Rather has become the Bagdad Bob of the partisan U.S. media. Should we refer to him as Denial Dan?
BTTT... this is getting good!!
WOW... this just keeps getting better and better!!!
Excellent article. Many very good points made here.
Dan Rather: How dare you attack my journalism!!!
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CBS may not investigate it , but I dont think it will stop there. In a real world other News sources would be jumping on this ABC abd NBC should be digging at this hard as it has to help their ratings, Only problem is they are all a part of the same "Get Bush" Conspiracy.
Maybe Dan can be the new Iraqi information minister. He tells the truth just as much as the 1st one did.
John Podhoretz column in the NYPost said something about Barnes referring to pressure from a particular general who had actually retired the year before. I don't know. I'll go look it up.
The hypocracy is beyond comprehension. The Times (Left,and other left coast), CBS, NBC. We are approaching crisis proportions here guys.
toast.
The proof of forgery is indisputable. TYPEWRITERS CANNOT AUTOCENTER TEXT - It has to be done manually yet both address blocks on the forgeries are autocentered by computer. Read it and weep, Dan!
I will believe that when I see it. Democrats never pay the price for errors, lies, or crimes unless they do something to make the left mad. Dan Rather is a made man and all his buddies will rally to his side. The Republicans won't do anything to rock the boat so he can take risks like this all day long and not worry about the consequences.
I don't see how anyone's going to jail over this. In all likelihood, he's adopted a "that's my story and I'm sticking to it" attitude because he knows he can't survive a vote of no-confidence at CBS if he admits they were fake. He's praying that this will somehow backfire on the Republicans and he'll be a hero.
Pssssttt: Dan:
Laura Bush is really a crankhead biker!!!
And Barbara Bush is really the family pusher!!!
Pass it on...
...Yeah, it had better. I thought on Wednesday that it was scandalous for "60 Minutes" to turn over a good deal of its time on Wednesday night to one Ben Barnes, a one-time Texas political powerhouse who now claims he got George W. Bush into the National Guard.
The problem is not, as some would have it, that Barnes has raised half a million dollars for Kerry. The problem is that Barnes has already lied about this on videotape, and I use the word "lied" without difficulty, where he says he pulled strings for Bush when "I was lieutenant governor of Texas."
The thing is that George W. Bush was sworn into the National Guard in May 1968. Ben Barnes didn't become lieutenant governor until 1969.
From the lies of Ben Barnes to the apparent forgeries of who-knows-who-did-it — why has "60 Minutes" exposed itself in this way?
We all know why. Its producers and others in the media think George Bush deserves to be beaten up now because of the beating administered to John Kerry in August. In some weird way, the editors and producers believe this is fairness at work.
Instead, they have unmasked themselves. Or rather, they have been unmasked by ordinary people who can see what they and their hired experts evidently could not