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| 9/21/07
| Byron York
Posted on 09/21/2007 9:24:02 AM PDT by Jean S
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To: bill1952
But his lawyers are not. This was not done out of insanityThe lawyers are perfectly rational to enrich themselves off of Dan Rather. Lots of billable hours here.
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posted on
09/21/2007 10:18:38 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary 2008: "The willing suspension of disbelief")
To: JeanS
Perhaps you were unaware of CBS News’s unwavering support of George W. Bush. I certainly was. I would bet that the White House was, too. Apparently, we all were.
To: JeanS
Byron York seems to be a bit rusty on some details. Although claims were made that President Bush got preferential treatment to get into the guard, that wasn’t the point of Rather’s forged documents, but rather to “prove” he got away with not fulfilling his duties later on while in the guard.
To: goldstategop
Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, is still really, really mad about losing his job in the wake of the George W. Bush/Air National Guard/phony documents story.Wonderful, isn't it?
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posted on
09/21/2007 10:23:58 AM PDT
by
Wil H
(Turning $1000 into $100,000 through cattle futures requires the "willing suspension of disbelief")
To: Yo-Yo
I can hardly wait to see Katie’s ‘reporting’ on THIS story!
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posted on
09/21/2007 10:30:09 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
To: sauropod
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posted on
09/21/2007 10:31:08 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(You can’t spell crap without the AP in it.)
To: NeoCaveman
To: JeanS
CBS is in an awkward situation here.
I have no doubt that they can come up with lots of evidence that there was a conspiracy to perpetrate a fraud, and that Dan Rather was in the middle of it, but that is likely to expand the scope of a problem that they thought they had swept under the rug.
This should be fun to watch.
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posted on
09/21/2007 11:20:41 AM PDT
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: JeanS
Aired at the height of the 2004 presidential campaign, Rather reported that Bush received preferential treatment to get into the Guard during the Vietnam era. That was a different story, but the trouble with lies is that it's difficult to keep them all straight.
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posted on
09/21/2007 11:24:57 AM PDT
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: 3niner
On one side, you’ll have Dan Rather arguing that the CBS News Bush Air National Guard report was legitimate.
And on the other side you’ll have CBS News arguing that the CBS News Bush Air National Guard report was … well, not legitimate.
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And Rather’s real goal of this lawsuit will come to fruition. Bush will be out of office and required/requested to testify!!!! Rather believes he (Rather) will then be exonerated.
To: crazyshrink
And on the other side you’ll have CBS News arguing that the CBS News Bush Air National Guard report was … well, not legitimate. I'm sure that CBS can easily do this, but they have to worry about providing evidence of their own culpability, so they will be "pulling their punches". It should be interesting.
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posted on
09/21/2007 1:25:19 PM PDT
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: crazyshrink
well, not legitimate
and thus they invented the new Orwellian doublespeak phrase, “fake but accurate.”
I’m not sure that Bush has to answer a civil proceeding subpoena
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posted on
09/21/2007 1:30:14 PM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: denydenydeny
I also believe that the date would be stamped, not typed.
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posted on
09/21/2007 1:36:52 PM PDT
by
bruin66
(Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
To: JeanS
Of course, it turned out the documents were phony, or at least impossible to verify. CBS retracted the story, and Rather apologized. No, there is no "at least".
They're fake. They're as fake as fake gets.
Claiming that a document produced with Microsoft Word in the Times New Roman proportional font came from a US military typewriter in 1971 is just good old-fashioned fake.
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posted on
09/21/2007 1:43:37 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
To: bill1952
Prolly not if he is sitting. But I am not sure about once he is out of office. I think Rather waited til now to try his luck.
To: JeanS
Dan Rather should be charged with fraud and jailed.
Dan Rather should be charged with forging U.S. military orders and jailed.
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posted on
09/21/2007 1:58:05 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: JeanS
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posted on
09/21/2007 2:11:55 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair dinkum!)
To: Fred Nerks
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posted on
09/21/2007 4:24:32 PM PDT
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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