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Even Lefty Vox.com Mocks Dan Rather 'Truth' Movie
NewsBusters ^ | October 15, 2015 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/15/2015 2:40:52 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Just how bad is the movie 'Truth' that will be released tomorrow? So bad that even the notoriously liberal Vox is mocking it. Vox writer Todd VanDerWerff goes so far as to describe it as an example of why "so many people hate Hollywood liberals." As we shall see even Dan Rather in 2004 disagreed with the premise of "Truth."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: buckhead; dailykos; danrather; demagogicparty; markosmoulitsas; marymapes; memebuilding; newsbusters; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pjgladnick; rathergate; tankerkc; toddvanderwerff; truth; vox
Dan Rather 2004 disagrees with Dan Rather 2015 and the premise of "Truth."
1 posted on 10/15/2015 2:40:53 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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It's all about the narrative, not the truth. And that's why people hate Hollywood liberals.
2 posted on 10/15/2015 2:43:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PJ-Comix; Buckhead; Jim Robinson; Everybody; Anybody; All
I remember a FReeper named "Buckhead" that pulled the covers completely off of Dan Blather!!!

It was a beautiful thing to watch!

Thank God for FR and alla us little FReepers!!!

3 posted on 10/15/2015 2:51:48 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Hey, lets leap to support someone rich and strong enough who will DO SOMETHING, (even if its wrong))
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To: Billthedrill

This sounds worthy of being included in the michael moore and oliver stone hall of shame.


4 posted on 10/15/2015 2:55:39 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: SierraWasp

That was a fun time.


5 posted on 10/15/2015 2:56:46 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: PJ-Comix

bttt


6 posted on 10/15/2015 3:12:10 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Unfortunately, Vox missed the bigger point, claiming that the failure to properly vet the story's source was a large enough journalistic failure to justify the sacking of Rather and Mapes.

Actually, the truth is far worse than that: the real truth is that Mapes and Rather already knew that the central tenet of their story was completely false. The TX/ANG brass they interviewed had already told them that not only did Bush not try to use his father's influence to escape from service in Vietnam, but quite to the contrary, Bush had volunteered to go, and was turned down.

This was uncovered by the Thornburgh Commission in the postmortem investigation. FR covered that part of the story as well, six years ago: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325760/posts

7 posted on 10/15/2015 4:15:54 PM PDT by FredZarguna (A Kenyan appears to have infiltrated the lumberyard.)
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Rush finally gave Buckhead credit today after crediting powerline and little green footballs. When he came back after commercial, he mentioned Buckhead and FR about 5 times. My guess, somebody sent him an email.


8 posted on 10/15/2015 4:20:55 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Poser

Thanks for posting that information. Have a blessed day!


9 posted on 10/16/2015 10:50:09 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Hey, lets leap to support someone rich and strong enough who will DO SOMETHING, (even if its wrong))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks PJ-Comix.

10 posted on 10/17/2015 2:47:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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The movie was a slap in the face to every honest journalist in the country. (Luckily, that’s a small number now a days...)


11 posted on 10/18/2015 11:40:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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