Dan Rather as a "young marine."
Posted on 04/15/2017 8:58:47 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Major Glenn MacDonald USAR (Ret) continues his MilitaryCorruption.com expose of Dan Rather by explaining how the disgraced, former CBS Talking Head acquired a photo in a Marine dress blue uniform, complete with white saucer cap.
Dan Rather was tossed from the Marine Corps in 1954, yet the former news anchor has continued to claim that he is a Marine! Major MacDonald is having none of it. Ed.
From MilitaryCorruption.com:
By Glenn MacDonald
EXCLUSIVE
THE DAN RATHER MARINE CORPS DECEPTION COMES UNDONE - MILITARYCORRUPTION.COM DISCOVERS ORIGIN OF HEADSHOT OF DISGRACED FORMER CBS NEWS ANCHORMAN WEARING DRESS BLUE UNIFORM WITH WHITE SAUCER CAP LIBERAL ICON USED PIX IN 2012 BOOK - CAPTION READS: "AS A YOUNG MARINE" - FALSE, AS RATHER FAILED TO GRADUATE FROM BOOT CAMP - "YOU CAN'T BE CALLED A MARINE UNTIL THEN, WHEN YOU'RE PINNED WITH THE GLOBE AND ANCHOR," OLD GUNNY SERGEANT TELLS US
After we ran our initial story about the Dan Rather deception, as to his military service, it didn't take long for our many Marine Corps readers to "sound off" as to whether or not Danny boy was one of "The few, the proud, the Marines." The resounding verdict was "HELL NO!"
In his 2012 book, RATHER OUTSPOKEN, the then 81 year-old liberal icon and disgraced former CBS anchorman didn't say word one about the Corps in the text, but shockingly in the photos section, there was a headshot of a smiling, young Dan wearing Marine dress blues, including the famed white saucer cap. With the shocking pix came the cutline: "As a young Marine."
Rather has written several biographical books over the past 40 years, but this was the first time the Texan climbed out on a limb and portrayed himself in print as a onetime member of the Corps. It was a risky move, as Dan knows he didn't graduate from boot camp. In our first Rather story, we quoted a Marine Corps League official as stating one must actually graduate from training to earn the coveted USMC emblem, the globe and anchor. Only then, can one be rightfully called a "Marine."
BIASED REPORTING
We bear no malice toward an old man, still traumatized after all these years by his failure to achieve such a manly goal. But Rather is proven a rank hypocrite when it comes to his intense criticism of former Vice-President Dan Quayle or President George W. Bush (no friend of ours).
Quayle's powerful daddy helped him get him a safe spot in the Army National Guard during the Vietnam War and it is safe to say the first President George Bush (WWII Navy pilot) did the same for his dim-witted son. At least "Dubya" learned how to fly a F-102 jet plane. He was a commissioned officer, while Dan Rather knew deep in his Democrat heart he hadn't made it through basic raining.
We quoted B. J. Burkett, author of STOLEN VALOR, as saying his study of what records he could obtain of Rather's brief time in the Corps. indicated he never completed boot camp and was "medically discharged" on May 11, 1954. It must have been a miserable bus ride back to Texas for Dan, as the yet-to-become famous and fabulously wealthy network anchorman contemplated a bleak future.
But, if he washed out at Parris Island, S.C., how does that square with the photo of smiling Dan wearing a dress uniform blue tunic and white cap, as if he was all rarin' to go fight the Commies? We scratched our heads and wondered if a disconsolate Dan had the snapshot taken privately, in any of the many photo shops of Beaufort, S.C. where all sorts of Marine uniforms and caps were available for rent or purchase.
THE REAL ORIGIN OF THE DRESS UNIFORM PIX
The answer, in our EXCLUSIVE copyrighted story here, is as follows:
A certain very senior Marine NCO, long-retired, but around at the same time as Rather, tells us the real story:
"I was a recruit at the P.I. in the early 50's, and you didn't dare call yourself a Marine until you've rightfully pinned the globe and anchor on your collar upon graduation from boot camp.
"As for the photo you ran (on MCC), here's the likely explanation. It was probably posed for the yearbook we all got when we became Marines and went on to further training at Camp Lejuene or elsewhere. All of us had our head shots taken. They'd put a blues blouse on you and a white cover on your head, then snap the photo. Whoever failed to graduate, had their photo shit-canned."
Or, at least, that's what was supposed to happen. Obviously, somehow Dan got possession of the pix and waited nearly 60 years to dare publish it in RATHER OUTSPOKEN.
The intent is obvious, even without the incriminating cutline "As a young Marine." The vast majority of folks seeing the smiling face of Dan Rather wearing such a sacred uniform would think that Rather MUST have been a Jarhead. There he is in a USMC dress uniform. They had no way to know it was a lie.
DOES DAN HAVE TROUBLE TELLING THE TRUTH?
Which brings us to some of the other problems Rather has had with the truth over the years. Whether it was walking out on the start of his own CBS EVENING NEWS broadcast in 1988 because he was irked a tennis match was running overtime, or getting snippy with Nixon at a press conference or old man Bush in a live interview, controversy has followed Rather wherever he has been. "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
CBS ended up firing the aging anchorman some ten years ago when he came up short on proof that then-President George Bush was AWOL from National Guard duty in the early 1970's. One might call what Rather did reckless - kind of like deliberately running a deceptive photo of himself in a mass-publication book.
