Posted on 09/19/2004 1:54:23 PM PDT by thebride
Rather Ambushed at Dallas Airport; Anchor Bashes Fox September 18, 2004 15:34:06 EDT Fox News has reported that Dan Rather received the "60 Minutes treatment" when he was confronted by a local Dallas TV reporter.
Rather has flown to Dallas apparently to help his CBS people in Dallas get their stories straight and bolster their defense. More and more media organizations are picking apart Rather's claims, as more is uncovered about the Texas Democrats who seem to have originated the story.
The reporter, from the local Fox affiliate, asked Rather if he felt he was duped. Rather shot back, "Do you feel like you were duped -- working for Fox like you do?"
I had the same thought about his disrespect to Pres. Nixon.
Word is that RATher will do an interview with Burkett.
Seems he will try to push more of that...."the thrust of the story is accurate", which is complete Bullsh!t.
When the evidence he used for the basis of his story are forged/FAKED documents......If the source of the faked memos...is a guy who has had to retract his claims before....HAD TO ADMIT HE LIED...and has been discredited...
THE THE THRUST OF THE STORY IS FAKE TOO.
You can't claim that the charges made in a story are real....WHEN THEY ARE MADE UP!
Give it up, Dan. You suck. It's time to retire.
Come On guys, you gotta look at from Dan the Great's viewpoint!
Here he is, after one hell of a week, flying down to Texas to meet up with the source of the memos so he can get the stories straight and continue the cover-up while he's making conference calls back to Black Rock to get the latest news and..................
OH NO! HERE COMES A FOX REPORTER WITH A CAMERA!!! OH, THIS IS JUST GREAT!!!
It's obvious Dan is in Texas to have a up close and personal meeting with the source that gave CBS those documents. If Rather was duped, he will likely kick somebody's ass. If he was in on it, he'll end up in long spitballing sessions while they try to get their stories straight.
Either way, his coming down to Texas doesn't look good. And now a Fox News Crew has his arrival in Texas on tape, so now the whole world knows that Dan The Great is in Texas.
Of course he was pissed!
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Man, it's gonna take a week to clear that smell of liberal media arrogance out of the DFW terminal.
Wish we had known Rather would be in Dallas. Time to call the affiliate and warn them not to go down the tubes with this drowning man. The truth is going to out and woe to anyone that participates in a cover up.
I feel a sense of justice watching Dan Rather crumble. He's an icon of liberal media bias, and his snide little Fox news "duped" comment shows how frustrated he this that his influence and power are eroding as Fox news routinely beats them in the ratings. Liberal news media despise the rise of Fox news because it punctures their cozy little liberal cocoon that they've been living in for years. They no longer have a monopoly on the dissemination of information and for once, every damn news story doesn't have a leftist slant.
Imagine that. Free speech bothers liberals in the news media. Well the exposure of dishonesty and bias must continue with the New York Times, The LA Times, and other oppressors of information.
Oh no, you've missed the symbolism. Now it is Dan Rathers who is being hounded by his own style of in-your-face journalism. Now it is Rather who is being persecuted.
This is the stage of the chase where the fastest of the hounds begin to nip at the old gray fox.
Soon the beast will be beset upon by the rest...
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Carl Rove on behalf of Haleburton wanted me to note that Dan's Fox remark was right out of Moore's playbook. This might make Dan unhappy, it might make him nuts. SadDan Insane.
I posted an earlier thread about Fox mentioning that he was there.
I live not too far from D/FW airport. Had I known that lying sack of sh!t was gonna be there.....
I would have been waiting to have a 'discussion' with him.
Texan everywhere are ashamed that that b@stard came out of our state.
I think I will call the Governor's office on Monday and request that Rather officially have his status as a Texan revoked.
I thought the reporter was just too freakin' polite...he should have come right out and asked some tought ones, "Mr. Rather, WHY did you accept forgeries, do you want John Kerry to win the election? Is your daughter involved, did you speak with Max Cleland"...etc.
I'm thinking it's sucked for many years...now.FRegards,
Dan Rather forgot the old maxim, never let them see you sweat. His snide remark about Fox shows that Rathergate is gettin' to him.
Let's call it a tie.
I'm not sure...I thought the saying was "buy low, sell high."
I'd have been more worried if he shorted the stock.
Why was Fox the only network at the airport trying to get a statement from Rather?
Heez just the guy for the job, ROTFLMAO!!!
I am confused about the proper retort to shoot at RatherAngry(TM).
Is it "FOX you!"
or
"Go FAX yourself!"
Gee, my dream is to cream him with a blackberry pie while asking, "What's the provenance, Kenneth?"
HEY FREEPERS,
I guaranteeeeeeee you that the Democraps are behing this....
Look at this from the American Spectator when all of this started.
THE FIRST THREE PARAGRAPHS ARE THE SILVER BULLET!
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7096
Washington Prowler
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By The Prowler
Published 9/10/2004 12:09:06 AM
More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian.
The oppo researcher claimed the source was "a retired military officer." According to a DNC staffer, the documents were seen by both senior staff members at the DNC, as well as the Kerry campaign.
"More than a couple people heard about the papers," says the DNC staffer. "I've heard that they ended up with the Kerry campaign, for them to decide to how to proceed, and presumably they were handed over to 60 Minutes, which used them the other night. But I know this much. When there was discussion here, there were doubts raised about their authenticity."
The concerns arose from the sourcing. "It wasn't clear that our source for the documents would have had access to them. Our person couldn't confirm from what file, from what original source they came from."
The documents that CBS News used were not documents from any of Bush's personnel files from his time in the National Guard. Rather, CBS News stated that they were documents uncovered in the personnel files of Killian. That would explain why the White House or the Pentagon had never before released or even seen them.
According to a Kerry campaign source, there was little gossip about the supposedly hot documents inside the office of the campaign on McPherson Square. "Those documents were not something anyone was talking about or trying to generate buzz on," says the staffer. "It wasn't like there were small groups of people talking about this as a bombshell. I think people here weren't sure what to make of it, because provenance of these documents was uncertain."
A CBS producer, who initially tipped off The Prowler about the 60 Minutes story, says that despite seeking professional assurances that the documents were legitimate, there was uncertainty even among the group of producers and researchers working on the story.
"The problem was we had one set of documents from Bush's file that had Killian calling Bush 'an exceptionally fine young officer and pilot.' And someone who Killian said 'performed in an outstanding manner.' Then you have these new documents and the tone and content are so different."
The CBS producer said that some alarms bells went off last week when the signatures and initials of Killian on the documents in hand did not match up with other documents available on the public record, but producers chose to move ahead with the story. "This was too hot not to push. If there were doubts, those people didn't show it," says the producer, who works on a rival CBS News program.
Now, the producer says, there is growing concern inside the building on 57th Street that they may have been suckered by the Kerry campaign. "There is a school of thought here that the Kerry people dumped this in our laps, figuring we'd do the heavy lifting on the story. That maybe they had doubts about these documents but hoped we'd get more information," says the producer. "If that's the case, then we're bigger fools than we already appear to be judging by all the chatter about how these documents could be forgeries."
ABC News' political unit held a conference call at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening to discuss the memo and its potential ramifications should the documents turn out to be a forgery. That meeting took place around the time that the deceased Killian's son made public statements questioning the documents' authenticity.
According to one ABC News employee, some reporters believe that the Kerry campaign as well as the DNC were parties in duping CBS, but a smaller segment believe that both the DNC and the Kerry campaign were duped by Karl Rove, who would have engineered the flap to embarrass the opposition.
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