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Dan Rather on Bush report: ‘We reported a true story—that’s why I’m no longer with CBS News’
Yahoonews ^ | 5/2/2012 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 05/02/2012 5:16:13 PM PDT by Signalman

Dan Rather, former "CBS Evening News" host and current star of Mark Cuban's HDNet, has been out promoting his new book, "Rather Outspoken."

In an interview with Piers Morgan on Tuesday, Rather recalled the last conversation he had with George W. Bush after his controversial 2004 CBS News report on the former president's Air National Guard service record.

"I was at the White House for a briefing for reporters, and I asked him a couple of questions and he answered the questions," Rather said. "And then afterward he said to me, 'I hope you'll be happy retired in Austin.' That's my home. I had no intention of retiring in Austin. I have a passion for my work and I plunged myself back into doing work. But that's the only conversation I've had with him since."

Rather also defended the report that led to the end of his network news career.

"We reported a true story," he said. "That's why I'm no longer with CBS News."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: laweeks

“Ah, but the Bush story! That’s where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that’s where I . . . . “


Except Rather never had balls-—steel or any other.


21 posted on 05/02/2012 5:57:44 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: Signalman
Captain Dan the Newsman seems a tad confused. Perhaps this will help:

Rather's Ruin and the Rise of the Pajamahadeen

22 posted on 05/02/2012 5:59:50 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
roflol... De Nile, it’s not just a river in Egypt.

Haha! Agreed! The old fool was proven...PROVEN...wrong and he still can't admit failure. What a self-centered jerk. He may have done some decent work as a young man...but he aged poorly.
23 posted on 05/02/2012 6:05:30 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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To: Signalman
DAN RATHER needs to change his last name to DAN BROWN....
Since he is so perpetually full of sh*t....

Pardon blunt assessment...

24 posted on 05/02/2012 6:07:33 PM PDT by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: dfwgator
“Ahh but the strawberries....”

".....courage.......courage......."

25 posted on 05/02/2012 6:13:01 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Signalman
feh... you're no longer at cBS cause you're crazier than a sh!thouse RAT!!!
26 posted on 05/02/2012 6:17:00 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Signalman

Dan should spend the rest of his life helping OJ find the “real killer.”


27 posted on 05/02/2012 6:20:23 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Signalman

It was absolutely unquestionably true .... but false.


28 posted on 05/02/2012 6:50:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: Signalman
"We reported a true story," he said. "That's why I'm no longer with CBS News."

Still delusional, after all these years.

29 posted on 05/02/2012 7:14:04 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Signalman
I've just got one word for ya,Dan....

COURAGE!


30 posted on 05/02/2012 7:19:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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31 posted on 05/02/2012 7:20:14 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: Signalman

First his credibility, then his sanity. Dan gave it all to advance the left’s agenda.


32 posted on 05/02/2012 7:42:15 PM PDT by TChad
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33 posted on 05/02/2012 11:56:20 PM PDT by Autonomous User ( I guess a liberal and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like, daddy.)
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To: Autonomous User

Baghdad Bob was more entertaining than ol’ Dan.


34 posted on 05/03/2012 4:20:18 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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