Posted on 10/19/2008 1:13:22 PM PDT by theothercheek
Earlier in the week, disgraced former CBS anchor Dan Rather told attendees of Time Warner's Politics 2008 Summit that the press “has been in a defensive posture for some time,” that pressure from conservatives has led to “self-censorship” and that journalists should be “Fiercely independent and even ornery from time to time.” ...
Um, this would be the same Dan Rather who exercised self-censorship in his fawning interview with Saddam Hussein in 2003 - whom he knew wouldn't hesitate to pull out his sidearm and shoot him between the eyes while the camera was rolling if he got pissed off at his line of questioning. ...
It gets better ... read more here.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestilettoblog.com ...
Well, we know already that intelligence shouldn’t be in a journalist’s DNA.
Dan, find any more forgeries lately?
Obviously, the answer is “no” since he wouldn’t know one if he saw one ...
I’m Dan Rather and I approved this shamelessness.
exactly
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