Posted on 10/17/2014 11:13:09 AM PDT by Interesting Times
NEW YORK – Robert Redford will play Dan Rather in a film about the former CBS anchor’s disputed report about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.
The film, titled Truth, will be adapted from the memoir Truth And Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power by former CBS producer Mary Mapes, said the production company, Mythology Entertainment. Cate Blanchett is signed on to play Mapes.
If you followed the 2004 presidential campaign, you probably recall the “disputed” 60 Minutes report claiming that George W. Bush shirked his duties and failed to follow orders as a young Texas Air National Guard officer. The segment was discredited when the “military memos” on which it was based were exposed online as forgeries. CBS News received a well-deserved black eye, and long-time anchor Dan Rather, producer Mary Mapes and several others lost their jobs.
There is no need to review the technical evidence about the memos, except to note that 1970s-era typewriters lacked word processing features such as superscripts, kerning (adjusting the spaces between letters to improve readability), proportional spacing and mathematically centered titles. A detailed account of the scandal, which became famous as “RatherGate,” can be found here.
To many, the debunking of the 60 Minutes segment For the Record was a brilliantly effective exercise in free speech that prevented a slanted hit piece from influencing a national election. But to Mapes and Rather, it was a profound injustice that should never be allowed to happen again.
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Online free speech ping....
All that we long-time FReepers want to know is who is going to play Buckhead?
ping ...
Kinda like the Valerie Plame fantasy.
These Progressives cannot deal with the plain truth.
How Stalinistic. Orwell would be proud of them waiting around a decade to reinvent history, since they failed to do it the first go around.
If it is a truthful story it will show how in the face of fact after fact Rather still to this day keeps promoting an obvious false story and Mary Mapes is a pathological liar.......Fat Chance!!!
Probably the guy who played Voldemort.
They wont see me at the theater for this propaganda.
No mention of Lucy Ramariz in the article?
Good. The evidence that these were forgeries is beyond overwheming. Rather’s own, on the record, “fake but accurate” comment is damning.
I think we should relish the idea of this coming up again.
Look for cameos by FReeper Buckhead as mild mannered typeset afficionado.. and all the usual riff raff that revealed the lies of the Left, one more time.
It isn't primarily about 2004.
The title is “Truth”!?
Hahaha.
I think we should relish the idea of this coming up again.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think Rather actually uttered the phrase "fake, but accurate." That was an online characterization of his efforts to defend the segment after the "Killian memos" sank into the lagoon.
BTTT
Well, it would be nice to know whether it’s true or not.
However I don’t mind a prominant member if the Liberal press being hoisted on that particular petard after what happened to Sarah “I can see Russia from my front porch” Palin. Poetic justice? Payback’s a b*tch? Both?
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