Dan Rather: "Obama Is Articulate But He Couldn't Sell Watermelons If You Gave Him The State Troopers To Flag Down The Traffic" (VIDEO & Transcript)

Video:  Dan Rather & Andrea Mitchell with Chris Matthews -- March 7, 2010

The fact that Rather's comment hasn't garnered more attention is proof that in the politicized media 'who said it' is more important than 'what is said.'

Dan Rather is not a political conservative, nor is he viewed as an opponent of Deficit Obama, so his comments raise eyebrows but not outrage.  We don't support either side (both parties are gargantuan failures, captured) but objectively it's not a tough call to say, with extreme confidence even, that had Rather's words been uttered by any Republican anywhere, the clip would be running on non-stop embarrassment loop at CNN, MSNBC and elsewhere.

Watch the clip and decide for yourself.

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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Will health care, the health care bill of Barack Obama, the one he roughly is for now, coming out of the Senate and coming out of the House. Will it become law? Will he win?

DAN RATHER: Yes because what we have now is basically a Republican health care bill, if it gets through. It's, it's got a lot...but I think the President finally putting his whole sack in on it, yes he wins but it's not a certain thing.

MATTHEWS: Andrea?

ANDREA MITCHELL: I think close call it has to win or else this presidency is in serious...

MATTHEWS: So in other words they'll make it happen.

MITCHELL: They've got to make it happen.

MATTHEWS: Joe Klein?

JOE KLEIN, TIME: Congressional Democrats are dreadful but they're not entirely stupid. They have to pass it.

MATTHEWS: And Nancy Pelosi will have her greatest triumph.

KLEIN: Sort of.

RATHER: When you talk about a triumph though. One, part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama's leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. "Listen he just hasn't been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death." And a version of, "Listen he's a nice person, he's very articulate" this is what's been used against him, "but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic."

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Source:  Mediaite  News Busters

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Comments

[DailyBail]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/dan-rather-uses-obama-articulate-and-watermelons-in-same-anecdote/

Dan Rather Uses “Obama,” “Articulate” And “Watermelons” In Same Anecdote

[DailyBail]

Dan Rather: 'Articulate' Obama Couldn't Even 'Sell Watermelons'

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/08/dan-rather-articulate-obama-couldnt-even-sell-watermelons#ixzz0hhR8qm48

[James H]

Obama also once wrote a poem about watermelons. (Or maybe, as some say, it was written by his real dad, Frank Marshall Davis -- the same guy who took nude photos of Obama's white mama when she was about 19. Then again, there are others who say that Obama was never "born" at all -- he's actually the spawn of a space alien and was hatched from an egg. That's why they won't show the real birth certificate -- instead of checking one of the boxes reading "Delivered by cesarean" or some such, they had to scribble in "Hatched from a goddam space egg (WTF?)". Or so I hear.)

[DailyBail]

that was hilarious...hatched from a goddamn space egg...

[John S]

Watermelon? Couldn't Dan have slipped in "fried chicken" and used the word "darkie" while he was at it? Geez, the state-run media certainly has selective hearing.