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The truth behind Dan Rather’s exit from CBS
NY Post ^ | July 20, 2015

Posted on 07/20/2015 8:25:25 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Dan Rather is coming to your local movie theater. At least the story behind why he’s no longer at CBS is. In “Truth,” Robert Redford plays Rather. Cate Blanchett plays his CBS producer Mary Mapes.

In 2004, Rather reported that President George W. Bush’s powerful father arranged to keep his son in the National Guard to prevent serving in Vietnam. The report caused such hoo-hah that a treasured 24-year anchorman lost his job.

Dan: “I’ve read the script. It’s serious. People behind it do a good job. It’s two great actors. You couldn’t want for a better cast. Redford playing me makes me feel humble — which is not a word usually associated with anchors.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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TRUTH is the title of the movie.

Ironic as it is entirely based on a lie Rather reported as truth and was debunked on these pages.

They still won't admit it's b.s.

George W. has become this generation's Nixon. He's the man blamed for everything for 20 years after he left office.

1 posted on 07/20/2015 8:25:25 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Brian Williams insists he wrote the screenplay for this movie.


2 posted on 07/20/2015 8:27:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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To: TigerClaws; Buckhead; TankerKC

Who plays Buckhead and TankerKC?


3 posted on 07/20/2015 8:28:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: TigerClaws

If Robert Redford, the washed up former pretty bou cum tree hugger, is in this movie, it’s crap. I won’t go near it.


4 posted on 07/20/2015 8:28:47 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: TigerClaws

Dan Rather can’t handle the truth. He is living a lie and has been ever since he fell for this scam.


5 posted on 07/20/2015 8:29:12 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: TigerClaws

He just won’t stop until he has disgraced himself again and again and again and again.

Get a clue, Dan. No one cares about Bush anymore. They don’t even care about you anymore.


6 posted on 07/20/2015 8:29:27 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: TigerClaws; Buckhead; TankerKC; All; Freeper

And a cast of 1,000’s.


7 posted on 07/20/2015 8:30:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: TigerClaws

Anything to do with Dan Rather or Robert Redford is trash, a waste of money, and better time could be had taking your family to the local park....


8 posted on 07/20/2015 8:31:20 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: TigerClaws

Robert Redford is paying Dan Rather? How much did Rather pay for that?


9 posted on 07/20/2015 8:31:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Dan Rather approves of the movie, therefore it will be utter nonsense.

In order to keep him happy, it would either have to portray the fake memos as authentic or to portray a conspiracy in which the GOP plants fake memos to discredit him.

10 posted on 07/20/2015 8:32:21 PM PDT by wideawake
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How appropriate.... Truth. The russian word= PRAVDA. And you know only true latter day bolsheviks could wrap themselves around a movie that re-writes and re-promotes the absolutely proven LIE that is Dan Rather.

You know, no one wants to touch the analysis by world experts on obamaumaos bc... that it simply can. not. be.

Because that too, would be the real truth.


11 posted on 07/20/2015 8:34:40 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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What’s the frequency?


12 posted on 07/20/2015 8:38:20 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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“At least the story behind why he’s no longer at CBS is.”

Shouldn't this read, “At least A story behind why he’s no longer at CBS is.

I seem to recomemeber there were at least four or three tales of what "really" happened floating around.

13 posted on 07/20/2015 8:38:43 PM PDT by Tupelo (I feel more like Phillip Nolan every day.)
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To: TigerClaws

Fake but Truth


14 posted on 07/20/2015 8:41:13 PM PDT by tinyowl (penguin in transition)
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...but Cate Blanchett is pretty.

If Rather is being played by Robert Redford, and Mary Mapes is being played by, um, anyone who doesn’t look like her, not to put too fine a point on it, then Buckhead will be played by Anthony Hopkins, if they can get his mask from the other studio.


15 posted on 07/20/2015 8:41:14 PM PDT by InMemoriam (Scrape the bottom! Vote for Rodham!)
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Let me guess...

Coming to a theater near you, October of 2016


16 posted on 07/20/2015 8:42:36 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (I will give "Marriage Equality" the same respect the left gives to the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: TigerClaws

Dan “Rather-Not-Tell-You-The-Truth” wants us to know the “truth”?

Just like Walter Cronkite told us the “truth” every night during the Vietnam War?

OK. I believe it. (No, I don’t)

BTW: W was in the AIR National Guard (Air Force). Not the National Guard (Army). These clowns can never even get that right.

I knew a lot of guys who served in the ANG, NG, USMCR, Coast Guard Reserves and other branches, who never served in RVN. They were all from blue-collar families and none of them had any political connections.

The notion that W could have only been in the ANG because his daddy was connected, doesn’t wash.


17 posted on 07/20/2015 8:45:48 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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To: TigerClaws

And they’ll blame W for this stinker of a movie being one of the biggest flops of all time.

Remember-I called it.


18 posted on 07/20/2015 8:47:25 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.)
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Why would someone make a movie about this? It just doesn’t seem that interesting.


19 posted on 07/20/2015 8:55:41 PM PDT by BlopAndStop
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“........... a treasured 24-year anchorman......”

Bwaaaa-haaa-haa-ha! I can hardly wait to miss it.


20 posted on 07/20/2015 8:56:51 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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