Shouldn't Rather resign?
Based on previous experience in the print media, I'm betting that Rather will be put on a very short leash from here on out. Maybe enough to make him resign.
It doesn't matter whether this debacle does or doesn't get completely exposed in the media. His colleagues now know that Rather's news judgement has become warped and questionable. Probably more than a few news pros at CBS now believe that its beyond time for him to be put out to pasture, and that he's going senile.
True pros - and I'm sure there are some at CBS - will refuse to work in an organization that relies on Rather's declining news judgement.
LOLOLOL
Maybe it's 1420 MHz (frequency of Hydrogen, lighter than airhead, highly explosive).
Hey Freepers - Got to www.cbsnews.com and go to contact us and demand Dan Rather resign for voilation of journalistic ethics. These scum have no shame & need to save face by kicking Dan Blather out.
Remind them that you have sent letters to their sponsors that the sponsors don't have any ethics either if they advertise on a show w/o ethics and that you won't buy their products.
Can someone PLEASE tell me what the new fascination is with "what's the ____, Kenneth?"
Yes, I realize it is a play on an R.E.M. song, but someone, please.... why? How did this get started here? Did everyone suddenly tire of getting their beeber stuned?
There is one thing that deeply concerns me.
These documents are obviously done without a second's thought on a modern word proccessing program. Probably Microsoft Word, as so many have shown to be a perfect match.
It is truly frightening to think what CBS would have gotten away with if they'd been typed on a vintage typewriter. It raises the question of how many other stories have been falsified in the past with no questions asked.
It also is very, very strange that they would be such poor forgeries. I am so anxious for someone to get to the source of where these came from.
They've redeemed themselves with the photos:
CBS 60 Minutes Uncovers Incriminating PHOTOS of Bush in Alabama '73
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1211726/posts
wow, first powerline picks up on the discourse here at FR and gets credit for "breaking" the forgery story, and now Howlin's tagline is ripped off.
All for the good of the country I guess.....:)
Everyt time I see this thread-title, I smile.
Dan
Rather should resign....
Robert Strong was a friend and colleague of Killian who ran the Texas Air National Guard administrative office in the Vietnam era. Strong, now a college professor, also believes the documents are genuine. "They are compatible with the way business was done at the time. They are compatible with the man that I remember Jerry Killian being," says Strong. "I don't see anything in the documents that is discordant with what were the times, what was the situation and what were the people involved."
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211995/posts
Did anyone see Nightline. My gosh, what a bit of trash that show was last night. Here is my take. They were ready to run with the CBS fake documents and then had to redo the show in a hurry.
Kopple even said at the begining they would have run with it if they had gotten what CBS and Dan Rather had.
Talk of the docs being fake was burried beneath some rediculas garbage about the campaigns being negative. It was the most disjointed show I have ever seen.
The fake docs had to have blown a whole in what they were planning and they had to do a hurry up last minute edit job that did not work well.
How the mighty have fallen! From the Tiffany Network to the Big Lots Network! )))KER-PLUNK(((
I learned my lesson...
NEVER SLEEP...MUST KEEP FREEPING!!!
This is from the Kerry Spot on NRO:
"But as word of the widow's skepticism broke, Drum appeared to conclude that CBS needs to mount a better, more detailed defense for the documents (besides, "trust us").
Things are still up in the air. At this point, there are enough legitimate questions about these memos that I really think CBS is going to have to provide additional information if they want them to be taken seriously.
One other point: I also heard through the grapevine yesterday that one CBS producers was very confident about this story, and that this person thought there was more revelations to come about Bush's National Guard years.
And this exchange just occured on Fox News:
Chris Wallace on Fox News this morning: “I thought the reference to Paris Hilton was a dead giveaway.”
More Wallace; At some point [CBS] is going to have to explain the discrepancies between this memo and what appears to be possible with the technology at the time… I don’t think they’ll have a huge impact on the campaign.
Fox & Friends Host: Should CBS reveal its sources?
Chris Wallace: What, are you trying to pull a Chris Wallace on me?"
I'm really hoping Chris Wallace's Paris Hilton comment has nothing to do with Dubya. I hope we don't have a W sex tape in our future. I didn't see the segment, and I pray that that isn't the case.