this is a beautiful thing....the Kerry water carriers have been caught. The Kerry campaign thought this story, kitty kelley would help them...it backfired big time.
I was appalled to see USA Today still running the story with no indication that there is even a question of authenticity as of last night.
CBS News had the story on their website last night without any indication of credibility concerns.
These guys are amazing.
They were a tottering corpse years ago but did not know it. ALTERNATE MEDIA RULES!
That was demonstrably lost a long time ago!
DAN CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
“Dan Rather is the undisputed head pooh-bah of the news division at CBS. Rather has spent 40 years solidifying his position. His former colleague Bernard Goldberg reports that Mr. Rather is extremely sensitive to criticism from any source. In his book "Bias," Mr. Goldberg quotes CBS News President Andrew Haywood: "Dan can't distinguish between mainstream criticism and criticism coming from the extremists. It's all the same to him." Goldberg writes that in the 1980s there was a vice president at CBS whose unofficial title was "vice president in charge of Dan Rather. "His main job was keeping Dan Rather happy." Little wonder, then, that CBS News refuses to acknowledge the liberal bias that is a staple of CBS News. No one can get through to Dan Rather. He is impervious to criticism.”
http://www.bbhq.com/lonely.htm
Dan Rather’s Liberal Bias
http://ratherbiased.com/news/content/view/145/
http://www.mediaresearch.org/projects/rather20th/welcome.asp
http://www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports/2004/report063004_p1.asp
Beautiful. It just keeps getting better! The MSM prints a story that everyone knows is false. Not only does it shred their credibility as a reliable news source, but it makes them appear to be in cahoots with the fraud. This is Christmas come early.
The coming test is going to be whether or not FR and the rest of conservative media can drive them to ground, tree them like a coon, and shine a flash light attached to a 30-06 in their eyes.
How will it be corrected? Rather is an operative of the Kerry cammpaign so mabe he show step down as news reader.
Regarding the Main Stream Media being dead: you are spot on. Basically, we are better at their jobs than they are. We have been all along. Average Americans, the ones who do not seek publicity, work every day, have deep convictions and boat loads of common sense; see through the BS. They always have.
We are told forever by the Manhattan elitists that we are essentially 'fly over' people. Their hubris gives them drunken judgement and they believe they are the only ones with 'superior thoughts'. They are wrong. The surest proof is in watching elections going back to McGovern and seeing them predict one outcome year after year only to be confounded when the silent masses go to the polls.
Its actually quite funny to see each new crop of young, bow tied, ivy educated, self-involved talking head do the same thing in each election cycle. They don't write history about us but in our own way, we make history. My hat is off to the Swift Freepers who killed this CBS story on the merits using their common sense, well before it was allowed to grow.
TankerKC,buckhead, Howlin and Free Republic rocked CBS looking glass.
PING
Read the article and reply #22 and just damn this thread please.
I've Freeped FPM in their comments.
We have some honor at stake here.
Since Fox News pretty much blew away the alphabet networks during the RNC, no doubt this snafu will give CBS a temporary ratings boost.
Liberals: America's Largest Dysfunctional Family. Ya know what? You can slam them in the face with facts and they still don't get it.
The longest lasting effect of all this is that, if the MSM were able to produce the originals the damage to their reputation has been done because the scramble to dissemble points directly to motive on their part for the original broadcast, somewhat akin to David admitting that he used Sarin and an A-Bomb to dispatch Goliath.