There’s been a Dan Rather sighting, last night at UC
Berkeley. Perhaps he was hoping for an exclusive interview with
Mario Savio. The sympathetic writeup to which I’ve linked probably
tells less than it could, but Dan clearly has the making of our
next Alger Hiss (“Rather dodged Schell’s questions about what
exactly went down with the Bush’s National Guard service story or
whether he believes the story is fully accurate…”). On the other
hand, only someone as screwy as Dan could hide behind corporate
fear of controversy as the reason why he was clueless regarding the
power of blogs. Best of all, he considers himself “independent,”
not liberal. “My best work is still ahead of me,” he warned.