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TIFF: Dan Rather Chokes Up at 'Truth' Premiere, Praises Film for Accuracy
The Hollywood Reporter ^
| 12 SEP 2015
| Etan Vlessing
Posted on 09/13/2015 4:32:58 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
"A film called 'Truth' should be accurate," the iconic CBS news anchor said of director James Vanderbilts movie about his 2006 exit and the events leading to it.
Iconic CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Saturday praised the Robert Redford-starring Rathergate movie Truth for its accuracy and performances ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
"Naturally I was pleased, and pleasantly surprised. This film is very accurate. A film called Truth should be accurate," Rather told the Hollywood Reporter during a pre-screening party. James Vanderbilt's movie centers on Rather's 2006 exit from CBS after a 60 Minutes investigation two years earlier into U.S. President George W. Bushs alleged draft-dodging during the Vietnam war.
Rather praised the performances of Redford as the famed CBS newsman and Cate Blanchett as his CBS 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes. "The acting is superior. I think it's an emotional film. Of course people will say I found it emotional because it's about me. But I say that as objectively as I can," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: danrather; falsehood; falsehoods; lies; mapes; marymapes; propaganda; rather; rathergate
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Oh, yeah. That’s it. Great moment for FR.
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posted on
09/13/2015 4:54:32 AM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: catfish1957
The article fails to address the central question of whether or not the evidence was forged and simply asserts that the Dan Rather/Mapes story was true.
That in itself expresses the state of journalism
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posted on
09/13/2015 4:57:16 AM PDT
by
woofie
To: catfish1957
Taken down by FR.
Wonder if that gets a “Truthful” mention ?
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posted on
09/13/2015 4:58:15 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
09/13/2015 4:59:04 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Looks like the classic rehab effort by the “Media Establishment” to help poor Dan move on past his narcissistic decade of humility...
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:01:17 AM PDT
by
Kay Ludlow
(Government actions ALWAYS have unintended consequences...)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
All I want to know: Is Free Republic in the movie???
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:01:23 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: Amagi
Remember Oliver Stone's JFK? I was 13 when Kennedy was assassinated, I remember those days and events. I also remember Jim Garrison's irresponsible witch hunt in New Orleans. Hearing young people, at the time, taking Stone's delusion drivel seriously was a lesson to me in how effective even the most silly and concocted propaganda can be effective.
To: Gaffer
Add to not in the cast the mysterious Lucy Ramirez, the woman who Rather said gave him the documents. CBS, CNN and the Washington Post couldn’t prove that she ever existed.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:05:27 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: miss marmelstein
All I want to know: Is Free Republic in the movie??? Won't that be like a Soviet propaganda film featuring Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow?
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
CBS, CNN and the Washington Post couldnt prove that [Lucy Ramirez] ever existed. She was using a pseudonym. Her real name was Mary Mapes.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
We are now at the period where it is in vogue to trash any and everything Bush, especially George W. Bush. If rehabbing Dan Rather helps their cause, he will be rehabbed. Maybe even canonized.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:08:36 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(Trump is no Reagan, But by God, he is a fighter.)
To: miss marmelstein
They want us to watch it just to find out that we’re not. I’m not biting.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:14:53 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Sheesh...has someone got a wooden stake or a silver bullet handy?
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
This is this the same Dan Rather that volunteered to go visit Mr. Zapruder’s house, knock on the door, push him out of the way when the door opened and take the assassination film for CBS, right?
To: catfish1957
Hail to “Buckhead” and others !
To: twister881
Personally, I find the quixotic spectacle of Rather-errant and his squiress Mapes at large among their own kind sort of amusing. Like ufologists, they add a touch of crackpot spice to public life. Admittedly, the broth of American life in the early Twenty-first century may be more than a little overly spice.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"In the film Rather and Mapes are depicted as crusading journalists whose story is attacked by critics with a political agenda." Political agenda: The Truth
(BTW, Redford is as big an @-hole as Rather. He's now on the "Jane Fonda No-Watch List")
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Buckhead nailed it.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:33:54 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Well, I didn’t really plan on seeing it. And with Redford’s name attached to it? Oh, brother!
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:39:39 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: mfish13
The depth and frequency of liberal self-delusion should never be underestimated.
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posted on
09/13/2015 5:43:12 AM PDT
by
Doche2X2
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