A TEXAN TO TEXAN OPEN LETTER TO DAN RATHER FROM RUSS VAUGHN …

Paratrooper, Vietnam War Style, Russ Vaughn, who writes those awesome
poems about John Forbes Kerry, sends this hilarious look, from a
Texan’s eyes, at Dan Rather’s predicament. Russ is not only a
paratrooper, but a Texan, too.

The Road Less Graveled
(A down home message for Dan Rather in the colorful Texas idiom he so
loves.)

Y’all know what we all been thinkin’ out here in Texas, Dan, since you
started all this foolishness? We think y’all been pissin’ down our
necks an’ tellin’ us it’s rain for so long that you boys done got to
believin’ it yourselves. Heck, we think maybe you been back East so
long you got yourself thinkin’ us folks out here couldn’t hit sand if
we fell off our horses; couldn’t hit water if we fell outta the boat.
Danged if you ain’t been treatin’ us like you think we got squirrels
swimmin’ in our gene pools or sumthin’. You need to remind yourself
that a tree don’t ever get too big for a short dog to lift his leg
on, Dan.

Bout them documents bein’ genuine; well, hells-bells, Danny Boy,
Grannie’s glasses are so thick, when she looks at a bare wall she see’s
folks wavin’ at her, an’ even she can tell them memos are bout as phony
as hips on a rattlesnake. We’re startin’ to think your brain done got
harder than a woodpecker’s lips if you can’t see that. As far as that
story bout George an’ his National Guard duty, looks to us like you’re
tryin’ to put wheels on a cow an’ call it a dairy truck. Then you go
pokin’ up her butt hopin’ you’re gonna find ice cream. Besides, ever
time you durn fools put that picture of young George in his flyboy
outfit on the TeeVee, ol’ Jane Fonda loses another herd of her Vagina
Voters. Hell, Charlene says that sweet boy’s purtier than my new
tangerine metalflake bass boat.

Well, Danny, you still ain’t lost all your redneck habits; you boys took
one pickup load to the dump an’ come back with two. Dadgummit, Dan,
where you gittin’ all this stuff? You been callin’ some kinda mystery
numbers that ol’ boy, whatsisname, Kenneth, is bringin’ you offa
bathroom walls at truck stops? Somethin’ you oughta be worryin’ about,
Danny Boy: you know how the boys say when you go on a hunt always make
sure to save a round for your huntin’ guide? Like if he don’t find
nuthin’ else for you to shoot? You suppose any a themrich,
fancy-shmancy, New York dudes you work for ever been on a hunt and
heard
that, Dan, hmmm?

You know how you always been fond a sayin’ you feel like a long tailed
cat in a room full a rockin’ chairs? Well, seems to us like you’re
startin’ to look more like the ground floor tenant in a two-story
outhouse. Yeah, for sure you ain’t lookin’ like the tallest hog at the
trough no more. Why, we bet you got yourself wired so tight right now
that if we stuck a chunk a coal up your butt it’d come out a diamond in
about five minutes. Last time we seen you on TeeVee your smile looked
like Charlene’s little ol’ chihuahua dog that time he bit down on one a
them ol’ yeller-jacket wasps; you know, kinda like that look a feller
gets when he squats with his spurs on.

An’ about your boss, that city slicker fella, Johnnie Klein, the one
said somethin’ bout all us sittin’ out here in our long johns? Well
we’re gonna give him some advice so good he can take it out back an’
bury it in a Mason jar. You see, the fact is, Danny Boy, now that all
us earthworms is gittin’ guns, you big birds is gonna have to be more
careful bout where you’re peckin’. Somebody needs to tell that dude,
Klein, that his cage may still be turnin’ but his squirrel’s done died.
Course, maybe the boy can’t help hisself; it might run in the family,
you know, generic. We heard tell when he was born his ol’ momma carried
the little feller around upside down for a whole year wonderin’ why he
only had one eye.

Yeah, them ol’ boys up there at Power Line done gone an’ slapped you
dudes nekkid an’ hid your clothes. Them blogger cats watched you fellers
jump inthat ol’ litter box an’ they just flat covered you up, quicker ‘n
slicker than WD 40 on a doorknob. Yeah you boys done gone skinny
dippin’ in a pond full a snappin’ turtles. Looks like them broadcastin’
geniuses at CBS done let them yeller-dog Democrats talk you inta sellin’
your mule so you could buy a plow. When you crawled into the sack with
little Miss McCauliffe you done got yourself a real ugly bed partner
there, Dan, like a real three-bagger, I mean. You know the drill: one
bag over her head, one over yours and one over the dog’s so’s at least
he’ll have some respect for you come mornin.’

Before all y’all up there at CBS go tryin’ to saddle up another hog for
a quarter horse race, you need to think about this: us ol’ boys out here
know a keyboard ain’t where you hang the pickup keys and a byte ain’t
what Bubba’s pit bull did to Cousin Billy; we know modem ain’t what we
did when the weeds got up to the porch and digital ain’t countin’ on our
fingers, least not any more. Yeah, we done got ourselves a dog in this
fight, a bloggin’ pit bull, Dan Boy, an’ he’s justa slobberin’ for
another big ol’ bite of Liberal blubber butt. Didn’t your ol’ daddy
ever tell you that you ain’t never gonna be the brightest bulb on the
tree if you go huntin’ bobcats with a BB gun?

But cheer up, Dan, maybe one a these days all you pointy-headed,
liberal, media fellers will see the light. Course, seein’s where y’all
seem to be keepin’ them pointy heads, it’ll prob’ly be one a them there
things the doctors use.

Whatcha call ‘em, proctoscopes?

Russ Vaughn
A Texan

P.S. Charlene says to yell you don’t even think about comin’ back to
Texas. Way folks out here feel, you’d have to tie a pork chop around
your neck just to get a dog to play with you.