Irony: Dan Rather Defends Himself as Bold ‘Truth’ Teller, Mocks 'Ignorant' Climate Skeptics

[See NewsBusters for more.] Dan Rather has absolutely no sense of self awareness. The disgraced ex-CBS Evening News anchor on Friday posted video of a keynote speech he gave to the American Geophysical Union. In it, the man who lost his job at CBS over the use of phony documents, attacked the “ignorance” of climate skeptics and praised himself as similar to a scientist: “I believe we journalists and scientists are in many ways kindred spirits. We both try to get as close to the truth as is humanly possible.” Again, the man who used forged documents in a bid to derail George W. Bush’s presidential reelection campaign, stated this: “We both work with imperfect tools and high levels of uncertainty. We both must constantly challenge our own assumptions.”