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Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan Rather to 'play it straight' on Comedy Central tonight
By Gail Shister, Inquirer Columnist

This is not a joke.

Dan Rather will analyze election results with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert tonight at 11 on Comedy Central's live, hour-long Indecision 2006 special.

"It's a risk, I guess, but what the hell," says Rather, who covered every national election since 1962 for CBS before being drop-kicked in June. Now he's global correspondent for Mark Cuban's HDNet.

"J. Stewart and company offered the chance, and I've taken it," Rather, 75, says. "I don't do comedy, I do politics, which sometimes is one and the same...."

Equally absurd are the corny "Ratherisms" he dragged out during many election-night marathons.

Among our faves: "If a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun." And: "This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach."...

Rather has never been a guest of The Daily Show or Colbert Report, but he's grateful to them for giving him a platform from which to keep his 44-year string of election coverage going.

"I'm hoping this old wreck of an anchorman and political reporter may yet have some wee something to contribute," he says....

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