DUmmie FUnnies 11-28-07 ("Rather Speaks On Rathergate")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | November 28, 2007 | HUffies and PJ-Comix

[doorgunner69]

And if the rock under which these folks have been operating is ever fully lifted, I expect what we will find will be a handful of vile traitors

FUnny, when I read this I immediately thought: under rock = under mommy's house.

Fixed the font color for ya PJ..............

[gardencatz]

I hope Rather achieves vindication and prevails in his lawsuit and in the process reveals what we all know to be true - that our current Commander in Chief is burned out coke freak and a booze hound who used influence to get his sorry ass into the National Guard so he wouldn't have to go to 'Nam and then he didn't even have the balls and guts to finish that committment.

Wait...I thought they liked people like this?

Cindie

[NathanR]

Bill Burket disagrees. His latest story is that he retyped them and burned the originals. (Really!)

That story is at least plausible. Too bad it destroys the documents' usefulness as 'evidence'!

[Amityschild]

OMG, I have never read so much hatred and stupidity as I have read here on this HuffPo thread! What morons!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nothing improves your credibility like constantly changing your story to account for inconsistencies and contradictory evidence.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m getting the vibe that with Sumner it’s not business anymore, it’s personal. Just like with Gunga Dan. It’s all about ego. I think the Redstone arsenal has had about all of Rather’s crap he’s gonna tolerate.

[Arrowhead1952]

I personally knew two warrant officers, one LTC and several other people who were involved in this scam. One warrant officer had the nickname of “George the Conn man”, because Conn was his last name.

He and the one LTC Adams, hated Bush for the fact that he was elected Governor of Texas the FIRST time. These people had a vendetta against any conservative person in the military, including me.

[MindBender26]

You may be right.

A couple of basic and valid assumptions about big time TV.

The Suits are cowards. No balls.

Dan is now reasonably well emotionally, but there was a time a few years ago that he could have been in secure facility for a while, for his own good.

Dan has no trouble twisting the truth to make Dan look good. His books are classic examples of this.

Dan may not want to ever sit in an open courtroom. Years ago, when videoing Barbara Walters, cameramen would use a special filter to get rid of wrinkles. Now it’s an electronic circuit. Without that, and unless he has a strong facelift, Dan looks like an old saddle in person. The last time I spent any time up close with him was on the top floor of the Hay Adams Hotel in DC, overlooking the WH, where we were set up to cover to 2000 inauguration. He looked like hell.

I don’t think Dan would do well on the stand. His life has been 50 years of asking questions, not having to answer them.

Secondly, he could come off like Howard Beale the Second when he tried to explain why he didn't feel it was necessary to fully document the supposed supporting paperwork, why he didn't follow the classic rules of journalism, why he ignored advice from experts that the documents were forged, etc.

Regarding his claim for damages because CBS would not put him on the air? Idiocy. Their answer is simple. After what he had done, we were simply trying to protect the Dan Rather of Old and his reputation (and CBS's) from Dan Rather 2006.

Finally, there is no protection he can cite to have others not testify about comments he has made over the years.

In every case in the past when he has been sued, everyone at CBS lined up behind him. Now, they would all draw straws to see who would be the first to put a spear between his ribs.

[donaldo]

I knew when Dan Rather replaced Cronkite that it was over for CBS, insofar as integrity was concerned. To this day I can’t see why they didn’t promote Roger Mudd who was light years ahead of the moonbat Rather. Rather is a clown, Maximus in Minimus.

[dirtbiker]

Halliburton needs to get off their ass and get these cells finished. The HUffies, DUmmies and KOmmies keep talking about them--I want to see them put to use.

Same here. For years, I have seen "evidence" of such cells at Walmart stores, but my sources have alluded that Target is now getting in on the Halliburton/Re-education center movement.

(No sense in Walmart having all the fun, besides, more DUmmies, HUffies, and KOmmies frequent Target than Walmart....)

[MindBender26]

The Eye walked away from Roger, and Bob Scheiffer too.

[I_Like_Spam]

2. The “bogus” TANG documents were planted by Karl Rove to bring down Dan Rather (the only one “speaking moonbat to reality”).

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Suppose for a second that this is true. Doesn’t absolve Rather and CBS in the least, they are the ones who were responsible to determine the authenticity of the documents before they put them on the air as “genuine”. A few minutes of examination and a little bit of thought would have caused CBS to refuse to air the phony documents, the fact they didn’t shows their bias. These weren’t expert forgeries.

In this scenario, Rove would simply have been giving Rather/CBS the opportunity to do something they were inclined to do anyhow, as they were really anxious to get anything on President Bush, regardless of whether it was true or not.

[Charles Henrickson]

I have a feeling that Charles will be coming up with a new Dan Rather song.

More than a feeling. . . .

THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE DAN AWAY
Tune: "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haaa!"

Remember when I broke the news
How Bush got in the Guard
And didn't have to leave
To go to Vietnam?
Well . . .

I pushed that story hard
Just weeks before Election Day
And so of course you know
The thoughts I had in my mind
Like . . .

They're going to give me a prize, Ha-ha!
They're going to give me a prize, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a journalist
Who helps the Democrats all the time
And I'll be happy to put
That nice award
In my trophy case
And they're going to give me a prize, Ha-haaa!

You thought it was a fake
And so you cringed
You cringed when people said
That superscript was not done at that time
Right . . .

The people laughed, I heard them laugh
They laughed, they laughed and laughed
You made me leave
But now you know I'm Rather upset!
So . . .

I'm going to take you to court, Ha-ha!
I'm going to take you to court, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
For a tidy sum
Like six--no, seventy million bucks
And put me back on the Evening News
And make all the viewers watch
And I'm going to take you to court, Ha-haaa!

I read your news
I gave my views
And this is how you pay me back
For all my years of bold unbiased news?!
Hah . . .

Well, you just wait
I'll find the proof
And when I do
They'll know that Dan is not some sort of old unbalanced nut!
'Cause . . .

They're coming to take me away, Ha-ha!
They're coming to take me away, Ho-ho, Hee-hee, Ha-ha!
To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the anchor desk
With lights and cameras and breaking news
And four producers who sit and smile
And tell me that I'm the best
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the Kinko's store
Where fake but accurate faxes fly
And I'll be happy to see
Those daring scoops
Come across my desk
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

[DJ MacWoW]

Charles you are bad. And I love it.

[Charles Henrickson]

all I could say to myself, on each page, is, 'What bullshit. What pure, unadulterated bullshit this whole thing is.

That's what we said about your reporting, Dan.

[Charles Henrickson]

A true warrior slain in the defense of the 4th estate

Loontenant Dan.

[Charles Henrickson]

I have the opinion that Dan will be exonerated by the time all of this really comes out. . . .

I have the opinion that Dan will be institutionalized.

[Mr. Silverback]

That is the best one yet! I can hear Napoleon the 14th singing it in my head, complete with reverb...

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I agree that Rather will someday be championed for standing up for truth.

A TANG Truther.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

He was set up to fall, and then slaughtered in a very public way as a warning to anyone who might dare to question the Fuhrer...

That's Der Chimpenfuhrer to you.