Dan Rather Dresses Up For "Daily Show" Sketch Mocking Media On Obama Burger (VIDEO)

Dan Rather joined Jon Stewart in mocking the media's coverage of President Obama and Vice President Biden's trip to Ray's Hell Burger Tuesday by dressing up as a 1973 newsman and creating a fake report of a Nixon/Kissinger burrito run.

"I'm standing outside Washington, DC's Cancun Mexican restaurant," Rather said, dressed in a wig. "Inside, President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger are enjoying some traditional Mexican entrees. I'm told the President ordered Mexicana Madness — that's a spicy chicken burrito — while Dr. Kissinger opted for a fish taco (lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, and copious amounts of a substance known to locals as 'guacamole')."

Rather continued, reporting that Nixon and Kissinger got separate checks — "they're going Dutch on this!" — and joking that Nixon said he doesn't make his own burritos because, "I am not a cook."

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Comments

[jimmyjones22]

I am not a cook. LMAO

[abouttime]

Dan Rather has integrity. He tells the truth and is black-listed from mainstream media. The networks are a disgrace. Money talks and "news" becomes propaganda for corporate profits in misleading the ignorant public into accepting ignoble wars and human suffering as "the way it is".
Well... it is not that way it is because "we" know the truth that the power lies not in guns, but in love and compassion.

[devans00]

The sketch with Dan Rather was a hoot. I cracked up more when they showed the clock with how much time had passed with him babbling on about Mexican food. The curly fro and the muttonchops were the icing on the cake.

So many people zoomed by in the background like it was nothing special going on.

[gisellestwocents]

Funny. I LOLed anyway!!

[archrev]

brilliant

[FreedomTruth]

Not what expected.It wasn't funny at all.Just bored me to death.

[runnerin1]

It was hilarious to me, and I only read the transcript.

[Old Grandad]

When did they remove your funnybone?

[avocado]

ah, poor baby, is there something we can do to make you feel better?

[jimmyjimmy07]

Don't worry, comedy is not for everybody." Hey Look, its Carrot Top! Yipeeee!"

[StillAmused]

Glad I got to watch real newsmen like Rather, before the corporations decided to turn "news" programming into streetcorner performance art.

The last laugh will be on CBS.

BTW, still waiting for anyone -- ANYONE -- to refute the gist of Rather's story on Junior's "missing year"...

[tnlcallen]

Yeah, so what if the story was built around faked documents. That certainly doesn't make it not true, just means that there is no proof. Still waiting for anyone - ANYONE- to provide proof that the story is true.

[Old Grandad]

It's only true if you can add 2 and 2 and get 4. You got 3.

[abouttime]

The documents were corroberated by other evidence. They documents (about Bush's missing year) were never proved to be fraudulent!
Ignorance is sometimes willful. Denial and not seeking truth are the cause of ignorance.
Rather was black listed for telling the truth!

[Retrofuturistic]

The intellectual level of the news is in direct proportion to the intellectual level of the populace....

[DaisyDooks]

I approve this message. Swing-bada-bing!

[BOin08]

Lame skit. Tarnished reputation. Journalism is dead. Dan killed it.

[CeeCee]

I thought it was very funny! Good for Dan Rather.

[dansup]

I use to think Dan was a dick, but lately he's been showing a much better side, enjoy his show on HDTV too, he's got a lot of stamina for a guy his age, and he was a good sport to do this skit

[Durango]

Dan rather is the only one in the current crop of media hacks who has a soul.

He is still a dweeb. But he has a soul..

Anyone pick up on the important piece of this Daily Show episode?

When Jon interviewed Stephonopolus that fool repeated the cover story on Iraq. He said "The intelligence was wrong."

No. The intelligence was right. Everyone knew there were no WMD's in Iraq. Because the UN Inspectors on the ground couldn't find them. They were the "experts" on WMD's in Iraq.

Here we are 6 years later and Stepnanopolis is still repeating that cover story. He has yet to figure out that it was a lie.

[naturallight]

he is a coward. hear him say it himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHYlAhOo8Zc

[negogato]

The concussion of the UN inspections was months away. GWB halted that, fearing he would loose his war cause.
ALL EVEDENCE that was without gin said that there were no WMD's
Joe Wilson stated the truth about GWB claims of Nigerian Yellow Cake Uranium being purchased and delivered to Iraq.
And the response from Cheney/Bush was to reveal the identity of a covert CIA agent in the childish hope that it would somehow discredit her husband.
ANYTHING worse?

[Durango]

The Un Inspectors were on the ground in Iraq not finding anything.

There could not possibly be any better intelligence than that.

And if you were paying attention you would have heard that from the CIA. Being leaked through former agents who could talk to the media.

[SmallFarm]

I didn't see or heard anything funny. No laughs from me.

[yellowdoggie]

Not even the line about the mermaid's hair on prom night? Really? No laughs at all? Not even a smile?

[CeeCee]

Oh, I'm so sorry. Maybe you're not in the mood. Try it another time. I mean it, I'm not being sarcastic.

[verticallychallenged]

I agree - it was even funnier the 2nd time I watched. Kudos to Rather for being a good sport.

[american-dolt]

Great, funny, I like how his sideburns aren't high enough to meet the wig line.

[NormDPloom]

That was great. But lampooning the Huffington Post would be just as easy.