They just never go away do they?
And a shout-out to Buckhead for his part in exposing the fraud.
Posted on 09/08/2024 12:30:08 PM PDT by Rummyfan
When the film Truth premiered in 2015, only a little over ten years after the events depicted, film critics seemed to take the movie as a historical account. Based on Mary Mapes’s memoir Truth and Duty, the film was something else again. It prompted John and me to revisit the story in the Weekly Standard article “Rather shameful.” On Power Line I itemized “problems” with the film in “Lies of Truth.”
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the CBS News broadcast that we helped expose as a fraud in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election. I find that even those who vaguely recall the scandal know next to nothing about it. I like to say that we contributed to Dan Rather’s early retirement from CBS News. We foolishly thought that a corner had been turned.
However, Dan Rather lives! He is celebrated as a lion of truth, justice, and the American way. Earlier this year Netflix broadcast a documentary that is illustrative of the continuing descent in which we find ourselves. This is what I wrote about it on Power Line.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
They just never go away do they?
And a shout-out to Buckhead for his part in exposing the fraud.
Rather invented the new journalism: Fake But Accurate
Dan Rather is one of the pioneers of fake news.
Back at a time when a serious news reporter would be mortified to be found out as being a tool working for the NWO, today their celebrated for their treason.
Our Republic is in trouble and only prayer and fasting can save us.
Biden/Harris have spun “fake but accurate” into “truth over facts.”
CBS News: Forging Ahead
If Rather had just quoted the memo on the Chyron instead of showing the “real” document, some people on the right would have just complained that it doesn’t sound right rather than having evidence of fraud.
Still running strong on the adrenochrome...
Good summary from the Powerline guys and the CYA attempts by Rather and Mapes after the cBS inquiry commission had discredited them:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine/1651916/rather-shameful/
True - but that would have invited demands to produce the document to prove it even existed...and if he produced that same one, that would have made it twice as bad - a phony story and then allegations they produced a phony document after the story aired as evidence, since the documents were fake.
You guys do know this was all a disinformation campaign by the pro-Bush side to shutdown any talk of Bush’s “dishonorable” service in the Air National Guard to avoid military service in Vietnam.
Fake documents were circulated by the pro-Bush side, the folks at CBS and Dan Rather were either really stupid for falling for it or just doing what fake news does.
The truthful story concerning Bush using the Guard to avoid Vietnam and his refusal to honor his Guard service commitments without penalty was buried after a successful
disinformation op.
Bush was and always will be a tool of the Deep State.
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Proportional fonts stopped Kenneth’s frequency.
All of that digging their heals in until the evidence just continued to be overwhelming.
That isn’t the one I thought it might be - there was one where Rather claimed the raised “th” in one document was the same in another document produced that was known to be authentic - but you could clearly see even on their own display graphic in the news story they were in no way similar.
Yep, no doubt about it. I just saw that clip for the first time today. It was a FReeper Rumble channel that I subscribe to.
At the time I followed the story pretty closely here on FR but that was so long ago. I remember enough to know that CBS flat out lied and their spin on Bush was nonsense.
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