Posted on 11/29/2004 1:07:51 PM PST by Snapple
....Rather’s abrupt departure is the latest in a long line of actions taken by media conglomerates in recent years bowing to objections from the government or from corporate, military or intelligence interests to any serious investigation of the practices of the American ruling elite....
(Excerpt) Read more at wsws.org ...
Free Republic gets a little "credit":
"The September 8 broadcast was quickly undermined by reports circulated on the Internet by right-wing activists linked to the Bush campaign, who pointed to obvious defects in the documents, including their typography, showing that they could not have been typewritten in the early 1970s, but were produced on a personal computer using Microsoft word processing. Rather was ultimately compelled to disavow the program in a statement he read during an evening news broadcast.
The debacle of the “60 Minutes” broadcast was widely hailed in right-wing circles as a fatal blow to the supposed left-wing bias of CBS, long demonized as the most liberal of the major television networks, with Rather as demon-in-chief. His departure—or ouster—was similarly celebrated as the demise of a diehard opponent of the Bush administration and supporter of the Democratic Party."
Unfortunately, Blather will be working behind the scenes at CBS.
The words 'lipstick' and 'pig' come to mind.
Now Dan can work full time on his counterfeit document operation. This time he's going to get the right typewriter.
Only from the warped standpoint of the US ultra-right—which considered even the conservative “New Democrat” Bill Clinton a crypto-communist—could such leading lights of the American corporate media be considered figures of the left.
A website where Bill Clinton is labeled “conservative”!
Great stuff!
O'Reilly's column is defending Rather as "an honest man", meanwhile the Spin-o-Meter hits the redline...
"Extreme liberalism is a disease of the soul, a mental illness that ravages the mind; it is nothing less than a force of evil, hell bent on destroying everything we hold dear." ~ Brandon D. Ragle
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