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Dan Rather, Still in Denial: I Was Asked to Leave CBS for Telling 'Uncomfortable Truth' About Bush
Newsbusters.org ^ | 3-3-11 | Tim Graham

Posted on 03/03/2011 1:41:49 PM PST by Justaham

We're headed toward seven years since Dan Rather disgraced himself by running a story based on phony Texas Air National Guard documents to ruin George W. Bush on behalf of that "war hero" John Kerry. Rather has relentlessly presented himself as a pillar of truth and probity. Rather spoke on Tuesday night at the Newseum in Washington, DC to questions from Nick (Father of George) Clooney. Katy Adams and Nikki Schwab of the Washington Examiner's Yeas & Nays column reported Rather thinks he's the teller of uncomfortable truths, and the people objecting to phony documents are somehow the falsifiers and fantasists:

Clooney did take on the elephant in the room, though — Rather’s resignation from CBS News in 2005 for using bogus documents in a story about former President George W. Bush’s National Guard service. “We reported a story that was true, that was an uncomfortable truth for a lot of people,” Rather said. “As a result to that I was asked to leave the anchor chair, and eventually CBS News.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buckhead; rathergate; tankerkc
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1 posted on 03/03/2011 1:41:50 PM PST by Justaham
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To: Justaham

He’s loonier than Sheen.


2 posted on 03/03/2011 1:43:00 PM PST by Fledermaus (RINO'S no more! Defeat socialist in every party!)
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To: Justaham

No, Dan, you were fired because you were such a blatant stalking horse for the Democrat Party that no one could take your mouthings seriously. You should have been put in the stocks and subjected to the passing ridicule of your betters, but unfortunately we don’t do that any more.


3 posted on 03/03/2011 1:44:19 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Justaham

I thought the trainwreck was over.


4 posted on 03/03/2011 1:44:44 PM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Fledermaus
He’s loonier than Sheen.

Or Gaddafi!!!
5 posted on 03/03/2011 1:45:12 PM PST by Justaham
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To: kittymyrib
You should have been put in the stocks

LOL! This would be good for the economy as conservatives everywhere would be selling their extra tomatoes for the exercise and entertainment value it would have created.

6 posted on 03/03/2011 1:46:32 PM PST by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Justaham

Stuck on stupid.


7 posted on 03/03/2011 1:46:32 PM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Justaham

I didn’t know he’s still alive.....
(age 79 FWIW)


8 posted on 03/03/2011 1:47:07 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Justaham

Dan Rather - Buckhead’s bitch.


9 posted on 03/03/2011 1:47:26 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Justaham
He was asked to go for fabricating junk about President Bush.

Even in high school journalism we learned that if we had a story with the same genealogy of his information and sources, it wouldn't pass the smell test.

It was the "truth" as Rather wanted it.

10 posted on 03/03/2011 1:47:56 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: nascarnation

Loonier than Sheen.

Now that is seriously loony.


11 posted on 03/03/2011 1:49:00 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Justaham

Even for See-BS, Dan Rather was an embarrassment - which says a lot about both of them.


12 posted on 03/03/2011 1:49:02 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: Justaham

He has hot bangin sex with Gaddafi.


13 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:04 PM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: mlocher

Rather stupidly revealed himself to be a ‘’modern day certifed snot-faced, queer-bait, liberal’’ and got caught, simple as that.


14 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:07 PM PST by Waco (From Seward to Sara)
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To: Fledermaus

Obviously Dan Rather is a more dangerous drug than Charlie Sheen.


15 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:19 PM PST by RichInOC (...winning, anyone?)
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To: kittymyrib
“We reported a story that was true, that was an uncomfortable truth for a lot of people,” Rather said.

To which I would reply "...and it would have worked out really well for you too, if you hadn't used those OBVIOUSLY FAKED 'ORIGINAL' MEMOS to base your case on."

16 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:21 PM PST by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: Justaham

“I am not in denial!”


17 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:39 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Justaham
So “authenticated” documents from “unimpeachable sources”....

turns out to be non-authenticated copies that their own experts wouldn't sign off on, from ONE highly impeachable source.

And Gunga Dan makes himself out to be Mr. Truth teller?

Delusional!!!!

18 posted on 03/03/2011 1:50:57 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Justaham

How to be a hero for the Left: Get fired, indicted, investigated, deported, voted out of office, or pregnant. Ever notice how the lefties that get the biggest press are the ones no longer in office or on the news networks?


19 posted on 03/03/2011 1:52:13 PM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: Justaham

YOU BLEW YOUR ENTIRE REPUTATION REPORTING A STORY YOU KNEW WAS FALSE

AFTER YEARS OF BLATANT BIAS

YOU HAD TO KNOW BIASED FALSEHOODS ARE THE WORST SIN A NEWSCASTER CAN COMMIT, AND YET YOU COMPOUNDED THAT CRIME BY DOING IT TO TRY TO THROW AN ELECTION

BUH-BYE GUNGA DAN- YOU’RE A LIAR~!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 03/03/2011 1:52:28 PM PST by Mr. K (Job #1 is to DEFUND THE LEFT~!!!!)
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