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I am tired of elected officials who are "saddened" every time one of their corrupt buddies goes off to prison.

My state (Oklahoma) has Democrat Congressman Dan Boren. Boren is one of 22 Democrats that has not signed Congressman Mike Pence's discharge petition for the Fairness Doctrine. Boren says he will not support Barack Obama for President. So I thought it would be a good start to send him an e-mail. Knowing that Mr. Boren is an "Independent" Democrat I sent him a nice letter asking him to support the petition. I will repost the e-mail I received from him. My question to Freepers is.. is this enough? He only says he signed an amendment to the financial services appropriations...

See the following links for my interview with prominent and provocative conservative author Dan Flynn whose latest book "A Conservative History of the American Left" has received much praise and press. All three segments are embedded for easy viewing at http://texdozier.com/?p=28 Or you can use YouTube - be sure to subscribe and check out our other interviews: Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6JsYV-wBcQ Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GuJXOz-gzM Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGsourXLuK4

4:00 AM EASTERN/1:00 AM PACIFIC (WEDNESDAY)The polls have closed in South Korea.The country has just voted for the next President of the Republic. It will be a five-year term. This follows the current, unpopular leftist regime of Roh Mu Hyon.Results are now coming in.The 2007 South Korean Presidential race, at the top of the field, pits three unique candidates against each other.--One an appeaser of the current political regime/party (corrupt overtures and carrots to North Korea); --one a "RINO" in a South Korean sense, running on the conservative party opposition ticket but with conciliatory and appeasing policies as well...

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When he left CBS News last June after 44 years, Dan Rather leapt right into a new news gig at HDNet and never looked back. But if the former Evening News anchor was looking to forget about the flawed 2004 report on President Bush’s National Guard service that led to his ignominious departure from the network, he might have picked a different address to set up shop. "One of the guys [on my team] had located a space," Rather told B&C in an interview last week. "And he says to me, ‘I want to recommend it, but there’s a problem.’...

This article is for anyone who would like a pick-me-up on an otherwise dreary day. Gunga Dan went off his meds again and now insists the Bush guard story not just "fake but accurate," but is true. I can't post the article because it comes from USA today, but the link is in the comment and the headline summarizes the story quite well.

Former CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather has donated $2 million to his alma mater, Sam Houston State University, the school said Tuesday. It is the largest single monetary gift in the school's 127-year history. "So many people, known and unknown, helped me to get through Sam Houston State when I was there, desperately trying to make it, that I've always wanted to give back — some how, some way — to the best of my ability," Rather said Tuesday in a statement released by the university. The school was known as Sam Houston State Teachers College when he attended....

WHO'S NOT HOT.... 1. DAN RATHER Nothing in Dan Rather's career at CBS became him like the leaving it. In late June, the discredited one-time golden boy of the electronic media finally threw in the towel and made his long-expected departure from CBS, with an ill-tempered whine that network executives "had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there." The wonder is that they let him do any work at all, much less for over four decades including 24 dismal years as anchor of CBS Evening News. During that period, he dragged the newscast...

CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said on Wednesday he was sorry about the bitter departure of newsman Dan Rather, who left the broadcaster after protracted talks to renew his contract fell apart. ..media watchers said Rather appeared to have been slowly pushed off the air... "I'm sorry it ended the way it did," Moonves told executives at a PricewaterhouseCoopers media event. "There was no bigger role for him to play anymore," ...

NEW YORK — His four-decade run at CBS was headed toward the finish line, but former anchor Dan Rather continued to press the network where he'd made his name to send him back into service on some big stories. The longtime correspondent, known for his travels to hot spots around the world, said he had asked to go to the Gulf Coast last fall to cover Hurricane Katrina and to visit Iraq and Afghanistan to cover the conflicts there, but his requests were denied. "They just said, 'Not interested,' " he said. It now seems clear that even then CBS...

Leslie Cauley, the USA Today reporter who last week “broke” the news that three major U.S. telecommunications companies were assisting the National Security Agency in building a database to more easily track any communications by potential terrorists, is listed as a donor to former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt... A search found a listing for "writer and journalist" Leslie Cauley, indicating she gave $2,000 to Gephardt on June 30, 2003, when Gephardt was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. And that seems not to be her only tie to Democratic politics ... Cauley's link to a Democratic campaign seems likely...

