[Media] Tired White Men

I meant to join the pile-on the other day when Dan Rather croaked resigned —frankly, I had never forgiven CBS for replacing Douglas Edwards with that young whippersnapper with the moustache, Walter Cronkite, and moving to a 30 minute format — but when it comes to putting people in their place, no one does this sort of thing better than wonkette:

Some old man is going to stop doing this thing on the TV -- that show that airs between fiber supplement ads. Are we the only ones who hope he gets a gig as a Levitra spokesman? What an excellent opportunity for folksy homilies! "Harder than a whore's headboard"! "Longer lasting than August in Austin"! And he said something on election night about a "frog having sidepockets" which we swear is another term for tea-bagging but whatever.

I've also been watching Tom Brokaw's much more dignified farewell tour, looking back over the last 35 years or so. The Sixties were apparently about more than tie-dyed t-shirts, and the cultural upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies, some have even changed the way we live today. Reagan, even if you disagreed with his policies — in the circles I travelled, we were convinced he would blow up the world at any moment — Reagan was always avuncular. And so are you, Tom. Avuncularity 'R Us. Now, if we could ever come to grips with an actual understanding of our own history, the rest of the world might start making some sense.

But that's not likely. I'm puttng all my money on both NBC and CBS getting all Fox-y, just like CNN has been doing. Dim-witted dimpled loud and hectoring communications majors will find it's a sellers' market.

My only hope is that we can convince John Kerry that it was nothing personal, that we really never ever liked him, and he shouldn't even think about running again for President. Ever. Please God. No.