Posted on 09/20/2004 12:27:54 PM PDT by TheGeezer
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Kerry wants this issue to go away, but Rather keeps doing whatever will keep it going. By now, Kerry knows he can’t win on this point, no matter what he says (he could have gained a bit last week, by demanding CBS come clean, but instead kept quiet, hoping Rather would win his bluff. Oops) . So, the longer this goes on, the worse Kerry suffers.
* Bush is now innoculated, as I said before, against personal attacks. If anything remotely like this comes up between now and November, he or his staff will just shrug and say something on the lines of “well, you know, the last time they used fake douments and hearsay…” and that will be it. Rather has made it harder for Kerry to attack President Bush.
(Excerpt) Read more at polipundit.com ...
That's not what Kerry was saying before 60 Minutes broke the story. Carl Cameron said that Kerry was pushing the story for weeks before it aired.
But Kerry thought the story would wound the president, not himself!
I know! Don't you just love the karma?
It's a convincing speech to those who are skeptical of the war. Dan Rather and his pals will use clips from it and in the coming days say "Fresh from his stunning speech, Senator Kerry hit the campaign trail with renewed energy..."
The weekend pundits will call this the REAL start of the campaign, and say Kerry won the week.
They are in political quicksand, sinking slowly so that we can enjoy it each day as they keep extending the legs of this story.
Yep, Rather really unleashed a stink bomb and it is smelling up the entire DU camp!
Now he is trying to blame it on (the Republicans??? hahaha) or anyone else around him. What a knuckle-head.
He influenced the last election and got away with it, but this time he really screwed Kerry badly. That's what happens when you jack-around and interfere with elections. There is always risk.
This is a terminable offense. If the execs at CBS don't see it, the shareholders, viewers, and sponsors will.
Rather has to go, especially before November. The idea of him calling the election for CBS is laughable.
What is he waiting for nobody is watching him anyway, except as a joke. They are all watching FOX.
This story should not be GONE until seeBS comes clean on who faked the docs, and how they came to seeBS.
LOL!
that is EXCELLENT!
Blessings, Bobo
"This story should not be GONE until seeBS comes clean on who faked the docs, and how they came to seeBS."
Of course it shouldn't be. But you apparently have a lot more faith in the honor of the MSM than do I.
Was Monicagate over the night Bill Clinton confessed to having "misled" the American people? Not by a long shot.
Now that Rather has admitted that the source lied to him, the mystery deepens. As liberal as the press is, Bill Clinton's "confession" did not stop them from pursuing the Monica story, and Dan Rather's "confession" will not stop them from pursuing Rathergate.
Everyone loves a mystery.
And everyone loves a "How the Mighty Have Fallen" story. Dan Rather's spiralling descent in the twilight of his long career makes for fascinating reading.
Far more fascinating to reporters than "John Kerry reinvents his Iraq policy yet again."
Should have dodged that draft.
I can believe it. Its like the last few minutes of a basket ball game when the losing team keeps making bigger mistakes out of sheer desperation.
"Was Monicagate over the night Bill Clinton confessed to having "misled" the American people? Not by a long shot."
If you think this has the legs of Monicagate other than with Freepers, I've got a bridge to sell you.
"Now that Rather has admitted that the source lied to him, the mystery deepens. As liberal as the press is, Bill Clinton's "confession" did not stop them from pursuing the Monica story, and Dan Rather's "confession" will not stop them from pursuing Rathergate."
And interest from the public will dribble away. This is an inside baseball story--Monicagate was about sex.
"Everyone loves a mystery.And everyone loves a "How the Mighty Have Fallen" story. Dan Rather's spiralling descent in the twilight of his long career makes for fascinating reading."
To whom? The average American isn't a huge fan of Dan Rather. He's not a president, not a Hollywood celebrity. The story appears to be a skirmish between us and the left. People don't care.
"Far more fascinating to reporters than "John Kerry reinvents his Iraq policy yet again."
So the MSM are suddenly more interested in taking down one of their own than in electing Kerry? Uh huh.
That may be true to a certain extent, however I just heard Fox earlier that the Times ran a poll on trust over war records and said that 70% think Bush is hiding something about his war record but 58% believe that Kerry is hiding something
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