The American press needs a spine transplant in an age when reporters seem reluctant to step on toes and ask the tough questions, says former CBS news anchorman Dan Rather. Speaking as part of the Headlines and Biographies lecture series at Roy Thomson Hall Tuesday night, the veteran U.S. television journalist lamented a trend in today's news that sees reporters rely on euphemisms and tact as though they were conducting international diplomacy instead of telling people exactly what is happening in places like Washington or Ottawa. "I don't know where this urge to be so polite, this mandate not to...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (May 12, 2006) -- One character's name kept coming up during actor Gary Sinise's recent trip to Jalalabad Airfield in eastern Afghanistan where he paid a visit to the troops who were deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Sinise may be arguably one of the greatest and most versatile actors of our generation, having played in award-winning movie roles that range from George in "Of Mice and Men" - which he also directed - to his Broadway role as Randall P. McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" to his current television role as Detective Mac...

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2006 – Volunteers with groups dedicated to supporting America's fighting men and women gathered for a celebrity-led concert in the Pentagon's outdoor center courtyard today. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld meets Sara Singer, an "Operation Iraqi Children" volunteer, during a concert at the Pentagon, May 5. OIC is a nonprofit organization co-founded by actor Gary Sinise that sends school supplies to children in Iraq. Photo by William D. Moss  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The event, which was sponsored by "America Supports You," featured actor Gary Sinise and his "Lt. Dan Band," whose performance was broadcast...

A San Francisco Chronicle Herb Caen Lecture featuring Dan Rather, who was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces long form programming examining major global topics and events for the Discovery Channel, will be in conversation with Orville Schelll, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Often referred to as "the hardest working man in broadcast journalism," ...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAY 19TH? May 19th is the date the Da Vinci Code movie opens. A movie based on a book that wears its heresy and blasphemy as a badge of honor. What can we as Christians do in response to the release of this movie? I'm going to offer you the usual choices -- and a new one. Here are the usual suspects: A) We can ignore the movie. ........ The problem with this option: The box office is a ballot box. The only people whose votes are counted are those who buy tickets. And the ballot...

Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, according to tales of ancient history. So did Katie Couric, sort of. She played badminton in New York while other news anchors were in Baghdad to cover the opening day of Saddam Hussein's trial. Couric was recently plucked from NBC's Today show to read the evening news on competing CBS. I wish her good luck; she's certainly going to need it. Couric's new job probably saves NBC the possibility of letting her go when her contract expires next month; 15 years is a longtime for a TV personality to stay in one place. CBS...

The Three Serbs After Europe criticized the U.S. for its treatment of war prisoners at Gitmo (where no terrorist ever died), 2 Serb war-crimes prisoners died in European jails in the same week (one was denied medical care). The first to die was Milan Babic. The second to die after his request for medical care was denied was Slobodan Milosevic. Most of the world will yawn or cheer these developments, of course. But there is a 3rd Serb who is currently being railroaded by the same EU officials, along with some left-wing American help. Years ago, CBS's Dan Rather sent...

'Minutes' man gets Rather curt CBS legend Don Hewitt hasn't been shy about criticizing Dan Rather, but the grand old man of "60 Minutes" had stopped short of publicly recommending termination for the central figure in CBS News' painful 2004 Memogate flap. Until yesterday. "Should Dan Rather have been fired?" Time magazine managing editor Jim Kelly asked the 83-year-old Hewitt during a Court TV journalism panel at Michael's. "Yes," Hewitt answered. He suggested that the 74-year-old Rather - a "60 Minutes" correspondent since stepping down last March as "Evening News" anchor - was politically motivated in airing a controversial pre-election...

On the 26th of September, former Meet the Press moderator Marvin Kalb interviewed Dan (I stick by the story - the story is true) Rather before the National Press Club in a manner which can only be described as shamefully obsequious. During that interview, Kalb remarked "there is absolutely no doubt that journalism was brilliant at the time of 9/11. You were right there in the middle of it - it was brilliant...

Former CBS Anchorman Dan Rather is doing what his idol Bill Clinton did - he's hitting the lecture circuit after leaving his job post-scandal. Move over, Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, Ann Bancroft, C. Everett Koop and even Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson: Dan Rather has signed with American Program Group, which claims to have the most diverse speaker roster in the lecture industry. Besides the aforementioned, APB represents hundreds of famous names from all walks of life, and the group writes on its Web site that Rather is among its luminaries because he "has been the embodiment of the intrepid...

