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FLASHBACK: 30 Years Ago Tonight, Dan Rather’s Failed, Fake News Ambush of Bush
Newsbusters ^ | 1/25/18 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 01/25/2018 5:14:06 AM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

What’s funny is, Rather supported Obama doing the same thing in Yemen, Egypt, Syria and Libya. Rather is a hypocrite


21 posted on 01/25/2018 5:58:54 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Oh, to have a Time Machine at my disposal! ;)
Of course . . . but then, if you did go back to that time, you would just be a Cassandra railing at your friends for not believing then what you did not believe then.

Sigh . . .


22 posted on 01/25/2018 6:00:24 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: mabarker1

Me too. I turned 70 recently.

I remember this happening, but I was a lurker then. Long before I signed up.


23 posted on 01/25/2018 6:07:48 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Col Frank Slade; Buckhead
I guess the Bush family got the last laugh on Dan with the fake Natl Guard memos which destroyed his career.

Thank you, Buckhead!

24 posted on 01/25/2018 6:10:37 AM PST by null and void (The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid...)
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To: henkster

I was there in that discussion. Not the first thread but the second. It was an amazing time.

I remember when we were discussing the superscript and I said that my word version did not have the same relative height/location of the superscript. One poster said, “print it out and it will”. I did. And it did.

I was just mentioning the Dan Rather fiasco to some liberals on the internet last Saturday as the beginning of the end of the MSM we are seeing today. You can actually imagine how many of our current stories would have played out before that event. For starters, most of them would not be stories. They would have been as buried as JFK’s affair with Marilyn Monroe.


25 posted on 01/25/2018 6:11:06 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: markomalley

I also recall that it was a poster of FR named Backhoe that first posted that the typewriter used in the fake memo wasn’t available at that time. Free Republic assisted in exposing the truth about Rather!


26 posted on 01/25/2018 6:11:41 AM PST by Thebaddog (Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar.)
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To: Thebaddog

Buckhead.


27 posted on 01/25/2018 6:15:36 AM PST by null and void (The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid...)
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To: robroys woman
Whatever happened to Buckhead?
That was what I first thought when I read the headline - but this is about GHW Bush, not Dubbya.

I was gonna post

Rather's Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen

To Set the Record Straight

and

Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif


28 posted on 01/25/2018 6:16:33 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Thebaddog; Buckhead

That was Buckhead.


29 posted on 01/25/2018 6:17:27 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: robroys woman
Whatever happened to Buckhead?

No idea, he hasn't posted in a bit over 3 years.

Perhaps he'll check in here?

30 posted on 01/25/2018 6:18:48 AM PST by null and void (The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid...)
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To: robroys woman
Whatever happened to Buckhead?
His last FR post was - 10/16/2015. Doesn't bode well ...
31 posted on 01/25/2018 6:23:28 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: robroys woman
Whatever happened to Buckhead?

Buckhead's last post here was on October 16, 2015. Not sure what happened.
http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:buckhead/index?brevity=full;tab=comments

Strangely enough, that was one day after Rush Limbaugh shined the spotlight on him for exposing the whole Dan Rather fake memo. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3349030/posts.
Maybe JimRob gave him another screen name for his protection.

32 posted on 01/25/2018 6:24:04 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: markomalley

“Three decades later, journalists are still doing their best to undermine conservatives and Republicans. “

...decades later, journalists are still doing their best to undermine the opposition Deep State candidate to promote their own Deep State candidate.


33 posted on 01/25/2018 6:26:06 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: markomalley

Three decades later, journalists are still doing their best Dan Rather impersonations................................


34 posted on 01/25/2018 6:26:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: WayneS; Buckhead; Texas Eagle; Mears; Kid Shelleen; TigerClaws

BUCKHEAD ALERT ....BUCKHEAD ALERT..

Dan Rather has been instructing budding journalists for a long time.

https://www.udemy.com/danrather/


35 posted on 01/25/2018 6:28:29 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: markomalley

I’d much “rather” be reading that the POS had just died. But at 86, I doubt I’ll be waiting a lot longer. What would really make my day would be to read that Dianne Fineswine had “departed” too.


36 posted on 01/25/2018 6:32:06 AM PST by vette6387
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To: markomalley

An Oldie, but a Goodie.


37 posted on 01/25/2018 6:38:16 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: vette6387

No Pelosi?


38 posted on 01/25/2018 6:40:25 AM PST by null and void (The Martians fought global warming, all the plants died and the surface water froze solid...)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

I hope he is still here, we all owe him such a debt of gratitude. I knew what passed for reporting was biased, but that opened my eyes to the fact reporters were willing to outright lie and create false documents to support their lies.

Rather should have been charged with tampering with government documents or something- what he did had to be illegal.


39 posted on 01/25/2018 6:40:44 AM PST by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: null and void

“No Pelosi?”

Naw, she’s only in her late 70’s, so unless her Alzheimers really gets going, she’s likely to keep “entertaining” us with her moronic statements for another decade. Anyway, keeping her as “minority” leader is just another “stone” around the RAT Party’s neck so she’s still “useful!”


40 posted on 01/25/2018 6:45:27 AM PST by vette6387
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