Fourty-four years gone
he's leaving CBS
Won't sit in an office
sleeping behind a desk
He wanted substantive work
They'd rather he just sit and jerk
Back in Sixty-one
he tied himself to a tree
in a hurricane
and kept the cameras rollin'
March of oh-five
they were starting to cut him free
you could tell which way
the wind was blowin'
He wanted substantive work
They'd rather he just sit and jerk
Dan Rather
leaving CBS
Tenure, schmenure—Dan Rather will leave CBS News later this year. One imagines an uptick in playtime for a certain REM single over the next few months.
Mr. Rather, I’d trade you for any three Interns in a heartbeat.
