Posted on 09/14/2004 8:15:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dan Rather, successor to Walter Cronkite as anchor of CBS News, may be about to close out his career on a banana peel.
Last Wednesday, Rather launched a "60 Minutes" pre-emptive strike against the president. Rather's charges: Bush got into the National Guard through pull, was an insubordinate officer who refused to take the medical exam to keep flying and used clout to prevent his being disciplined.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Indeed, if these memos turn out to be fakes, CBS and Rather will be guilty of, at least, having been played for fools. At worst, they could be convicted in the court of public opinion of collusion in a plot to bring down a president— a plot into which they were lured by a blinding bias against George W. Bush.
Listening to Randi Rhodes on SCair america, she believes the RNC set the whole thing up.
That's a rhetorical question, right?
Libs are dumb, no two ways about it.
Of course, they're all victims from the party of victims and the big bad Republicans are out to get them. hahaha - fools. The Democratic party depends on frogring and maintaining an aura of victimhood. Without forged victims there would be no reason for the Democratic party.
DAN WAS NOT "DUPED"
HE WAS A WILLING ACCOMPLICE TO CRIMES NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH RICO!
I don't believe for one second that Dan was duped. He was a participant. Logically, had he been duped, wouldn't a responsible journalist have outed the source quickly to keep a shred of credibility for himself and his employer?? Is he protecting someone, sure...himself first. What's funny, is all the little CBS's worker bees are going down with him. Do I feel sorry for them? No. They could've left the rathole anytime. Can't tell me employees didn't see the politics played by CBS... Just like Enron and Arthur Anderson, a corrupt empire must be burnt to the ground (figuratively speaking).
It weems everyone knows this but Dan Rather. He willingly went along with these because of his blinding hatred for Bush, now he has ended up helping Bush and hurting Kerry, how fitting and how ironic and how funny.
I don't know if that sort of thinking is what a courtroom would follow, but it makes sense to me.
Dan is stonewalling. Dan is not helping anyone find out the truth. Dan is (now) part of the fraud. Dan should be prosecuted. And CBS should lose its license from the FCC.
"Listening to Randi Rhodes on SCair america, she believes the RNC set the whole thing up."
If that were true we would have all had our noses rubbed in it by CBS by now.
A more direct phrasing of the question would be "how stupid is Dan Rather?"
Personally, I don't think he was stupid enough to actually believe in the authenticity of these documents.
He was stupid enough, though, to believe that his authority and credibility; inherited from the arch-fiend of activist media, Cronkite; would be great enough to overcome any doubts.
I think he simply under-estimated the power of new media, and over-estimated his own.
In this, he displayed the same weakness as other powerful and sinister figures throughout history, the fatal arrogance of hubris.
Buchanan is a vile bastard. This last paragraph is all that counts. It's what should be on the mind of ALL Americans!
Other than this... Buchanan can go back to the hole he crawled out of!
That will be the DNC talking points. McAwful alluded to that last week -- Karl Rove did it!
This is going to be great sport to watch!
LOL!!!!!
"I'm trying to be honest with you and it hurts me." -- Bill Clinton
You know what? This whole episode just warms my heart.
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