Another phoney, claiming to have been a Marine:
“Rather’s voice started quivering, and he told me how in his young days, he had signed up with the Marines – not once, but twice!”
This is not the first time Rather has hid behind the flag and his own military service claims to deflect criticism of his reporting, Burkett said.
Burkett added that Rather is greatly exaggerating his record. First, Burkett says, Rather “misspoke” when he claimed he signed up for the Marines twice. He didn’t.
And Burkett is flabbergasted that Rather continues to proudly describe himself as a “Marine.”
“What he did, he signed up for the military twice, not the Marines,” Burkett said after thoroughly reviewing Rather’s military records.
But Burkett notes that Rather “never got through Marine recruit training because he couldn’t do the physical activity.”
Rather ‘Unfit’
As Burkett explains in “Stolen Valor,” Rather “was discharged less than four months later on May 11, 1954 for being medically unfit.” As a boy, Rather had suffered from rheumatic fever.
“This is like a guy who flunks out of Harvard running around saying he went to Harvard,” Burkett said.
Burkett also believes that, far from being a gung-ho military enlistee, Rather’s record shows he deftly avoiding entering the military during the Korean War.
Burkett says that Rather was a student at Sam Houston University at a time during the Korean War when “you could be drafted right out of college,” with deferments available only short term, for a semester.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/15/205545.shtml
I want to take this oppurtunity to clear something up. I have been in the White House but I was never really the President Of The United States.
He's a fine man.
The only flag Blather hides behind is red, with a cicle and hammer on it. It has no blue in it. It is simply the soviet socialist communist flag he so loves and adores. Why he has not moved in with Castro is beyond me. He so loves him. Maybe he is going down to Red Vena and live with Chevez.