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Dan Rather on Memogate: ‘No Question The Story Was True’
newsbusters.org ^ | 12-10-2013 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 12/09/2013 10:33:56 PM PST by servo1969

Former CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather, despite being fired as a result of the bogus story, continues to maintain that he got it right in September 2004 when he aired forged documents concerning George W. Bush’s record with the Air National Guard.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Live Monday, Rather said, “No question the story was true” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Let's turn quickly to what’s been going on at CBS, your old network. Your former colleague, Lara Logan, on leave of absence over this report from Benghazi. Many people believe there’s a slight double standard at CBS in the way that you were treated in terms of the way you departed from CBS, and the way that Lara Logan has been treated, and the way they handled this crisis. What do you think?

DAN RATHER: Well, first of all, CBS News has a lot to answer for this. There are a lot of questions. They have answered some of them. I don't want to in any way to add to their burden. I know what it feels like to be the correspondent who is the center of controversy when there are people both above and below you [unintelligible.]

But I will make this point: with our story, the one that led to our difficulty, no question the story was true. What the complaint and, while we, eventually most of us lost our jobs, was, okay, your story was true, but the way you got to the truth was flawed. The process was flawed. That’s not the case with the Benghazi story. Unfortunately – and there’s no joy in saying it - they were taken in by a man who was a fraud.

The dishonesty here is extraordinary.

The documents Rather presented that fateful night in September 2004 were clearly forgeries. Not one person has come forward since proving they weren't.

Yet here he is nine years later saying on national television, "No question the story was true."

And Morgan didn't challenge him at all.

Is this really what passes for journalism in our country today?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004election; 2004electionbias; apbias; bush; bushhasser; cbswasfraudulent; criminalconspiracy; cultureofcorruption; danratheriscrooked; fakebutaccurate; fraud; getbush; howtostealanelection; lyingliar; memogate; octobersurprise; powerghraib; rather; ratherbiased; rathergate; seebsnews; stalinisttactics; viacommie; waronerror; yellowjournalism
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Okay, now he's just sad and pathetic.
1 posted on 12/09/2013 10:33:57 PM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969; Jim Robinson; Buckhead

Ping.

I cannot remember the Air Force freeper that should also be pinged.


2 posted on 12/09/2013 10:37:04 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: servo1969

Dan Blather will NEVER get over it....That is just fine with me. I hate Marxist, aka leftist media.


3 posted on 12/09/2013 10:37:10 PM PST by AlexW
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To: TankerKC

ping.


4 posted on 12/09/2013 10:38:02 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: servo1969

Ol’ Dan is still in denial.


5 posted on 12/09/2013 10:38:07 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: servo1969
Give it up Dan.


6 posted on 12/09/2013 10:38:16 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; TankerKC

TankerKC


7 posted on 12/09/2013 10:39:00 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

Thanks.


8 posted on 12/09/2013 10:40:52 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Rummyfan

Ol’ Dan is still hitting the Jack Daniels.


9 posted on 12/09/2013 10:44:30 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: servo1969
If there had been an active internet, Dan Rather's career would have been over when he aired his fake story about Vietnam vets on 60 minutes
10 posted on 12/09/2013 10:48:12 PM PST by Baynative (Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray.)
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To: Rummyfan

Mary Mapes had the good sense to stand down.

Rather is connected to Tx politics through his daughter, and he thinks he owns it.


11 posted on 12/09/2013 10:48:15 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

What does his daughter do?


12 posted on 12/09/2013 10:50:21 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: servo1969
...with our story, the one that led to our difficulty, no question the story was true...

No question? Here's a question. How can memos be typed with fonts that would exist only many, many years to the future?

...What the complaint and, while we, eventually most of us lost our jobs, was, okay, your story was true, but the way you got to the truth was flawed. The process was flawed.

In Mister Rather's magical world, "a flawed process" means one that catches him hawking forged docs.

Sorry Dan, it's you and your total and complete lack of honesty, integrity, true journalist principles and also that conscience thingy that caught you red-handed.

No question.

.

13 posted on 12/09/2013 10:50:39 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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He does not even live in Tx but he beats his daughter Robin like a rented mule to his own political ends.


14 posted on 12/09/2013 10:51:56 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: servo1969

His he sad, pathetic, and delusional. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. To think I once (long ago) respected him. Now he isn’t even worthy of disgust...


15 posted on 12/09/2013 10:52:37 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: laplata

Austin Democrat insider.


16 posted on 12/09/2013 10:52:42 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: servo1969

He is sad, pathetic, and delusional. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. To think I once (long ago) respected him. Now he isn’t even worthy of disgust...

/typos fixed


17 posted on 12/09/2013 10:53:10 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: servo1969

Myopic Bass Terd


18 posted on 12/09/2013 10:55:49 PM PST by WilliamRobert (Rafael Cruz is an American hero)
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To: laplata

This guy was in the middle of the flap too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Os

He had designs on Tx AG.

he represented that kook that brought the story forth.


19 posted on 12/09/2013 10:57:23 PM PST by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

I bet she’s a piece of work.


20 posted on 12/09/2013 10:57:28 PM PST by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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