Posted on 09/20/2004 10:57:43 PM PDT by kattracks
Blowing hard is risky business. Kofi Annan got a pie in his face last week, delivered by Colin Powell, and last night Dan Rather left the set at CBS News glowing red at both ends, his face from embarrassment and his bottom from a boot applied by a rascally Internet gang.
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When the pastemaster general of the United Nations, ever eager to pass along and paste together rebukes and reprimands of the United States, told the BBC that the liberation of Iraq was "illegal" and a violation of international law, the secretary of state gave him a tutorial in how the world really works.
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One place he won't look for an example is at CBS News. Dan Rather and his network admitted yesterday what we've all been laughing about for a week. The memoranda from George W.'s Texas Air National Guard superiors, purportedly taking the young Lt. Bush to task for (gasp!) missing drills, were made up by a forger who was not very smart but who was smart enough to take Dan and CBS for a bumpy buggy ride down La-la Lane.
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If he can't any longer vouch for the memos "journalistically," whatever that means, he might still vouch for them "politically?" "Socially," maybe? He didn't say. But Dan's excellent adventure is not yet over. If he and CBS actually mean it that "nothing is more important to us than people's trust," the next chapter will be an identification of who typed up these "documents" and who aimed them at CBS. Everyone knows why.
Standing by a source no longer applies. There's no honor among crooks and thieves. Now we'll see whether there's honor among blowhards.
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They've always been glowing red. Communist red.
"What we did was totally justified by international law," he told editors and reporters at an editorial-board luncheon at The Washington Times. Not only that, Mr. Annan's remark was "not a very useful statement to make at this point. What does it gain anyone? We should all be gathering around the idea of helping the Iraqis, not getting into these kinds of side issues. I'm sure I will have the opportunity to talk to Kofi about this."
...................Hahah, Colin Powell, ever sooo cool. Watch it Kofi, you're going to get dressed down by a REAL man.
Excellent line!
News glowing red at both ends, his face from embarrassment and his bottom from a boot applied by a rascally Internet gang.
Pruden is a master. I wonder what his FR screen name is?
I think a LOT of these news reporters are commies, some going back to the 1940's.
Wasn't Walter Crackpot a news commentator in WW2?
I think a lot of those guys were anti-Hitler because he attacked Joe Stalin, and for no other reason. If Uncle Joe and Hitler remained buddies, I think the Media left in this country would have behaved in the 1940s exactly as they are behaiving now.
ping
Ditto
Did we ever decrypt all the Verona cables?
Do you suppose that it ever dawned on the dufuses (dufusae?) that EVERY SINGLE person who went to a pilot slot (or a slot in one of the military academies) since the end of WWII did so with the help of political influence. Especially guard pilot slots. This is no fault of GW - It is also true of every Guard pilot who's unit happened to be assigned to Nam. (when you have scores of qualified applicants for every opening can we believe they just draw straws to see who gets it?)
Guess we should bar not only those damn Guard Draft Dogers, but all Academy graduates (all college graduates, too - can't be elitists you know) -- The democrats could have picked their candidate from the Boston phone book and come up with better, but if, as it appears, they used the Boston Social Register or the Boston Yacht Club membership -- then isn't that political influence also?
According to Treason, no. Or at any rate, they all weren't released.
BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA! In all the years Dan Rather's been carrying water for the Leftists and America's enemies, he's never done anything "in good faith." Moreover, this bulldada about "reporting without fear or favoritism" is pure nonsense. Rather's career is built on instilling fear in people, and he's got the world record on showing favoritism to any person, cause or country that opposes the United States of America.
Stupid S.O.B. I hope this matter completely ruins his legacy and the rest of his ridiculous career.
No. Just the ones wherein the Soviets foolishly re-used the one-time pads.
As an aside -- and only tangentially related to that remark -- one of the funniest stories I ever heard in cryptography circles was how the Brits and the U.S. got loads of great decryption verification once a year from the Nazis. On Hitler's birthday, units often sent birthday wishes to der Fuhrer in both encrypted and plaintext format. This assured that the Allies were getting the decrypts right. : )
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