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Dan Rather: The final days
Pittsburg Live ^ | September 18, 2004 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 09/18/2004 12:46:08 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

"I gave them a sword, and they ran it right through me," said Richard Nixon. Thirty years later, Nixon nemesis Dan Rather might say the same of the blunders that are about to bring an inglorious end to his long career. What -- other than blind bias against George Bush rooted in animus or ideology, or an obduracy bred of arrogance and hubris -- can explain Rather's near-suicidal behavior since his "60 Minutes II" segment aired Sept. 8?

In that piece, Rather revealed four newly discovered memos from the "personal file" of Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, Bush's squadron commander in the National Guard. The memos seemed proof that Killian thought Bush a shirker whose defiance of orders was being protected by higher-ups such as Col. "Buck" Stoudt.

Rather thought he had a story that could bring down a president. Instead, he has ravaged the reputation of CBS News and made of himself a cartoon caricature of liberal bias. How could Rather have been so stubborn and blind?

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To: Jim Noble
sons of Congressmen or Senators

I was in SEA in 1968. Somehow a rumor started in my unit that my father was a US Senator.
The only "special" treatment I got, was ass chewings when I deserved them,
and promotions when I deserved those.

61 posted on 09/18/2004 6:45:55 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Tourette's syndrome is just a $&#$*!% excuse for poor *%$#** language skills.)
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To: ASA Vet
I was in SEA in 1968. Somehow a rumor started in my unit that my father was a US Senator. The only "special" treatment I got, was ass chewings when I deserved them, and promotions when I deserved those.

If you had ever run across a real "fortunate son", you would know what I am talking about.

No knock on W, just a reality check.

62 posted on 09/18/2004 6:49:49 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Hillary becomes the RAT candidate on October 9. You saw it here first.)
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To: CWOJackson
In many places it sounds like buchanan speaking about himself. They should both just go quietly...perhaps open a Deli somewhere together.

You're saying they should go sell bologna someplace else?

63 posted on 09/18/2004 7:18:25 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: AmericanMade1776
"How could Rather have been so stubborn and blind?"

I am reminded of the riddle of the 'Snows of Kilimanjaro.' A leopard is frozen to death near the top of the mountain, in tact, with no sign of a struggle. The riddle was how could this cat, one of the smarter creatures of the animal kingdom, merely freeze to death?

The answer was that cat was very hungry and in its zeal to satisfy its appetite, it lost track of its other senses and merely froze to death.

Dan Blather's very long hatred of the Bush family caused him to lose track of his senses, whatever ones he had!
64 posted on 09/18/2004 7:23:59 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: AmericanMade1776

Nixon's Justice...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1216159/posts


65 posted on 09/18/2004 7:28:56 AM PDT by FlyingFish
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To: eeriegeno

According to another thread, Rather is also the "Managing Editor" of CBS News, which means HE is the decision-maker who decides what is news.


66 posted on 09/18/2004 7:40:41 AM PDT by get'emall (Kofi Annan: Lawn Jockey on the Arab Street.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

That's the irony of Buchanan...he has been (in the past) a brilliant journalist and commentator, but he's always been a horrible politician.


67 posted on 09/18/2004 7:44:05 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Tom_Busch
I do not think Rather thought it would turn out this way, I think Rather thought the forged documents would be taken as truth, and the forged memos would upset the Presidential Election.

If Rather thought he would of gotten caught, he would not of done it.

68 posted on 09/18/2004 7:59:54 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: AmericanMade1776

Somewhere in the Nixon Library, a ghostly figure stalks the halls, chuckling quietly, and musing,"Now you're the one running, Dan."


69 posted on 09/18/2004 9:32:46 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: CWOJackson

Pat will say whatever is going to make more money for him.


70 posted on 09/18/2004 9:34:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: A6M3
I would like to wish dan rather (his name is not worthy of capitalization) a happy and glorious hiri-kiri. Hopefully it will be on his last 60 minutes broadcast. Maybe he can get walter com-crite to be his second.

I kind of hope the guy goes on as his audience wanes into the single digit thousands nationally and consists entirely of morons as he continues on deluding himself that he's anything but an angry old geezer who's life of malice, spite, and angry-man reporting. That should sink CBS pretty good. Heck, why get him outta there to replace him with some other lib with a hidden agenda yet that relates to some people. By the way, does anyone have any footage from Rather's report the night of the 2000 election. I have to say, when he thought that Bush had won Florida and then he got the news thag "Gore had actually won it" later on that evening, if that moment didn't paint the picture as to how biased he is, then I don't know what does. I'm tellin' ya, anyone with access to it coupled with the ability to put it in a stream, it'll paint a very clear picture of Rather's bias.

71 posted on 09/18/2004 9:55:38 AM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: sargon
Pat has clearly stated that, despite their differences in opinion, he will still be voting for Bush...

PJB recently stated that he was undecided between Bush and Peroutka.
I think he said that on Scarborough, sometime within the past week or so.

72 posted on 09/18/2004 11:46:10 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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To: wildbill
Close as I could get to find a pic of the Ghost of Nixon.


73 posted on 09/18/2004 2:33:13 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Dandy Dan has no credibility left when it comes to anything, PERIOD!

Dan is now a laughing stock and CBS news will never recover from little Dannys' handy work.

But he's a big time "journalist", right?

No, he's not, what he really is, is a partisan hack and a moronic simpleton. A perfect example of todays new democrat and a symptom of what has gone horribly wrong in America and in Amercian politics.

74 posted on 09/18/2004 2:51:08 PM PDT by Bullish (Tick... Tick...Tick...Tick...)
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To: AmericanMade1776

cool idea.


75 posted on 09/18/2004 2:57:12 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: ASA Vet

"I was in SEA in 1968. Somehow a rumor started in my unit that my father was a US Senator.
The only "special" treatment I got, was ass chewings when I deserved them,
and promotions when I deserved those.
"

The actual sons of senators/congressmen would have their preferential treatment come from above - I am not sure why people don't think that the army is going to go out of its way to avoid getting the son of that congressman who votes on their money killed.


76 posted on 09/19/2004 11:08:45 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: WoofDog123

my above comment should read 'armed forces' rather than just army, but my point remains...

my take on the media is that they probably push frauds and forgeries pretty often, but only get caught when they either do something realllly flagrant under a LOT of scrutiny (the rather memos were way too high profile to push such bad efforts) or they take on a Big-Gun company who can go head to head with them, such as GM vs GE/NBC in the early 90's.

More than anything, I am baffled at the quality of the forgeries. A very small investment of time would have produced memos with identical typewriter key-type to the extant documents from that unit, which despite other irregularities might have sufficed to keep this from becoming a national story.

For those who want to buy into the Rove paranoia theories, sadly it is the gross incompetence of the forger that most supports it. This must be doing tremendous damage to kerry's prospects.


77 posted on 09/19/2004 11:15:56 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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