Shame! Re: (meteorobs) The Ballad of Dan Rather

[maxie]

This is one of the most pathetic and false things I've read in a long time.
Bill Smith (if there really is a Bill Smith), if you want to talk 
politics, I'm ready willing and able to educate you OFFLIST, but a Meter 
Observation list is no place for this ilk.

List owner.. is this a new person, recently signed on?

Thank you,
S. Maxwell




"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just 
so long as I'm the dictator." -- George W. Bush, December 18, 2000




Bill Smith wrote:

> *Subject:* Ballad of Dan Rather
>
> **BALLAD OF DAN RATHER***
>
> **(Sung to the tune from the Beverly Hillbillies)**
>
> **Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Dan,**
> **The documents were fake and he didn't give a damn;**
> **He put 'em on the air, an' he thought he'd done the job, **
> < STRONG>*But up from the web come a howlin' mob.*
>
> **Blogs, that is.**
> **Web logs.**
> **Checkin' facts.**
>
> **Well, the first thing you know ol' Dan's a-runnin' fast;**
> **Made a false report an' it bit him in the ass;**
> **He said 'dog-gonnit, I done thought I'd get away!'**
> **But it turned out to be his a-reckonin' day.**
>
> **Busted, that is.**
> **Red-faced.**
> **Mud in the eye.**
>
> **Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Dan and all his men;**
> **And they would like to shoot you folks for turnin' them all in;**
> **You're all invited back next week to watch the Evening News,**
> **And see which correspondent's picked to fill Dan's empty shoes.**
>
> **Y'all come back, now, hear?***
>
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