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Dan Rather Outspoken: Still Battling CBS News (Now Claims Rathergate Dcuments Were Genuine)
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| Apr 30, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
| Lloyd Grove
Posted on 05/01/2012 6:47:53 AM PDT by MindBender26
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To: MindBender26
And he proved with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist!
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:23:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: MindBender26
I believe them to be genuine ... I did at the time, I did in the immediate aftermath of it, and yes, I do now."
Is it no wonder that Liberalism is defined as a mental disease?
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:25:03 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: MindBender26
This pic is no fake. It was taken during his trip to Cuba.
>
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:25:20 AM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: MindBender26
I believe them to be genuine, he tells The Daily Beast, holding forth in his corner office at his weekly HDNet magazine program, Dan Rather Reports, in a musty old building off Times Square. I did at the time, I did in the immediate aftermath of it, and yes, I do now ... And I think the longer we go, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be, and after this length of time and given the controversy and high profile of it, my view is that if they were not genuine, by this time somebody wouldve come forward and said heres the proof that theyre not. Nobody has done that. (Unfortunately for Rather, nobody has come forward with proof that they are in fact legitimate, and the preponderance of the available evidence continues to cast doubt on their authenticity.) As I recall, it took the "guys in the basement in pajamas" less than a day to start questioning the validity of the printed records. If rather Dan is right (no, he's really left) they were typed on the beta version company of the future Microsoft on the really beta version of WORD on a computer that wasn't even a beta prototype at the time the documents were purported to be written. But that's alright Dan, we believe you -- now please just take your medicines and you'll feel a lot better.
To: A.A. Cunningham
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:33:33 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: MindBender26
And I think the longer we go, nobody has ever proven that the documents were not what they purported to be, and after this length of time and given the controversy and high profile of it, my view is that if they were not genuine, by this time somebody wouldve come forward and said heres the proof that theyre not. Nobody has done that. He intentionally overlooks Free Repblic's (and some other online forums') finest hours.
Memo to Dan Rather. What a lying, deceitful, forgery-mongering fungus you are.
(And always will be).
Oh, and just so you know...Lying about deceit and lying doesn't make it better, it makes it worse. There is no recovery for whatever good name you might have had..
.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:33:42 AM PDT
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: MindBender26
The Rathergate unravelling was a high-watermark for FR......maybe the best work thats ever been done by people in pajamas
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:39:56 AM PDT
by
woofie
(It takes three villages and a forest of woodland creatures to raise a child in Obamaville)
To: MindBender26
If I remember correctly, you could exactly duplicate the document by opening Word and typing using the default settings for font, margins, etc.
IOW, whoever forged it didn’t even bother to change the default settings. They just assumed the document would be accepted as real.
Prior to the Web, they would have been right.
To: ETL
maybe dan would like to investigate a certain birth certificate since he is an expert on forgeries.
we will show him this photo after the revolution and right before we put him up against the wall.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:46:22 AM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: cuban leaf
The font argument is iron-clad. But, if it weren’t, the formats of the memos (headings, alignment of signature etc) were from a standard establised around 1993.
Strike 2.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:50:03 AM PDT
by
Fundamentally Fair
(Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
To: cuban leaf
on the Friday following the 60 minutes broadcast Dan must not think anyone watches him. I caught a part of that broadcast in which he had his source on to interview. Dan asked the guy about him vetting his sources and information to which the guy basically said that he hadn't done any confirmation of information and that he had expected CBS to do it. The look on old Dan's face was priceless.
Not to mention that the source had been presented as "unimpeachable" the week before and had been kept secret presumably to keep him from being killed by the Bush cabal. Then a week later brought him out. Either keeping him anonymous was done just because he was an unreliable source or Dan "burned" a source by endangering his life. Either way it's something an honest journalist doesn't do.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:51:07 AM PDT
by
techcor
(I hope Obama succeeds, in being a one term president.)
To: MindBender26
Imagine the good he could have done, if he had just stuck to facts and good journalism. Imagine if he was still around in 2008 and had gone after Obama with even half the zeal he went after Bush!
A Dan Rather with his reputation in tact could have destroyed Obama with one show.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:03:54 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: MindBender26
Interesting that Rather cancelled an appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s show. Maybe he didn’t want to answer some tough questions.
To: MindBender26
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:20:02 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: MindBender26
(Now Claims Rathergate Dcuments Were Genuine)
***Genuine but Fake but Accurate, yeah right
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:23:12 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(Palin 2012. It's just me in the voting booth. 100% straight republican ticket.)
To: MindBender26; SpinnerWebb
and settles scores with former colleagues who, as he writes, after pretending to be friends for all those years, stealthily snuck around giving anonymous newspaper quotes and otherwise scheming to put the dirk in deep when I was down and hurting.Let me spell it out for you Kenneth ..
- You were a pompous assclown
- The people you refer to as "friends" never did like you ... but you were powerful and vindictive ... so they fawned all over you instead.
- When your own egotism inflicted a devastaing wound and stripped you of your power ... they gladly kicked you to the curb.
- You are still a pompous assclown.
Case Closed
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:23:12 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
To: MindBender26
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:28:12 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: immadashell
As I recall, it took the "guys in the basement in pajamas" less than a day to start questioning the validity of the printed records. Faster. In fact one of the Ratherist "defences" against the FR analysis was that Freepers were crying "fake" in posts timemarked before the CBS segment went to air. OF course FR posts are timemarked Pacific time and the program ran 3 hours earlier on the East coast. IIRC correctly the MS-Word computer overlay match using the pdfs from the CBS website was one item that beat Hollywood Time.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:37:55 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
To: basil
I love that story :-); good for you.
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:40:15 AM PDT
by
SueRae
(The Tower of Sauron falls on 11.06.2012)
To: SueRae
I have to admit that it was a fun thing to do. At least his neighbors saw it!
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:52:15 AM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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