Rather Puzzling
Imagine the Principal of your child's school recklessly careens into the school parking lot, ignoring years of driving experience and all manner of prudence, he jumps the curb and slams into the building. Emerging from his car he proclaims that he did nothing wrong, and that his action serves to expose the architect as incompetent for putting the road so close to the building. But days later admits that it is possible that colliding with the school building was possibly a breach of responsible driving, and if it is such a breach he wants to be the one to discover and announce what went wrong. The School Board succumbs to the pressure exerted by an interested citizenship and announces an investigation will be held. Then, in a move which will have scholars debating the cause and effects of such a decision for years to come, the School board announces that they will wait until after the school year ends to announce the findings of the investigation. So, the school year ends, and before the investigation finishes, the Principal comes along and announces that he will step down as Principal, at a near time of his choosing, because he wants to go back to doing what he really loves; driving the school bus.
Oh, and by the way, did you hear that Dan Rather says he is stepping down in March so that he can re-live the past?,
"I have always been and remain a 'hard news' investigative reporter at heart,"
Maybe he can start investigating whether his report supported by forged documents was based on facts?
"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.' "
That is news which he will be hard pressed to make believeable.