Dan's former CBS NEWS colleague Bernie Goldberg is on record as saying Rather claimed he not only enlisted in the Marines once (1954) but had joined up two times! A check of the record by investigator B.J. Burkett shows that Rather was wrong. He'd been part of an Army Reserve unit during the Korean War, while fellow students at Sam Houston University in Texas were facing the draft and a quick trip to the fighting zone.
A PSYCHIATRIST MIGHT BE NEEDED HERE
It would probably take a headshrinker to figure out why Rather remains haunted by his far-ago failure. It's sad to see him at 85, interviewed on the left-leaning propaganda network MSNBC attacking President Donald Trump non-stop from the day he took office. Of course, famed newsman Dan has made a career of attacking only Republicans. If you, dear reader, can come up with the name of any prominent Democrats he has skewered, we'll send you 100 of our MilitaryCoruption.com bumper stickers. They're an exact reproduction of our MCC masthead.
We have been equally critical of BOTH parties - Democrats and Republicans - on these pages over the past 17 years. From editorializing early on against the needless war in Iraq, to calling for arrogant Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to be fired and sleazy Dick "Halliburton" Cheney exposed, we have pierced the pomposity of fakers like John Kerry and dared discuss Barak Hussein Obama's penchant for patronizing a certain men's establishment in Chicago back in his gay old "community organizer" days.
No one gets a free pass here. If you screw the troops or your hurt this nation, we're gonna come after you, no matter how powerful and above the law you think you may be. The pen is still mightier than the sword.
[MilitaryCorruption.com EDITOR'S NOTE: -- If doddering old Dan can prove he actually graduated boot camp and was a bonafide Marine, we offer to profusely apologize on these pages. All we ask of him is that he help us tell "the rest of the story" by signing SF 180 which would release ALL of his military records so we can see for sure what the actual reason was the Corps dumped him for being "medically unfit." That term was used to cover all sorts of situations - all the way from being a bed-wetter or homosexual (a big no-no in the Joe McCarthy 1950's) - to a broken leg or some serious injury or allergy. If we had to guess the truth, the answer likely (pardon the pun) "lies" somewhere in between.]
ROTFLMAO
Dan Is D Man.....maybe NOT......you know Mike Tyson could not complete boot camp either.
Someone should create fake but authentic looking Marine discharge papers for Rather. Post them on the internet and make Rather go
public claiming they are fake.
The irony and hypocrisy would be wonderful.
Myself, I had gone to the Boston Recruiting Station in order to enlist in the Marines. The delayed enlistment rules would have prevented. me from being present for the birth of my first child. The Army had a different policy which did not hinder me on that. I joined the Army that day, went active a few months following. I truly admired that Marine recruiter too.
Some regret but it was fate. I salute all real Marines.
In defense of those who have the heart to earn the EGA but not the body, this article and comments are not aimed at all, but just someone who is stealing the honor.
Ejected for attempted buggery.
Dan Rather as a "young marine."
“you know Mike Tyson could not complete boot camp either.”
Mention of Tyson always reminds me of his phone number
Fee Fi Fo - Fee Fi Fee Fee
The article doesn’t say WHY he was booted out of boot camp. He wasn’t man enough? buggery?
Buggery. The woman who bore his daughter Robyn - who was raised gay here in Austin - was a beard.
Probably too unstable. Medical discharge because he was nuts then as he is now.
"TEXAS? Only steers and queers come from Texas and you don't look like a cow!"
did the same for his dim-witted son. At least “Dubya” learned how to fly a F-102
He should not claim to be a Marine. He is a liar and if he lied on his induction forms, he is a perjurer.
I took a tour of Plattsburgh AFB. It does not make me an FB111 pilot.
He oozed from the Harris family of Houston - Harris Co. - who were big pharma over 100 years ago.
I cant stand people who claim to serve that has not served. I myself went through basic but did not graduate basic. You have not served till you have graduated basic. all that I have done and Dan Rather have done is gotten a taste of military life not served. to serve means a lot more then experiencing 13 weeks of basic training... I wish I could make the claim but cant. you will never see me mentioning this any where but in a post like this because not making it through basic training is nothing to be proud of.
when I went into the Army in 1973, one day while at the rifle range the Drill Sargent announced that when we returned to the company area, we all had to rush into the barracks, put on our poplin shirt, black tie, Class A jacket, and our saucer cap, go to the latrine where the photographer had set up back by the showers, and get our picture taken. A couple days before graduation, we given the National Defense Service Medal and ribbon, and the packet of pictures. I think about $30 was docket from our pay for the pictures.
When I heard about the Rather controversy, I figured that was exactly how he had gotten the picture in uniform.
These MSM cucks are scum pieces of sh*t.
Remember the USMC Veteran’s slogan: “Once a Marine, always a Marine” — Old Dan Blather is just using it to his advantage as a ‘vet’.
Yes, I’m US Army vet of 20 years, but have a USMC 20 year vet cousin. On the other hand, one of my brother’s in law was medically discharged from USAF basic training when it was discovered he had a heart murmur. Unlike Dan Blather, he has not traded on the month or so in the USAF until his medical condition was discovered as making him “a veteran.”
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