Dan Rather tweet

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

1. it's what the repuke base calls "FAKE NEWS"

republicans KNOW how stupid the cult is, for sure

[calimary]

34. But they also understand that if you repeat something often enough

it WILL become “true” for a lot of unsuspecting or non-thinking people. The message will soak in and become an acknowledged “truth” even when it’s a flat-out provable lie.

[keithbvadu2]

36. Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[calimary]

42. There certainly is that.

[Phoenix61]

2. They so want to go back to the days when microfiche ruled. nt

[SergeStorms]

9. I remember when....

microfiche was cutting edge technology.

[Phoenix61]

10. The first computer programs I wrote I typed on an 80 column cards.

I learned the hard way why you number them. Nothing like dropping a COBOL program and having to sort them by reading each line of code.

[hollygolively]

18. LOL - Right there with you.

We used to take a marker and mark the top of the cards from one corner of our card deck to the other. That way, if we dropped it, we could more easily put the cards back in order.

I spent a lot of time punching cards.

May the goddesses love you for doing the same

[USALiberal]

23. I did many Xs on a deck of cards, IBM 360/30!!!

[hollygolively]

26. Goddess love you!

We're showing our age.

[QED]

24. You bring back memories...not fond memories either.

Near tears in the computer lab at 3am only to learn a hard lesson: O is not 0.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. I had a visceral reaction to Cobal and Fortran. Hated it. Dropped the course!

[Lasher]

40. I wrote my punched card program in Basic, I think.

Never got into Fortran or Cobal.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Maybe that was the problem. I don't recall a "basic" course. Course it's been 45 years!

[Lasher]

45. Could be a memory problem on my part.

After all, that was back during the 1980s.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. In spite of that, I would return in a heartbeat for the uncomplicated, real freedom of the time.

My friends and I were much happier then, with very simple pleasures and still had a lot of fun. Zero electronics except TV, stereos and radio. Non-invasive.

[Demovictory9]

15. ..going to the library... looking at old newspapers on microfiche.

employees hired to put stuff on microfiche

[Ferrets are Cool]

25. This, and when LexisNexis was first available, I thought it was magic.

[Cha]

3. Rt💕🐱‍🏍TY & Dan Rather! I'm Grateful

their Voters are Against the Insane Invader of Ukraine, though!

Hopefully the Treason Caucus AKA/the Putin Squad will get Voted OUT!

💙💛

[Demovictory9]

17. i hope so too

[PlanetBev]

4. Dan, telling the truth, as always

A National Treasure, IMHO.

[ailsagirl]

41. That he is

[Wounded Bear]

5. You would think that the ads would write themselves...

[Patterson]

6. I don't know many clamoring to be pro Ukraine.

[Raine]

19. I don't either, seems more like they're clamoring to be pro Putin

and wanting Russia to win. 🤔

[Evolve Dammit]

32. That is the truly disturbing part. Don't remember or care about WWII lessons. Must not have any

capacity to grasp the horror of war and this Hitler-like campaign of Putin. Un-fing-real

[Joinfortmill]

7. Love Dan

[crickets]

8. Go, Dan. Love the microfiche ref. ✔

[Jakes Progress]

11. The trouble is that if it ain't on faux, it never happened

for the kind of knuckle draggers who vote for those republicans.

Republicans don't fear the truth. Their voters never hear it.

[Demovictory9]

16. true. sadly

[Silent3]

12. Blatant hypocrisy works... at least for Republicans

I have yet to see a Republican politician pay any sort of political price for absolutely most blatant hypocrisy.

"We have always been at war with Eastasia."

I remember reading that in high school. It took a bit of suspension of disbelief to imagine a world like Orwell's where that would work.

And now I'm living in that world.

[BlueIdaho]

13. "I stand on my record"

“No! Not that one… My NEW one!”

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

28. They follow their leader

[calimary]

43. The Traitorous Eight.

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Tr8rs.

[electric_blue68]

20. By cracky it's the Interwebs! Thanks, Dan.

[burrowowl]

21. Dan for the win!

[QED]

22. The Internet is a series of tubes...

Was it Grassley that said that? I can't remember.

[OMGWTF]

29. It was a Senator from Alaska Ted Stevens (?)

He said the Internet was a series of tubes not trucks. I remember spewing my tea when I heard that.

[Upthevibe]

27. Kick. N/T

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. The Internet?

They have yet to catch up to the fact that there are devices that record images, still and moving, and sound. Further, that they make them available to anyone with even rudimentary search skills, and forever.

There is no other explanation for a lot of the tripe that they say.

[Hortensis]

33. Ew, microfiche, driving to the library to scroll what they might have?

Horrible word to just stumble on without warning. I feel like I'd rather give up indoor plumbing than go back.

Go, Dan. Many do use the internet to verify before reacting.

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. No kidding. It got me through "Genetics" in college though

I liked my genetics class and wanted to do well. I was acing the exams, but needed to ace the lab too. BUT when it came to our fruit fly crosses, my partner and I some how got some odd results. This wasn't really unexpected. No matter how cold they kept the lab, there were always the little suckers flying around. My partner went to check our final cross and started freaking out because there were some curly wings when there should have been none. The lab assistant told him to calm down and said one word - "Microfiche". Sure enough, we went and looked up what our results should have been and reported that. I got my "A".

[Hortensis]

37. Lol, the eternal "Oh, no, curly wings!"

Now students frantically grab their phones.

[nakocal]

38. It is just that Republican voters are fucking stupid

and are unable to think for themselves. They just listen to the lies that the republicans in office tell them and NEVER look at their records.

[FakeNoose]

39. Dan Rather has faced down a lot of evil Repukes in his day

Peace out!