Could Dan Rather be in trouble again? A new book on Castro tells of a staged Dan Rather interview that was master-minded by a Clinton lawyer. In Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, author Humberto Fontova reveals for the first time how Dan Rather's "60 Minutes" interview with Juan Miguel (Elian Gonzalez's father) was stage-managed by former Clinton lawyer and friend, Gregory Craig. According to a Cuban-American translator from the U.S. Treasury Department: "The questions for Juan Miguel were actually fed to Dan Rather by Gregory Craig. After a taping session, Craig would call Dan over, give him some more instructions and...

Dan Rather's farewell... cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy) click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Dan Rather enters the CBS broadcast center for his last scheduled broadcast of the 'CBS Evening News' March 9, 2005 in New York. Tributes to the 73-year-old newsman were mixed with sniping after his final months were marred by a reporting scandal that tarnished his reputation. REUTERS/Chip East

“These memos are hotter than a MOAB” “Rather biased beat me like a redheaded step child” “Me leaving feels like Ive been beaten with a knotted plow line”.....

Dan Rather enters the CBS broadcast center for his last scheduled broadcast of the 'CBS Evening News' March 9, 2005 in New York. Tributes to the 73-year-old newsman were mixed with sniping after his final months were marred by a reporting scandal that tarnished his reputation. REUTERS/Chip East

Hello... I want to have a little fun with my karaoke thing here. (I apologise to the more serious conservatives in here without my kind of goofy sense of humor for this post, but I need a little help) Ok, I want to sing a song and put it into mp3 - it's the words to NY, NY, but I need lyrics to make it relate to Dan Rather. Of course the song will start out "No more spreading the news, I'm leaving today" I can't seem to get too creative on this and was wondering if there were any...

Pajama Party...Dan Rather officially resigns as anchor of CBS News. cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy) click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

. NEVER FORGET .."From here on out, RATHER's toughest job might be convincing conservative critics that he's not a LIBERALLY BIASED JOURNALIST. Bloggers and columnists cited his run-ins with Republican presidents as evidence of his political agenda".. ....shares Los Angeles Times Reporter SCOTT COLLINS, 3/7/2005 NEVER FORGET .

A farewell to Dan Poker by Nathan Carleton March 03, 2005 Just one more week. Just one more week until Dan Rather “retires” from CBS News’s anchor chair and starts filing reports for 60 Minutes. Just one more week until a 24-year run of biased, misleading, politicized TV journalism comes to an end. As Dan’s colleagues give him a hero’s sendoff, remember the rest of the story: 6/17/87: On CBS’s Evening News, Rather says viewers are wrong in believing the Soviet people want freedom. “Despite what many Americans think,” he says, “most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style...

Anti-Americanism continues to grow more powerful and to mutate into increasingly bizarre and pathological forms. After 9/11, masses of people from all over the world not only celebrated America’s tragedy, but even blamed the victims rather than the perpetrators for the terrorist attacks. As the Bush administration attempts to build a coalition against Saddam Hussein, it becomes evident that the American President’s efforts are frustrated by the vehement strain of anti-Americanism in the international environment. And let’s not kid ourselves: anti-Americanism is no dying force in America itself. To be sure, members of the fifth column in the U.S., led...

In the last week of December, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather continued to trail the news broadcasts of its two main rivals. According to the Neilsen ratings, 8.4 million households watched NBC’s Nightly News, while 7.7 were tuned in to ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. For the same time period, CBS drew only 6 million households. The ratings for CBS’s prime time news broadcast have been dropping since September when Dan Rather aired the false Bush Texas National Guard documents on an edition of 60 Minutes. Rather didn’t help his cause any when he finally conceded, if...

Rather got off too easy By Al Knight Denver Post Columnist Article Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 An independent panel's probe of the disputed Sept. 8 "60 Minutes" report on President Bush's National Guard service allows for only one conclusion: The program segment was an example of lousy, if not biased, journalism and most of the culprits responsible, especially CBS producer Mary Mapes, deserved to be fired. However, for reasons not yet clear, CBS anchorman Dan Rather was spared a similar fate. Although Rather has resigned his anchorman position, he will continue to work for CBS on both the Sunday...

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Remember Saturday Night Live, when Eddie Murphy did the "Buckwheat Sings" routine? Now it's Dan Rather's turn. Let's never forget Dan Rather's ugly remark. He said to Imus on-air: "What happened was they got the willies, they got the Buckwheats. Their knees wobbled and we gave it up." [referring to CBS management]. The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil rights leader, chastised Rather for the remark, as reported by Newsmax: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/22/190650.shtml There is another aspect to this. Yeah, Rather can still brag about not getting wobbly knees. When I heard that quote of him, I thought immediately about Solomon's warning...

They also said it was "inappropriate" for Mapes to have helped Burkett get in contact with Joe Lockhart, a political adviser to Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), in the midst of the presidential campaign. But Boccardi said that to conclude CBS was guilty of anti-Bush bias would be to make the same mistake "60 Minutes Wednesday" made — drawing a conclusion without enough evidence. A little later:As a result of Monday's report, CBS News said it had appointed one of its executives, Linda Mason, to a newly created job of senior vice president of standards and special projects,...

Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick Thu Dec 30, 7:00 PM ET Ibd It 's been nearly 3 1/2 months since former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and retired Associated Press chief executive Louis D. Boccardi were named to an independent panel to investigate the "60 Minutes" story that used forged documents to allege Bush shirked his duties when in the Texas Air National Guard in the 1960s and 1970s. The panel was named Sept. 22, 14 days after the story aired and two days after Rather finally stopped denying that the documents were bogus and admitted the story was a mistake....

In the year of Rathergate and Dan's fall from grace, Americans may be particularly receptive to the Media Research Center's 17th annual awards for the most biased, manipulative or downright goofy quotes from liberals who dominate the elite media. I'm honored to serve, once again, on MRC's distinguished panel of conservatively biased judges. Here are some of the highlights from among the winners and runners up of Best Notable Quotables of 2004: Captain Dan the Forgery Man Award: "The story is true. The story is true.I appreciate the sources who took risks to authenticate our story. So, one, there is...

It's only appropriate that we Republicans - in the spirit of appreciation, graciousness, charity and comity - give thanks to those whose contributions were instrumental in securing control of both houses of Congress, a majority of governorships, a plurality of state legislatures, a clear majority of the popular vote (for the first time in 16 years) and, of course, the re-election of President George W. Bush.

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Excerpt .. balance at link The Education of Dan Rather From the golden age of network TV to the end of its hegemony. Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST Life is complicated, people are complicated, and most of us are a jumble of virtues, flaws and contradictions. I like to try to understand the past, try to put it together in a way that makes sense to me. This can involve judging not only your own actions and decisions but those of others, which can be hard. I have a friend who once said in the middle of a...

The conservatives keep racking up victories. Sen. Arlen Specter was taken to the woodshed after winning his election. He appeared to warn President Bush not to select Supreme Court nominees who oppose abortion rights. He ended up being slapped around by conservative colleagues and being forced to promise that he will do whatever President Bush wants. He had made the concessions to get appointed chairman of the Judiciary Committee.*** Dan Rather, do you hear that knocking? It's Buckhead at the door with a pink slip. Courage Dan, your anchor seat is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. Your future is...

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Catastrophic Coverups... Hall of FameCBS gives Gunga Dan the boot! This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

<p>Announced on ABC Radio News, Dan Rather leaving CBS News. No details.</p> <p>" NEW YORK (AP) -- Dan Rather has announced he will step down as "CBS Evening News" anchor next March."</p>

The liberal, Old Media is seeing red: red people, red states... This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

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Dan Rather: Fairly UnbalancedSeptember 22, 2004 I believe we now have conclusive proof that: (1) Dan Rather is not an honest newsman who was simply duped by extremely clever forgeries; and (2) We could have won the Vietnam War. A basic canon of journalism is not to place all your faith in a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago who hates the target of your story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years. And that's true even if you yourself are a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago (an on-air paddling from Bush 41)...

KERRY: Well, two leading national news networks have both said the president's characterization of my health-care plan is incorrect. One called it fiction. The other called it untrue. BUSH: In all due respect, I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations about -- oh, never mind. Anyway, let me quote the Lewin report. The Lewin report is a group of folks who are not politically affiliated. They analyzed the senator's plan. It cost $1.2 trillion