Posted on 03/06/2005 1:14:53 PM PST by Coastal
As Dan Rather prepares to step down as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, latest indications are that nothing has really changed at the network and nothing will change. Despite the reported housecleaning stemming from the "Rathergate" phony-documents scandal, also known as Memogate, the newscast still refuses to correct basic and documented errors of fact. Business as usual continues at CBS.
On January 12th, just two days after the release of the "independent" report on Memogate, when you would have thought that CBS would have had their fact checkers and proofreaders working overtime, came this gaffe: as part of their Fallen Heroes feature on the CBS Evening News, in which they talk about someone who has died in the war on terror, with sad music playing in the background, Dan Rather introduced Sergeant Joseph Guerrera. While showing his picture and a graphic that showed he was an Army pfc., age 20, Rather said, "He was just four when his father was killed in the Vietnam War. Guerrera started wearing his dad's dog tags and decided he wanted to be a soldier too." After giving information about his death, the report highlighted another picture and a graphic showing he was born in 1983 and died in 2003. To the best of our recollection the war in Vietnam ended in 1975. You do the math.
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As low as whale $hit.
I'm only sorry he didn't get caught 30 years earlier and ousted then!
Pitiful! Even on his broadcasting death bed, Dirty Dan is still trying to 'get Bush' with this.
Still trying to turn GW's sucesses in Iraq into 'George Bush's Viet Nam'. What a pathetic, sick, miserable old bastard Rather is.
But I thought that stuff floated....
Makes one wonder how much the networks got away with prior to the internet...........
Actually, the NRA crowd understands media bias the best.
Welcome to the party.
That is just a tremendous error. I guess for the left Vietnam has never ended, and will never end. But I would like to know about this man's father, who certainly couldn't BE his father, had he died in Vietnam.
Rather will be lucky to get off the stage with an iota of dignity left. Get the hook! I'm deeply saddened.
Nah. Whales eat dolphin, and look what's been happening to them lately..... :-)
CBS needs to be freeped.
Actually, it should be the Rather era ended on a low frequency.
It already was, Coleus. It already was.
Excellent.
Yep. And it will.
CBS is planning to air a tribute to lontime TV anchorman Dan Rather. It will be a one-hour special honoring over 40 yeras of Dan's most memorable lies!
To match the level of his integrity.
You just don't understand. This is the same man that was using MS Word back in the 70's!
...rather...whoo?????.....
...rather...whoo?????.....
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