Dan Rather on Memogate: ‘No Question The Story Was True’

newsbusters.org ^ | 12-10-2013 | Noel Sheppard

[servo1969]

Former CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather, despite being fired as a result of the bogus story, continues to maintain that he got it right in September 2004 when he aired forged documents concerning George W. Bush’s record with the Air National Guard.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Live Monday, Rather said, “No question the story was true” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

[video]

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Let's turn quickly to what’s been going on at CBS, your old network. Your former colleague, Lara Logan, on leave of absence over this report from Benghazi. Many people believe there’s a slight double standard at CBS in the way that you were treated in terms of the way you departed from CBS, and the way that Lara Logan has been treated, and the way they handled this crisis. What do you think?

DAN RATHER: Well, first of all, CBS News has a lot to answer for this. There are a lot of questions. They have answered some of them. I don't want to in any way to add to their burden. I know what it feels like to be the correspondent who is the center of controversy when there are people both above and below you [unintelligible.]

But I will make this point: with our story, the one that led to our difficulty, no question the story was true. What the complaint and, while we, eventually most of us lost our jobs, was, okay, your story was true, but the way you got to the truth was flawed. The process was flawed. That’s not the case with the Benghazi story. Unfortunately – and there’s no joy in saying it - they were taken in by a man who was a fraud.

The dishonesty here is extraordinary.

The documents Rather presented that fateful night in September 2004 were clearly forgeries. Not one person has come forward since proving they weren't.

Yet here he is nine years later saying on national television, "No question the story was true."

And Morgan didn't challenge him at all.

Is this really what passes for journalism in our country today?

[South40]

Oh, but Hussein is a great leader, don’t cha know.

[Bullish]

Journalists?

Morgan and Rather are no journalists.

[Bullish]

Buckhead?

[mylife]

But he gets no blow back.

What’s the common denominator?

MSM and the entrenched political machine.

[Bullish]

She looka-like-a-man.

[laplata]

She looka-like-a-man.
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I’d bet she prefers women, too.

[logi_cal869]

I’m so done with this (this got me banned back then), I only have one pertinent comment:

If the media put 1/10th that effort in vetting the current POTUS/POS...

Cliché, I know, and probably parroting other comments.

Yada, yada...

And Algore comes out every once in awhile to say, “See? I told you so!” and goes back to his hole, too...

[fella]

Juvenile delinquent rule #1:

When you get caught. . . .Deny, deny, deny, never confess.

[Yosemitest]

VILE and EVIL define the reprobate Dan Rather.

FOR THE RECORD: CBS Memos Controversy on Free Republic Saturday September 18, 17:26:50 GMT-0500 2004 by Howlin

Live Thread: Ben Barnes and CBS Attempt Another Bush Smear (60 Minutes) Wednesday September 08, 18:39:19 GMT-0500 2004 by Howlin

Man Behind Bush AWOL Charge Is John Edwards Supporter Thursday February 05, 08:11:59 GMT-0600 2004 by Hon

Debunking The Bush AWOL Story - From The Horse's Mouth Friday February 06, 17:58:29 GMT-0600 2004 by Hon

The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane' Sunday February 08, 14:31:08 GMT-0600 2004 by kennedy

QUESTION: Link To Original First Thread Of Bush Document Where FR Debunked It? Sunday November 13, 12:29:46 GMT-0600 2011 by Yosemitest

[Darksheare]

” Is this really what passes for journalism in our country today?”

Sadly, yes.
“Journists” see themselves as “shapers of opinion”.
Nothing else matters to them beyond that.

[Cowboy Bob]

The Liberals never give up and never accept defeat. Rather will keep on repeating the lie until it is eventually accepted as the truth.

The Liberals are always telling others to “move on,” but they themselves can never let go. It took them 100 years to pass government controlled healthcare (ObamaCare). It will probably end up destroying the Democrat party, but they will never admit it.

After numerous defeats in the courts and in Congress, the Liberals are still pressing ahead on gun control.

You can never compromise with a liberal. That will only be the starting point for their next push. The only way to stop a liberal is to completely destroy them. The republicans should go after the Democrats on ObamaCare and pursue anyone who has ever spoken in favor of ObamaCare. These people should be chased out of the public domain (politics or the media) forever.

[Yosemitest]

"Are the Killian Memos Fakes?" Thursday September 09, 08:42:07 GMT-0500 2004 by Sue Bob

" The Globe story is itself based on last night's 60 Minutes report: "New questions on Bush Guard duty." The online version of the 60 Minutes story has links to the memos. Killian died in 1984; CBS states that it "consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic." Reader Tom Mortensen writes:

Every single one of the memos to file regarding Bush's failure to attend a physical and meet other requirements is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing (especially in the military), and typewriters used mono-spaced fonts.

The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction high-end word processing systems from Xerox and Wang, and later of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's.

Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang and other systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used mono-spaced fonts. I doubt the TANG had typesetting or high-end 1st generation word processing systems.

I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. This should be pursued aggressively. "

[Yo-Yo]

STFU Dan Ra^thther.

[Yosemitest]

Holding Rather's feet to the fire Sunday September 19, 08:25:33 GMT-0500 2004 by JudyB1938

Although Free Republic isn't credited in this article, it is a good recap of RatherGate.

[RichInOC]

Dear Dan:

Cool story, bro.

Best,
Rich

[Yosemitest]

CORRECTION: Forgot to add link.
This is intentionally blown up so we can read it,
and it might be wise to save a copy of this image to your computer, just in case the VILE Democrats decide to scrub the image from the internet.
The Paper Trail: A Comparison of Documents

The Paper Trail: A Comparison of Documents

Dozens of inconsistencies are revealed by a side-by-side comparison of memos unearthed by CBS News
with officially released memos signed by President Bush's commander in the Texas Air National Guard,
Lt Col. Jerry B. Killian.

Font experts say that the CBS memos, left were almost certainly written using modern word-processing software,
in contrast to the previously released memos, right, which were written on a typewriter.
Differences appear in the use of fonts, proportionate spacing and Air Force jargon and memo-writing etiquette.
In addition, the writer of the CBS memos has used an out-of-date address for Bush and referred to an officer who has retired from the Texas Air National Guard.
Experts have reproduced almost exact replicas of the CBS memos using Microsoft Word
but have not been able to produce similar replicas on any typewriter that would have been available in 1973.

-Michael Dobbs

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[ScottinVA]

Once a respected newsman... now just an old, pathetic nutcase. If ever there was a reason to banish someone to the Old Liberals’ Retirement Home, this is it. Dan’s dementia is showing and he’s wandering again. someone needs to give him his meds and get him back to his cell.

[Smokin' Joe]

Is this really what passes for journalism in our country today?

But, you see, this isn't about journalism. It is so that when the time comes that someone does a post-mortem on this mess, the preponderance of "evidence" will be lies. It is the preemptive skewing of the record so that even if the truth cannot be purged, it can be buried in a dungheap of nonsense, and that nonsense will prevail as the myth known as 'history'.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Watched this unravel the night it happened. Freeper “Buckhead” fired first shot and it all went viral after that. Rather and his lying b&$ch Mary Mapes couldn’t get the toothpaste back in the tube after that