Posted on 09/13/2004 6:12:09 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
Rather and CBS 0WNED.
exactly..CBS is sabotaging the War Effort in Iraq and trying to control the outcome of the Presidential Election.
Dan Rather is a pathetic fool. He so reminds me of Bagdad Bob it's not funny.
OK. GW drunk driving?
Smoking gun. Burn them all.
Good find, MistyCA. There it is.
No .. that was Chris Lehane
It's probably going to come out that Burkett shopped around the forged documents, that other media (like USAToday), didn't bite. And I bet CBS will burn Burkett's butt in a heartbeat if need be, to try and salvage their own reputation. The momentum of this story continues to grow. Each add-on I've seen so far, just adds more stink to CBS.
OK. Abu Garaib? (I need more coffee.)
Mary Mapes is not even listed on CBS or in the CBS bios.
Well, if you want to know whose idea it was......you might start by asking who Kerry spent 90 minutes talking to on the phone in his hospital room, who suggested Kerry take on Begala and Carville and the other ex-Clinton political reptiles in the first place.
Ooops, I guess I gave it away.
I think we've got to cut CBS a break here.
Think of it like this. Suppose you're a producer at C.B.S. news, and you get a source who says that, say, Jim Jones (of the Peoples' Temple) was responsible for causing the death of a few more people than the he 900 or so he's already responsible for.
How much scrutiny do you subject this story to? I mean, really, is it that hard to believe?
As far as C.B.S. is concerned, George Bush, Republicans, and conservatives in general are every bit as reprehensible as was Jim Jones. Information that reflects badly on them is as beliveable as information stating that the sun will rise tomorrow. Does that statement need to be fact checked?
If you look at it that way it makes a lot more sense.
(steely)
Like it was up there with Bali and Beslan.
and I can't find it.
My guess is that these forgeries are a part of a conspiracy that was born in Texas -- Texas Democrats authored these doc's. Barnes came forward & changed his story at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if Dan Rather's daughter is also mixed up in this as a conduit to CBS News.
Concur. Rather is trying to replicate Cronkite's takeout of the Johnson Administration, and throwing the Vietnamese War even as Westmoreland's people and the ARVN were defeating the Viet Cong in detail and disarticulating their formations and their cadres by the simple expedient of killing them in the field.
At some level it's about social competition, but when our foreign policy is on the line, I don't care what the self-appointed New Class mugwumps like Rather think.
Notice how the media are closing ranks on this one? "We should be talking about the economy." "We should be talking about the war." "Why are we spending time on photocopies and commas and what someone did 35 years ago?" "What does it really matter?"
Fog so thick you could cut it with a knife. They apparently resent getting told to go to work.
Limbaugh mentioned last week that Barnes is a big wig in the Dem Party in the same county in TX where Rather's daughter lives. Remember when Rather spoke at that Dem fund raiser a few years ago? It was for the Dem Party in this same TX county. Not only that, but Barnes reportedly has a house in Nanatucket not too far from Rather. Coincidence? i think not!
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Oh, look........NO doubt they'll (CBS brass) find a few sacrificial lambs to gut for this. Rather will survive; he's an "icon", donchaknow. To fire Rather would be a HUGE and VERY public admission of their complicity in this plot (no other way to describe it), and they cannot allow that to happen.
A producer here, an exectutive producer there, chest-thumping about how they must "maintain their integrity and have taken appropriate steps", yada yada......you see it coming. Then the rest of us will be told to just shut up, move along, case closed.
CBS needs to take heed, though. It won't work. We are NOT going to let it go. When a major broadcast network decides to go after a sitting President in an election year in the shabbiest, most obviously partisan way imaginable, then they must know that this is WAR.
We have 'em by the short 'n' curlies, and we aren't letting this one slide, CBS.
That describes Dan Rather. For decades.
When Rather was in Jasper during the Byrd trials he was followed around by a young woman with a big case of make-up and powdered his nose during the commercial breaks. It was really comical to watch.
Dan Rather defines "false pride."
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