Dan Rather refers to Obama as "an Osama bin Laden"

Dan Rather makes a bumbling idiot of himself while breaking an irony meter. He is talking about how today's 24h news cycle means anything you say, even when you aren't supposed to be live, is fair game for the sensationalistic news to use. Then, he defends Jesse Jackson by saying that, "...he was important in paving the way for an Osama bin Laden to appear..."

Stop and think about this for a moment: what in the hell does Jesse Jackson have to do with terrorism? Nothing. What else could Rather have meant? Obviously, that Jackson's run for the presidency in 1988 paved the way for Obama's candidacy today. So, Dan Rather confused not only the name, "Obama" with "Osama", which is bad enough, he confused, "Obama" with "Osama bin Laden". JFC...

H/T: I saw this at FiveThirtyEight.com, my favorite polling site. Also, check out their current projections and electoral map: