That would be a good name for a movie about Dan Rather. “Half Truth”
“Rather himself turned up at the event to praise the film’s accuracy and its (very sympathetic) portrayal of him.”
LOL bwhahahahaha
Ping!
What’s the frequency Kenny.
Then it must be a documentary.....................
Nobody will watch this thing but it will be up for some kind of academy award. Mark my words.
I cannot fathom why Redford/Rather/CBS would want this embarrassing farce to be rehashed. Rather swallowed a fabricated story hook line and sinker because he wanted so badly to believe it, but it was a pack of lies from start to finish. He was punished - appropriately - with the loss of his career.
The bad thing about this movie is - Five or Ten years from now it will be the ONLY source document for any future efforts to define what happened.
It will become an iconic production - look at its male lead - that all good liberals will quote when dealing with anything dealing with Bush ‘43. It will become as pervasive and as long lasting as the rumor started in the late 1980s that the CIA had provide crack cocaine to LA to hook the black population on hard drugs.
Fake, but inaccurate...
Choke, gasp, spit coffee out my nose! If that statement isn't proof of looneytoons, I don't know what is!
This 'documentary' belongs with all of the other media efforts to white-wash history; The innocent Rosenbergs, the loyal American Statesman Alger Hiss, just to name a couple.
Ah memories:
“Buckhead” vs. Dan Rather: Internet David Slays Media (Sept 26, 2004) Goliath: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227210/posts
And of course, famous (and infamous) Buckhead post #47: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210662/posts?page=47#47
Buckhead continues to rock!! Hey, Buckhead, if they had been telling the real truth and had you in the movie, who would you have wanted to play you?
Did anyone else see this silly movie?
or care to?
Lets see;
NO action flick.
No rollercoaster ride from opening to ending.
NO Superheroes.
NO fantasy or si-fi.
NO CGIs.
Who would go to see this? It will be on HBO in a few months, maybe sooner, and play for years.
Bump
Of course Redford would think DNCBS would bow to the Bush WH.
That there should be enough to convince anyone this is fiction.
Pray America is waking
Because it makes Moonves and CBS look bad for firing him.
Alex, I’ll take “The Bleedin’ Obvious” for a thousand.
The suits at CBS are being generous in calling the film “Half Truth.” A better title would be “Lies and Deceit,” or as someone else suggested, “Fake and Inaccurate.”
Interesting little side note about the aftermath that didn’t get enough publicity. After Les Moonves and Andrew Heyward decided to fire Rather—and the Thornburgh-Boccardi Report gave them more than enough ammunition—the CBS chairman was visited by none other than Walter Cronkite. The legendary CBS anchor congratulated Moonves for making the “right” decision. To be fair, Cronkite never liked Rather—too much of a showboat, and besides, “The Dan’s” elevation to the anchor chair pushed Uncle Walter into an early retirement.
But Cronkite (who would never be mistaken for a conservative) knew that Rather’s story was patently false and it seriously damaged what little integrity CBS News still had. Of course, the Cronkite-Moonves meeting would never make it into a film like “Truth,” and I’m sure that Mr. Thornburgh (a former PA governor and U.S. attorney general) and Mr. Boccardi (long-time head of the Associated Press) will be depicted as corporate hacks, shills, or worse.
The fact that “Truth” was made—and claims to live up to its name—is more proof of how far the news and entertainment industries have fallen. Rather and Mapes were nothing more than politically-motivated liars and they almost got away with it, until Buckhead did his work and started a revolution.
Unfortunately, the left is very good at rewriting history, and this film will be shown again and again until is becomes the “accepted” version of events.
Karl Rove wrote the offending document as a way of obfuscating the truth in this situation: Bush was drunk and AWOL .
Rove’s the king of dirty tricks, especially with faked documents on the campaign trail, and he’s been laughing at us ever since for not realizing what a problem Bush faced in 04 with a veteran like Kerry — during the Iraq war.