O.K. Fill ME IN. JUST HOW WAS DAN RATHER CAUGHT WITH PANTS DOWN?

[Sunshine55]

Search "CBS" or "Rather"

[TheBigB]

She can explain it best. :)

[bayourod]

I'd like to know also.

[dr_who_2]

Why, is Cronkite already eulogizing his successor again?

[FairOpinion]

Good summary here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9967-2004Sep9.html

[SamAdams76]

I never understood the importance given to newsreaders like Rather and Cronkite. Think about it. All they do is sit there and read the news. They aren't journalists. They aren't out in the field doing the legwork. They simply sit there and read off a teleprompter.

We could pull a bum off the street, blow-dry his hair and put him in a suit and he'd do the job just as well.

[Billthedrill]

Put simply - FR just shook the tree. And the tree's still trembling.

[Delta 21]

Its all something about the news media being caught lying and falsifying documents and such.

It all seems like business as usual to me but a lot of people seem to be concerned.

[Howlin]

No.

There are two sets of documents.

The AP got Bush's flight records through a FOIA lawsuit earlier in the week.

Here is how Rather explained it last night on 60 Mintues:

But 60 Minutes has obtained a number of documents we are told were taken from Col. Killian's personal file. Among them, a never-before-seen memorandum from May 1972, where Killian writes that Lt. Bush called him to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."

Lt. Bush tells his commander "he is working on a campaign in Alabama…. and may not have time to take his physical." Killian adds that he thinks Lt. Bush has gone over his head, and is "talking to someone upstairs."

Col. Killian died in 1984. 60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.

The problem is that appear to be forgeries.

[tjg]

You ask a far reaching question. How or why would Rather, who has been 'journalizing' on the margins for decades, get caught in such a blatantly sloppy forgery?

This story is making me think about Sandy Buger and his absurd robbery of the National Archives. I can see Burger committing proffessional suicide for someone, but Rather? I can't make any sense of it.

[Grim]

We could pull a bum off the street, blow-dry his hair and put him in a suit and he'd do the job just as well.

Isn't that how Rather got the job?

[Howlin]

We've been waiting a LONG time for this day/night.

[Quix]

How was Pan Blather caught with his pants down?

SKERRY was pretending to be ready to receive a football between a player's back legs.

Some are saying his hands were bored while waiting and decided to . . .

Anyway--I really don't know how Pan Blather got caught with his pants down. But the above tale makes about as much sense as the truth about them does!

[MindBender26]

Typeface did not exist when letters were supposedly written, wrong letter head size, people referenced had retired from Guard, man did not type, some symbols in letter could have only been made on computer. No computers in general office use in '73. Letters are proportionally spaced. No proportionally spaced typewriters in AFNG.

MS Word makes letters exactly as shown.

Forgery... and a bad forgery.

Had CBS been fooled by good forgery, that's one thing, but this was a bad armature job, and they aired it!

[Mike Fieschko]

I saw freeper Buckhead's post last night. TankerKC had an earlier post.

Then, this morning, powerlineblog.com started the cascade around 7:50 a.m.

The powerlineblog.com mentions Buckhead's post #47 right in the first entry in that blog topic.

After powerlineblog.com started it, it was like an avalanche starting with a small snowball rolling down the mountain.

[John Jorsett]

Their importance is as gatekeepers. They have the largest say in what goes on the air and in what order.

[Enterprise]

Well, first set yersef down. Take off yer shoes, sip a bit of Jack Daniels. Then, start scrolling through and readin' all the posts. You might get done readin' them all by mornin'.

[Not A Snowbird]

Signed, Tired Schoolteacher

How can you be tired already? School's only been back in session for five minutes.

:-)

[kenth]

I can see Burger committing proffessional suicide for someone, but Rather?

If anything, it could easily be attributed to the loss of sanity the left has been experiencing the last four years. They have completely lost it and they'll do anything to get rid of President Bush. They are irrational.