A seedy old hack asks, "How's my ratings now?"
I cannot watch Rather anymore. Goodbye CBS!
Personally, I don't think CBS was a victim of this hoax. It was more accurately the perpetrator. They deliberately omitted facts that cast doubt on their story. Even after they got caught, they are still doing it. Rather says that other experts can't do a good inspection of these documents because they've been recopied. Why didn't CBS produce better copies, then? Where are the originals? