Dan Rather’s Obsession

Commentary ^ | 12.10.2013 - 10:10 AM | Peter Wehner |

[Wingy]

It was a fun night. For some reason, I watched 60 Minutes that night and believed (hoped?) the story to be a fake, but simply because 1) It was Dan Rather, and 2) Bush was a fighter pilot that had volunteered to go to Vietnam. Not someone that would go AWOL.

Well before long Buckhead posted that he thought it was a fake story too, but he had better reasons than I did. All night long, posters piled on with more and more evidence that the docs were fake. It was a tour de force example of what Freepers could do to a fake story. As the night became early morning, other websites were posting the same thing, using the Free Republic posts as evidence to bolster their points. Such was the strength of the case that Freepers made that night.

Yes, it was a great night. I called into work the next day....Don't tell my boss.

[oldbill]

“Did it do superscript “th” too?”

No.
Some of the later Selectrics had a special character set on the ball for extra characters, like “th” and “st”, “rd”, and some special characters, like a degree “o” and a half=space up or down for subscript and super scripts.

[clearcarbon]

"After being fired in 2006, he filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its parent company, Viacom, claiming he had been made a “scapegoat,”

[Yosemitest]

Well, we all know he's a goat, alright, and a goat of destruction, at that.

[Oatka]

Dan Ra^ther, he of the "fake but accurate" defense.