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Would 'Rathergate' Make a Good Movie? Hollywood Insiders Working on Screen Adaptation
New York Observer ^ | July 21, 2008 | Felix Gillette

Posted on 07/22/2008 7:33:36 AM PDT by abb

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To: Buckhead

If Mapes is willing to admit that the documents are forgeries (saying that they are fake but accurate in details discussed), WHO FORGED THEM? WHO CONNECTED THE FORGER TO THE DNC AND THE MEDIA?

There is a conspiracy afoot and it isn’t the one she rails about “shutting down” CBS’s phony story.


41 posted on 07/22/2008 9:06:38 AM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: netmilsmom

Casting Mr. Marsden as me would exceed the bounds of creative license.


42 posted on 07/22/2008 9:10:42 AM PDT by Buckhead
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To: Buckhead

Well, I was amused.
Perhaps the man could not get it because he is too high brow for Austin Powers....


43 posted on 07/22/2008 9:12:14 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold/ titanium alloy))
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To: Buckhead

>>Casting Mr. Marsden as me would exceed the bounds of creative license.<<

Oh come on. If he can pull off Cyclops, he can do you!
;-).


44 posted on 07/22/2008 9:13:23 AM PDT by netmilsmom (I am Iron Mom. (but really made from Gold/ titanium alloy))
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To: puroresu
"But it’ll probably portray Rather & Mapes as being victims of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, if recent Hollywood history is an indicator."

Got it in one. This is the start of the mainstream media to rewrite history, painting Rather and Mapes as the victims of the "huge right-wing conspiracy".

45 posted on 07/22/2008 9:21:28 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Grampa Dave

You are too funny GD. roflmao


46 posted on 07/22/2008 9:25:52 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Buckhead
But it did not make it into any of the stories, at least that I can recall.

LOL, that was funny. I am surprised the LA Times did not run with that. It probably fit their profile. The LA Times actually quoted one of my posts in a story, ironically it concerned you. I jokingly stated that I never saw Buckhead and Rove in the same room, and they took it as if I really believed Buckhead = Rove.

47 posted on 07/22/2008 9:40:10 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: abb

These undead zombies just won’t go away!!!

They need to be crushed, once and for all. The MSM has protected them to an extraordinary degree, so that even though much of the blogosphere knows what a total crock their ‘factual’ story was, much of the public and media do not really know much about it all.

Rather and Mapes have still gotten away with the crime of the century, even though they are no longer at CBS — they did not receive the comprehensive destruction they deserved and they are still being taken seriously by moonbats and Hollyweird freaks.


48 posted on 07/22/2008 9:44:28 AM PDT by Enchante (OBAMESSIAH: "Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain!")
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To: Always Right
I jokingly stated that I never saw Buckhead and Rove in the same room, and they took it as if I really believed Buckhead = Rove.

OMG! You mean it really isn't true?!?!

49 posted on 07/22/2008 9:51:37 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

"I'm Karlrove!"

50 posted on 07/22/2008 10:13:19 AM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: abb
Wow! Are they going to talk about how Burkett and Joe Lockhart met? Are they going to talk about how the DNC film "Fortunate Son" and the CBS News piece ran in a practically coordinated way?

-PJ

51 posted on 07/22/2008 10:19:53 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Political Junkie Too
There are numerous cases of collusion between Democrat politicians and the media in the 2004 and 2006 elections.

Pravda was a more transparent business operation.

52 posted on 07/22/2008 10:28:38 AM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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To: weegee

I used to think the Drive-By Media was the PR department for the DNC. I’m not so sure anymore.

It might be the other way around. The Democrat party seems to be the political arm of the Drive-By Media and the Liberal Intelligentsia.


53 posted on 07/22/2008 10:33:43 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Buckhead

RFLOL! Excellent!


54 posted on 07/22/2008 10:36:33 AM PDT by Shelayne (Given the choice between the buffoon and the grumpy old man, I'll take the old man anyday!)
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To: abb; PJ-Comix
I say, make it a musical:

THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE DAN AWAY
Tune: "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haaa!"

Remember when I broke the news
How Bush got in the Guard
And didn't have to leave
To go to Vietnam?
Well . . .

I pushed that story hard
Just weeks before Election Day
And so of course you know
The thoughts I had in my mind
Like . . .

They're going to give me a prize, Ha-ha!
They're going to give me a prize, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a journalist
Who helps the Democrats all the time
And I'll be happy to put
That nice award
In my trophy case
And they're going to give me a prize, Ha-haaa!

You thought it was a fake
And so you cringed
You cringed when people said
That superscript was not done at that time
Right . . .

The people laughed, I heard them laugh
They laughed, they laughed and laughed
You made me leave
But now you know I'm Rather upset!
So . . .

I'm going to take you to court, Ha-ha!
I'm going to take you to court, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a tidy sum
Like six--no, seventy million bucks
And put me back on the Evening News
And make all the viewers watch
And I'm going to take you to court, Ha-haaa!

I read your news
I gave my views
And this is how you pay me back
For all my years of bold unbiased news?!
Hah . . .

Well, you just wait
I'll find the proof
And when I do
They'll know that Dan is not some sort of old unbalanced nut!
'Cause . . .

They're coming to take me away, Ha-ha!
They're coming to take me away, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the anchor desk
With lights and cameras and breaking news
And four producers who sit and smile
And tell me that I'm the best
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

55 posted on 07/22/2008 11:17:57 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (The wag tailoring the doggerel)
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To: SevenofNine

lol internet...movies

couple of threads up:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049370/posts


56 posted on 07/22/2008 2:19:58 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: KarlInOhio
“It would be like a movie about the Secret Service taking down a pack of kindergarten counterfeiters who draw their money with crayons.”

But Americans love stories where the righteous underdog comes out on top. Too bad this movie will almost certainly rewrite history to reverse the roles.

57 posted on 07/22/2008 5:58:12 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: denydenydeny

“Leftists are at perpetual war with reality, which is why they gravitate toward newsrooms, universities, and entertainment media.”


Nicely put. Deserves repetition.


58 posted on 07/22/2008 6:01:39 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: abb
“I used to think the Drive-By Media was the PR department for the DNC. I’m not so sure anymore.

It might be the other way around. The Democrat party seems to be the political arm of the Drive-By Media and the Liberal Intelligentsia.”


Nice to see someone else has come to the same conclusion. I have made that point several times myself!
59 posted on 07/22/2008 6:05:49 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: abb

Hollywood just loves to rewrite history.


60 posted on 07/22/2008 6:07:12 PM PDT by kempo
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