Dan Rather "Left" Behind by CBS

Dan Rather's career is over. Despite CBS Execs. statements that he had been talking with them about retiring since last summer, we all know why Rather will no longer be at the helm of the CBS Evening News.

CBS has determined that Rather is much more like the first definition of "anchor" found in the hyperdictionary:

1: [n] a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving

than either the second or third:

2: [n] a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
3: [n] a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute

Rather's biased bungling of the fraudulent story on George Bush's Guard duty has created huge swells of public criticism and distrust, that are battering the already listing CBS "ship." Just as a ship in danger of being swamped will cut away an anchor that has become trapped on the bottom, CBS is cutting away Rather in an attempt to escape the storm he created.

In a statement released earlier this week, Rather said he is looking forward to his new "assignment" as an investigative reporter for both editions of 60 Minutes. Unfortunately for Rather, his "career move" to Sixty minutes will be viewed in the same way as the 60 Minutes stop watch, recently put on display in Smithsonian Institution's popular culture collection, as a symbol of a story that will soon be over.

Arafat Enters Islamic "Paradise"

Today Yasser Arafat was pronounced dead. Despite his death, the legacy of his abominations goes on, in the form of terrorist atrocities committed by his Islamofacist Hamas party and all those who share his abject hatred of the West and Israel.

Yasser Arafat's 75 year biography of terror against the Jewish people reads like that of Adolph Hitler. During his life he was responsible for the death of far more Palestinians than the Israelis, who he vowed to destroy by Jihad. Thousands of innocent men, women and children have been bombed, shot and decapitated by either his direct order or the inspiration of terrorist organizations he has been affiliated with, including the Palestinian Authority.

No one who truly studies the historical facts surrounding Israel, the Palestinian People or Yasser Arafat will conclude that Arafat is anything but a genocidal terrorist and self-serving monster. His actions have prevented any type of peace in the Middle East and have helped fuel the flames of Islamofacist hatred that now rages worldwide.

Those who would "honor" such a man deserve our ridicule for their ignorance and our condemnation for their arrogance. Despite President Bush's prayer "God bless his soul," I believe the "paradise" awaiting Arafat and all terrorists, is an eternity in the same "Hell" they inflict on us here on earth.