Posted on 09/18/2004 12:46:08 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
I was in SEA in 1968. Somehow a rumor started in my unit that my father was a US Senator.
The only "special" treatment I got, was ass chewings when I deserved them,
and promotions when I deserved those.
If you had ever run across a real "fortunate son", you would know what I am talking about.
No knock on W, just a reality check.
You're saying they should go sell bologna someplace else?
Nixon's Justice...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1216159/posts
According to another thread, Rather is also the "Managing Editor" of CBS News, which means HE is the decision-maker who decides what is news.
That's the irony of Buchanan...he has been (in the past) a brilliant journalist and commentator, but he's always been a horrible politician.
If Rather thought he would of gotten caught, he would not of done it.
Somewhere in the Nixon Library, a ghostly figure stalks the halls, chuckling quietly, and musing,"Now you're the one running, Dan."
Pat will say whatever is going to make more money for him.
I kind of hope the guy goes on as his audience wanes into the single digit thousands nationally and consists entirely of morons as he continues on deluding himself that he's anything but an angry old geezer who's life of malice, spite, and angry-man reporting. That should sink CBS pretty good. Heck, why get him outta there to replace him with some other lib with a hidden agenda yet that relates to some people. By the way, does anyone have any footage from Rather's report the night of the 2000 election. I have to say, when he thought that Bush had won Florida and then he got the news thag "Gore had actually won it" later on that evening, if that moment didn't paint the picture as to how biased he is, then I don't know what does. I'm tellin' ya, anyone with access to it coupled with the ability to put it in a stream, it'll paint a very clear picture of Rather's bias.
PJB recently stated that he was undecided between Bush and Peroutka.
I think he said that on Scarborough, sometime within the past week or so.
But he's a big time "journalist", right?
No, he's not, what he really is, is a partisan hack and a moronic simpleton. A perfect example of todays new democrat and a symptom of what has gone horribly wrong in America and in Amercian politics.
cool idea.
"I was in SEA in 1968. Somehow a rumor started in my unit that my father was a US Senator.
The only "special" treatment I got, was ass chewings when I deserved them,
and promotions when I deserved those.
"
The actual sons of senators/congressmen would have their preferential treatment come from above - I am not sure why people don't think that the army is going to go out of its way to avoid getting the son of that congressman who votes on their money killed.
my above comment should read 'armed forces' rather than just army, but my point remains...
my take on the media is that they probably push frauds and forgeries pretty often, but only get caught when they either do something realllly flagrant under a LOT of scrutiny (the rather memos were way too high profile to push such bad efforts) or they take on a Big-Gun company who can go head to head with them, such as GM vs GE/NBC in the early 90's.
More than anything, I am baffled at the quality of the forgeries. A very small investment of time would have produced memos with identical typewriter key-type to the extant documents from that unit, which despite other irregularities might have sufficed to keep this from becoming a national story.
For those who want to buy into the Rove paranoia theories, sadly it is the gross incompetence of the forger that most supports it. This must be doing tremendous damage to kerry's prospects.
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