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So, Do We Get to Call Dan Rather a Liar?
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| September 21, 2004
| Frank Salvato
Posted on 09/21/2004 8:26:13 AM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay
This is perfect. Right on the money.
To: RogerFGay
You may call him whatever you want. personally I have called him a lot of other things over the years and will continue to do so. At 72 years old this is likely the last election year we will have to deal with this media enemy regardless.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:22:32 AM PDT
by
bilhosty
To: RogerFGay
Dan Rather can lie about any number things and still be a reputable journalist. =)
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:22:55 AM PDT
by
WileyC
To: RogerFGay
No....he is a LIBERAL......only INTENTIONS count. He did NOT LIE......because he MEANT WELL!
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:24:11 AM PDT
by
PISANO
(NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
To: RogerFGay
When cooperating in being duped, relax and enjoy it.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:25:00 AM PDT
by
dr huer
To: Conspiracy Guy
I call Blather a pinhead.
To: Shryke
OH...so Rather is 'truth challenged'...I understand now. :)
Red
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:33:23 AM PDT
by
Conservative4Ever
(With Rather doing all this backpedaling...he should be wearing pedal pushers.)
To: sheik yerbouty
Nick name for Richard Head is more like it.
See my new tag.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:35:48 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Dan Rather, "I lied, but I lied about the truth".)
To: RogerFGay
Call him a crook for trying to steal an election.
He'll get the reference, and it will drive him bananas.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
mabelkitty
(Watch for a CBS employee in a trench coat going by DeepWord.....)
To: RogerFGay
Why stop with liar, self absorbed, clueless, selfgrandizer or ego maniac.
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:41:30 AM PDT
by
fritzz
(Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton)
To: RogerFGay
What's the Amplitude, Daniel?
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:42:44 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Kerry campaign - Advancing swiftly rearward through a series of calculated blunders.)
To: RogerFGay; All
So, Do We Get to Call Dan Rather a Liar?
September 21, 2004
by Frank Salvato
Now that management at CBS has concluded that Dan Rather and the crew at CBS News were duped into the Memogate scandal yes Im calling it a scandal I have one question for the liberal left and the equally liberally biased media, do I get to call Dan Rather a liar?
It may seem a little harsh for people to go around calling poor Dan a liar; after all, he was fed bad information. It would seem just a bit unfair to call him a liar when he was simply acting in good faith, trusting those that surrounded him professionally, his allies as it were. In fact, the responsible thing to do would be to examine how information so absurd, documents so tainted, could end up being accepted as truthful. In an effort to learn from the mistakes made it would seem a wise thing to find out where the weakest link exists so the defective fact verification procedure might be corrected, never to happen again. I am sure that CBS News, the responsible news organization that it is, will do just that, right after they impale the scapegoats head onto the stake out in front of CBS News headquarters for all to see.
As the golden chairs at CBS finally come clean with the American public about the actualities of Memogate and isnt it time we stop attaching the suffix gate to every scandal that comes to pass? I couldnt help but make a parallel distinction between the CBS memo scandal and another scandal that took place not too long ago.
How is it that the liberal left and the mainstream media can so introspectively examine the flawed process at CBS News, a process that gave us pathetically forged documents designed to smear George W. Bushs Air National Guard service, and then turn around and embrace those who call President Bush a liar about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Arent the situations exactly the same? President Bush, the CIA, British Intelligence and even the United Nations were fed bad information on the capabilities of Saddam Husseins weapons programs yet the president has been continuously called a liar because he trusted information given to him by organizations that were supposed to give him reliable information. What Mary Mapes is to Dan Rather, the CIA, British Intelligence and the information from the UN were to President Bush. Yet Dan Rather was duped and President Bush is a liar. There just seems to be a certain inequity about the difference.
This, however, is where the two scandals part ways when it comes to how they get reported in the non-biased mainstream news media.
While the alphabet networks and their bomb-throwing counterparts in the print media inundate us with every detail about CBSs memo scandal it is interesting to see that information invalidating Terry McAuliffes claim that President Bush is a liar goes unreported. As we read, listen and watch we are bombarded with information about every detail of Bill Burketts disgruntled life. Meanwhile, it goes unreported at least in the United States that the Italian businessman who supplied the bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger admitted that he was in the pay of France. Hhmm
interesting.
The Telegraph, an British publication, reports that Rocco Martino or Giacomo as he was known in the clandestine circles admitted to Italian magistrates that he was commissioned by the French government to produce and circulate the documents used by the US and Britain in their case for removing Saddam Hussein from power. It is suggested by some Italian diplomats that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade yellowcake uranium from Niger, France was trying to set up Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent. By any standards this would make Rocco Martino the equivalent to Bill Burkett, Dan Rather the equivalent to the CIA and the American people the equivalent to President Bush.
So, it would seem that we are at a philosophical crossroads. Do we continue to allow Terry McAuliffe and his McAulinistras to call President Bush a liar when he was fed bad information while we accept that Dan Rather was duped? Or do we demand an end to the deception, the double-standard, and chastise Terry and the boys for being so incredibly partisan as to use slanderous rhetoric when talking about the President of the United States while embracing those who would forge documents for personal and political gain, all in the name of acquiring power?
Through it all one thing is abundantly obvious. No matter who is reporting what, it is pretty clear who the liars are.
Frank Salvato
Copyright © 2004 Frank Salvato
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:43:45 AM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(I am, thnk God, a hyphenated American: An AMERICAN-American - AND a Dollar-a-Day FReeper! 2XBlessed!)
To: MistyCA
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posted on
09/21/2004 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
wizr
(Without the War on Terror, you only have the Terror. Ask a Russian.)
To: Brian Allen
Whew... thank you for the formatting. It was a little &rsquoodd&rsquo reading it before.
To: RogerFGay
How about
Pschotic Babbling Liar
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posted on
09/21/2004 10:43:30 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
To: Brian Allen
thanks for reformatting that.
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posted on
09/21/2004 12:27:50 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(civilization is a veneereal disease)
To: RogerFGay
Liar, scumbag.... whatever. He's done.
To: js1138
Try to avoid posting HTML directly from your browser source. It doesn't dislpay correctly on other browsers.
The browser isn´t the problem.
To: RogerFGay
The browser is the problem. I suspect you are getting your source using Mozilla or firefox, then pasting it into the thread.
Major web sites do not send the same HTML to everybody. They customize it for your browser. It doesn't work on other browsers.
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posted on
09/22/2004 4:06:22 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
To: Brian Allen
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