It was no surprise to see Dan Rather being idolized in the Bangor Daily News but I was disappointed to have to endure [sportscaster] Tim Throckmorton do a piece on his Nov. 1 Orono visit during intermission of a subsequent Black Bears Hockey game.

Isn’t this the same Dan Rather who dictated what he thought was news for the better part of 30 years? The same man who forced his own political ideology on the country when the left-wing press controlled the airwaves? The same hack who manufactured a story about George W. Bush, our sitting president, to try to help the left get into power unsuccessfully in 2004?

It is bad enough that our tax money is going to pay for this has-been reporter to speak to our state university students, but even worse when I found out our middle school kids from Hampden and other towns went to hear the drivel that spewed forth from this angry old left-wing hack.

Read what he had to say and compare that to what is happening today and then tell me he is not out of touch with mainstream America. But then again so is the Democratic Party.

Rick Robinson

Hampden