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

Posted on 09/09/2004 8:54:29 PM PDT by MrChips

I am just loggining in. I understand that Rather used the documents as part of his Guard story. But why are he and CBS the culprit? Didn't the AP get the released documents originally? Where do they come in? I am confused. Please explain.

Signed,

Tired Schoolteacher


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: forgery; killian
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1 posted on 09/09/2004 8:54:31 PM PDT by MrChips
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To: MrChips

Search "CBS" or "Rather"


2 posted on 09/09/2004 8:55:43 PM PDT by Sunshine55 (Anal sex is not a family value!)
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To: Howlin

She can explain it best. :)


3 posted on 09/09/2004 8:55:44 PM PDT by TheBigB ("As God is my witness...I thought turkeys could fly.")
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To: MrChips

I'd like to know also.


4 posted on 09/09/2004 8:55:47 PM PDT by bayourod (You're either for President Bush or against him. There is no "but...")
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To: Sunshine55

Why, is Cronkite already eulogizing his successor again?


5 posted on 09/09/2004 8:58:34 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: MrChips

Good summary here:

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


6 posted on 09/09/2004 8:59:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: MrChips
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.

7 posted on 09/09/2004 9:01:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Bush 53%)
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To: MrChips

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


8 posted on 09/09/2004 9:02:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MrChips
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.
9 posted on 09/09/2004 9:02:21 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: MrChips

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.


10 posted on 09/09/2004 9:03:11 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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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.

11 posted on 09/09/2004 9:03:23 PM PDT by tjg
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To: SamAdams76
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?

12 posted on 09/09/2004 9:04:03 PM PDT by Grim
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To: Billthedrill

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


13 posted on 09/09/2004 9:04:06 PM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
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To: MrChips

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!


14 posted on 09/09/2004 9:04:16 PM PDT by Quix (PLEASE EMAIL ZELL MILLER AND OTHERS INSISTING HE SPEAK OUT LOTS)
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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!
15 posted on 09/09/2004 9:04:50 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Kill all Islamic terrorists now. Then they cannot kill our sons and daughters tomorrow)
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To: MrChips; Buckhead; TankerKC; Howlin
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.
16 posted on 09/09/2004 9:05:06 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko (Oh, and Dick Cheney too.)
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To: SamAdams76

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


17 posted on 09/09/2004 9:05:10 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: MrChips

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'.


18 posted on 09/09/2004 9:05:12 PM PDT by Enterprise
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Signed, Tired Schoolteacher

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

:-)

19 posted on 09/09/2004 9:05:56 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: tjg
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.
20 posted on 09/09/2004 9:06:29 PM PDT by kenth
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