Dan Rather on Memogate: ‘No Question The Story Was True’

newsbusters.org ^ | 12-10-2013 | Noel Sheppard

[servo1969]

Former CBS Evening News Anchor Dan Rather, despite being fired as a result of the bogus story, continues to maintain that he got it right in September 2004 when he aired forged documents concerning George W. Bush’s record with the Air National Guard.

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Live Monday, Rather said, “No question the story was true” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

[video]

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Let's turn quickly to what’s been going on at CBS, your old network. Your former colleague, Lara Logan, on leave of absence over this report from Benghazi. Many people believe there’s a slight double standard at CBS in the way that you were treated in terms of the way you departed from CBS, and the way that Lara Logan has been treated, and the way they handled this crisis. What do you think?

DAN RATHER: Well, first of all, CBS News has a lot to answer for this. There are a lot of questions. They have answered some of them. I don't want to in any way to add to their burden. I know what it feels like to be the correspondent who is the center of controversy when there are people both above and below you [unintelligible.]

But I will make this point: with our story, the one that led to our difficulty, no question the story was true. What the complaint and, while we, eventually most of us lost our jobs, was, okay, your story was true, but the way you got to the truth was flawed. The process was flawed. That’s not the case with the Benghazi story. Unfortunately – and there’s no joy in saying it - they were taken in by a man who was a fraud.

The dishonesty here is extraordinary.

The documents Rather presented that fateful night in September 2004 were clearly forgeries. Not one person has come forward since proving they weren't.

Yet here he is nine years later saying on national television, "No question the story was true."

And Morgan didn't challenge him at all.

Is this really what passes for journalism in our country today?

[TigersEye]

Dan, you ^boob, you fabricated a document out of thin air. The officer who wrote reports for Bush's TANG unit said he never wrote any document like that on any of his pilots.
You were caught red handed, Mr. Ra^ther.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[laplata]

Wow, how nice...a “Democrat Texas Populist”. Progressives are pukes of the earth.

I looked up Robin and her old man is prettier than her. She’s a real Progressive, too.

[mylife]

Note how van Oz and Burketts wiki entries have been scrubbed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Burkett

[The Bugler]

Such a beautiful resemblance :)

[laplata]

They sure have. Man, we’re in areal uphill battle with these bastards and their media lap dogs.

[laplata]

I bet she’s a lesbo.

[piytar]

For any newbies not familiar with the Killian documents, here is a gif from Wikipedia showing the alleged damning memo about GW Bush flashing back and forth with a recreation using STANDARD MS Word settings: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Killian_memos_MSWord_animated.gif

So, for Dan Blather to be correct, I guess GW Bush knew of the memo, set up Bill Gates to become one of the richest men ever, and as part of the deal got him to set up MS Word to exactly duplicate the type settings, proportional font spacing, superscripting, and line spacing of an early 20th century typewriter used in military bases. Oh yeah, and GW got Gates to make the font etc. used by that specific typewriter be one of the most common in the world.

Yup, that's it.

Or Dan Blather is a pathetic, useless, delusional fool. You choose one...

[mylife]

Whoo Baby!

[South40]

AIM Editor Cliff Kincaid explained the significance of the panel’s revelation: “Mapes, who was very close to Rather and enjoyed his confidence, had the evidence exonerating Bush of this malicious charge. The report shows that there were multiple credible sources to prove that Bush did not try to avoid Vietnam by going into the National Guard and that he was in fact willing to go to Vietnam as a pilot. However, CBS News deliberately kept this information from its viewers and conveyed an opposite impression because Rather, Mapes & Company were trying to depict Bush as a coward who, as Commander-in-Chief, was sending American soldiers to their deaths in Iraq.”

The report reveals that Rather assured CBS News President Andrew Heyward that he, Rather, had not “been involved in this much checking on a story since Watergate,” and that it was “very big.” The report says that Rather assured Heyward that the story was “thoroughly vetted” or documented and verified.

Report Says Dan Rather Personally Involved in CBS News Campaign to Destroy President Bush; Accuracy

[mylife]

You gotta watch these pricks every second.

[piytar]

typewrite *to* be... /sigh

[mylife]

In fact 3/4 of the deaths in the 12 year war in Afghanistan have happened on Obies watch.

FACT

[laplata]

They’re vile and evil.

[Zakeet]

I believe the term he once used was fake but accurate.

[piytar]

BTW, while looking for a copy of the Buckhead gif, I actually found sites where leftists are STILL defending the authenticity of the Killian memo. Seriously.

Liberalism is a mental illness...

[mylife]

They really are.

[TigersEye]

LOL That’s hoot!

[mylife]

Why would Burkett, with a high powered lawyer, run that secretary’s recollection and a dead mans story up the flagpole and sell it to See BS without running it past his HIGH priced lawyer?

Stinks to high heaven.

They were in Cahoots at some level

[Bullish]

FUDR