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Dan Rather on the Daily Show

Seeded on Tue Dec 8, 2009 5:08 PM EST
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Dan Rather on the Daily Show points out and firmly believes that a lot of the "reporting" that has been going on in the media about Afghanistan is frankly wrong.

That's not hard to believe since the media seems to believe they really know what's going on, while not having been there or even involved in anyway.

He indicates the "softpower" strategy really has legs with the military. Who firmly believe it can and will work. I have to say they are much more confident than I am.

Stewart is great because he doesn't just question Republican or Democrat, he questions the whole government. But I believe he is wrong when talking to rather about literacy rates and how quickly a situation can change.

Iran is actually a good example of quick change. Though many rights are impeded there, the beginning of education, women's rights, adequate water, food, and ending mass poverty all starts with lowering fertility rates, which is accomplished thru a pronged approach of education, safe sex, lowering infant mortality rates, etc

All the poorest nations on earth share this statistic in common. They have high fertility rates. from 5 to 7 (that's 5 to 7 children average per family).

Iran lowered its fertility rate from 6.8 in 1982 to 2.6 in 1997. And the next phase has begun for them. Educated youth are rejecting the way things are, women are demanding rights, and the people are not impoverished (think Africa, Afghanistan, that's true ultra poor).

So that kind of change can happen fairly rapidly. The Dan Rather segment is the last segment of the full episode.

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Oh, I also liked Stewarts satire of the saved TARP funds.

200 Billion dollars less..."and it's gone, holy sh**"

    Reply#1 - Tue Dec 8, 2009 5:09 PM EST
    Sully 0420

    dan rather is a tool. I was a manager of a book store in an airport in new york. And his book sold very well for a time, but after a while it fell off the top ten lists altogether. As soon as it became number 11 i replaced it in the front of store with the new number ten. This is when the great Mr Rather walked in and said how dare i not have his book in front of the store. I told him its prominently displayed in the section but as it was no longer a bestseller , it was moved off the bestseller display. He huffed and whined like an adolescent girl until i put his book back in the front of store. He then walked out with some condescending remarks and with a i think who i am attitude. Of course I took all the copies of his book off the shelf completely the next day and buried them in the stock room, and whenever it was requested i gladly went and retrieved a copy , but not before telling the story which in 100 percent of the cases resulted in the customer not purchasing his book but another i talked up while bashing mr rather's lol. Dan rather is rather full of himself and i believe his watermelon reference was a freudian slip, in that his brain thinks in that way but for once it slipped out into the real world. Btw when my company put it on its returns list i still had six cases of his books. =)

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    Reply#2 - Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:43 PM EST
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