the type-set memos still haven't been proven impossible to produce on the Texas Air National Guard's typewriters of the day, that Rather ignores that Burkett now no longer claims that he delivered the originals to CBS but retyped copies from a mysterious Lucy Ramirez, and that the memos themselves had numerous context and formatting errors. If the truth bit Dan Rather on any of his extremities, he still wouldn't recognize it.

And that's just the beginning. It gets worse from there. Read the rest of it here.

UPDATE - A little turnabout from Scrappleface: Bloggers Question Authenticity of Rather Lawsuit