#dan rather

[sher-ee]

Dan Rather is not mincing words!

#donald trump #traitor trump #fuck the gop #gop #republicans #patriot #treason #dan rather #bloop #maga #vote blue #joe biden 2024

[porterdavis]

#trump will die in jail #dan rather

[petermorwood]

This is one of, if not THE, best April Fools jokes ever, and may even be the very first to air on "serious TV". The prank was aired April 1 1957 at the end of the BBC current-affairs programme “Panorama”.

It was helped by spaghetti being a rare exotic food in 1950s Britain, and narration by the hugely respected journalist and presenter Richard Dimbleby made it utterly convincing.

Afterwards people either got the joke - or didn’t, and wanted to grow their own spaghetti trees. These optimists were told to “place a length of dry spaghetti in a jar of tomato sauce and hope for the best”.

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The entire spoof got it wrong, of course, since free-range organic spaghetti doesn’t grow on trees at all. 

In actual fact it’s a kind of marshland reed, and very seasonal, only available from March 15 (when by tradition the first harvest is made by use of many small sharp knives) through until April 2nd, when it’s officially declared to be stale.

Extruded lengths of flour-water-egg paste - originally called spaghetti finti or spaghetti di casa - replicate these reeds while being available all year round.

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Some humourless pundits indulged in sputtering outrage that such nonsense was part of a serious programme, but "Panorama” producer David Wheeler stuck to his guns, suggesting that viewers needed a more critical attitude to what was shown on TV, and shouldn’t believe everything they saw. 

What would he have said now?

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@dduane​ says that for US readers to understand just how effective it was, imagine the same thing on “60 Minutes”, voiced with equal sincerity by Dan Rather.

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And oddly enough, what we’re having for supper tonight will be...

Probably not spaghetti.

;->

#April Fool's Day #spaghetti harvest #Richard Dimbleby #Dan Rather #pinch of salt

[everything-maxriemelt]

#us politics #dan rather #this also applies in U.K. #stop telling me the Tories and Labour are the same #they aren’t and we need to be a grown up #no party is going to be perfect for you or anyone

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #republican party #Dan rather #republican assholes

[oldshowbiz]

#dirty game show screen grabs #dirty game show moments #dan rather

[dadsinsuits]

Robert Redford

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #men in suits #daddy #suited grandpa #suitedman #silverfox #suitfetish #suit daddy #suited men #buisness suit #suited man #suitedmen #americans #actors #truth movie #dan rather #Robert Redford

[luckydiorxoxo]

#Dan rather #letitia james #donald trump

[northernexposuregifs]

But I'm a one-anchor man.

#northern exposure #90s television #90s tv shows #dan rather #frank salsedo #rob morrow #uncle anku #joel fleischman #nx #1x02 brains know-how and native intelligence

[contemplatingoutlander]

Yes, run Hawley! Run! 

A little unexpected  Dan Rather and January 6th committee snark!

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#josh hawley #january 6th committee #dan rather #snark #run hawley run #us politics #hypocrisy #cowardice #insurrection #trump #the big lie #my gifs

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Dan Rather Born: October 31, 1931, Wharton, TX Physique: Average Build Height: 5' 11" (1.8 m)

Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. is an American journalist and former national evening news anchor. Rather began his career in Texas, becoming a national name after his reporting saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in September 1961. In 1981, Rather was promoted to news anchor for the CBS Evening News, a role he occupied for 24 years. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Tom Brokaw at NBC News, he was one of the "Big Three" nightly news anchors in the U.S. from the 1980s through the early 2000s.

Married with 3 children, Rather described himself as a journalist, storyteller and lifelong reader. A Texan, by birth and by choice. I like to add, handsome and fuckable even at 90. What? He could still get it if he wanted.

#Dan Rather #mydaddywiki #journalist #american journalist #celebrities

[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

#dan rather

[aunti-christ-ine]

#nbc news #ronna mcdaniel #scaramucci #dan rather #ronna romney mcdaniel

[bitter1stuff]

#dan rather #fascism

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

#Dan Rather #Matthew McConaughey #Ted Nugent #Donald Trump #ManChild Trump #celebrity

[oldshowbiz]

1982.

John Belushi: Dead of Natural Causes.

#John Belushi #news #Dan Rather #Saturday Night Live #snl #Chateau Marmont