Posted on 03/09/2017 10:07:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
He has to put in a special character ball for those “th”s.
More fiction from a fiction writer.
When an ordinary barf just won’t do...
Dan Rather is very patriotic.
In fact, he was there when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
“I believe you can be considered an honest person and lie abotu any number of things.” — Dan Rather, May 15, 2001
And dedicated to his hero - Ho Chi Minh. Hope he prints the picture of Jane Fonda on the Anti-Air Craft gun...it will be a fitting tribute to the tone of the book.
Dan Rather, the father of fake news.
“cataclysmic” - that’s great!
LMAO!
Dan Rather patriotic?
yea, like Walter Cronkite.
“Strangely, this book will only be available for purchase at your local Kinkos outlet.”
Aced!
I think he should split the royalties with Free Republic since we put him where he is today.
He will probably depict it as evil.
I think he should split the royalties with Free Republic since we put him where he is today.
Not sure if Kenneth knows the amplitude either.
I’ll backdate it but won’t revise.
Dan’s career-making day in Dallas had several curious twists and turns, demonstrating his ability to find the spotlight and hog it.
For starters, The Dan was essentially a back-up on JFK’s visit to Dallas. He had been recently re-assigned to CBS’s New Orleans bureau, after an initial, shaky stint in New York The network already had several experienced reporters assigned to the visit, including the late Robert Pierpoint and Lew Wood. At the moment shots rang out in Dealy Plaza, Rather was on his way to pick up film from a CBS cameraman and deliver it to the lab at KRLD-TV (the network’s Dallas affiliate) for processing. Hardly the duties that would be assigned to a front-line network correspondent.
Hearing gunfire, Rather had enough sense to run to Parkland Hospital and begin gathering more information. He happened to run into a Catholic priest who had administered last rites to JFK. Moments later, on the phone with the CBS desk in NYC, Rather was asked if the president was dead. “Yes,” he confirmed, without mentioning he didn’t have a second sources. Seconds later, Alan Jackson announced JFK’s death on CBS Radio, followed quickly by Walter Cronkite on CBS-TV, citing Rather as their source.
Had Rather been wrong, his career would have ended right there. Instead, his Texas background helped him get a spot as CBS’s White House correspondent in the early days of the Johnson Administration and Rather was on his way. But not before he completely antagonized the staff at KRLD-TV over the days that followed the Kennedy assassination, resulting in the station ejecting CBS news crews from its newsroom.
Back in those days, in the middle of a huge story, that was an unpardonable sin for a “visiting” network news contingent. The local station was essential for processing raw film, editing it and feeding it to the network, often at the expense of their own, local stories. It took some high-level negotiations to get Dan back into KRLD, but once again, fate smiled on Rather. It would take another four decades for most Americans to learn what an ass Dan Rather really is.
Guest author Brian Williams?
Even worse, that incident you referred to also had Rather in his reporting making it seem as though a Catholic School in the Dallas area actually celebrated JFK’s assassination (in reality, they only were celebrating that they got to go home early, and didn’t even KNOW at the time that the president was shot), and he ran that report despite Eddie Baker making explicitly clear that the story was fake, which nearly got him fired.
You can read all about it here: http://www.jfkmurder.com/rather.html
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