Posted on 08/28/2009 5:23:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
Media Bias: Veteran reporter, author and commentator Bernard Goldberg reports that when CBS News did its fake National Guard story on George W. Bush avoiding service in Vietnam, it knew it was a lie.
The story collapsed quickly as documents used to support the allegations against Bush were proved to be amateur night forgeries. CBS did an internal investigation that discredited the memos and caused the network to fire Mapes. Later Dan Rather, who narrated the story, said that while the memos may not have been genuine, he was certain the story was. That was his story, and he stuck to it.
Retired Col. Ed Morrisey, the man who swore Bush into the Guard, told CBS affiliate WVLT in Knoxville, Tenn., a different story. "The Air Force, in their ultimate wisdom, assembled a group of F-102s and took them to Southeast Asia. Bush volunteered to go. But he needed to have 500 (flight) hours, but he had just over 300 hours, so he wasn't able to go," Morrisey said.
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Anyone who flies fighters wants to kick some ass. No one was drafted to fly fighters in Vietnam, they all wanted the assignment.
You know, as contemptuous as I am of the mainstream DNC press, I sometimes still grant them a shred of integrity. I assumed that they believed a fake story and believed their fake documents because it all fit their view of things and because they wanted to believe them that badly.
Now it turns out that even I give them way too much credit.
They lied, and they knew they were lying.
It was their hatred of President Bush. They could not get over that their heroes Al Gore and J F**king Kerry lost the elections in 2000 and 2004
Liberals are basically lawbreakers. The Constitution is the FIRST law of the land and every liberal wants to disobey it. They are a criminal class at heart!
this is old news i belive was on fr back when dan was show is a$$
Veteran reporter, author and commentator Bernard Goldberg reports that when CBS News did its fake National Guard story on George W. Bush avoiding service in Vietnam, it knew it was a lie. It's a liberal urban legend that Bush used the influence of his father and his father's friends to land a cushy position in the Texas National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam... The story collapsed quickly as documents used to support the allegations against Bush were proved to be amateur night forgeries. CBS did an internal investigation that discredited the memos and caused the network to fire Mapes. Later Dan Rather, who narrated the story, said that while the memos may not have been genuine, he was certain the story was... Retired Col. Ed Morrisey, the man who swore Bush into the Guard, told CBS affiliate WVLT in Knoxville, Tenn., a different story. "The Air Force, in their ultimate wisdom, assembled a group of F-102s and took them to Southeast Asia. Bush volunteered to go. But he needed to have 500 (flight) hours, but he had just over 300 hours, so he wasn't able to go," Morrisey said.
How about the story about a certain late senator who didn’t want to go to Korea so —under his father’s influence— was put in Paris instead?
Heh-heh. I won't hold my breath.
Why take an F102A into combat when it could kill a higher percentage of pilots in peace time than the F4 or F105 could do in combat?
Does CBS still exist as a network?/Sarcasm
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I remember the thread very well
“It was their hatred of President Bush. They could not get over that their heroes Al Gore and J F**king Kerry lost the elections in 2000 and 2004.”
I must agree. Their hatred of Bush was based upon the losses incurred by Gore and Kerry. It boils down to the Leftist crybabies didn’t get their way. They believed they had it all sewn up, and that it would be them from WJC on. Bush was the party crasher in their opinion.
They threw a tantrum. A childish tantrum at that.
iirc W's draft number was in the high 200's - mid 300's meaning he never would of been drafted anyway...
He wanted to be a pilot like his father was a pilot.
It’s as simple as that.
He also loves Texas.
Ergo, Texas Air National Guard.
Whatever else one wants to say about the man - good and bad, and it’s all been said right here on Free Republic...
Bush’s second term was a disaster
for the Republican party.
Why are people defending him?
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