Although I didn’t watch him this time on principle, Dan Rather apparently had a good night of one-liners on election night 2004. Among them:
- “In southern states they beat him like a rented mule.”
- “We had a slight hitch in our giddy up, but we corrected that.”
- “We need Billy Crystal to Analyze This”
- The election is “closer than Lassie and Timmy”
Read the whole list. Rather should really consider stand-up comedy, as the “fake but accurate” style of journalism just didn’t work out for him.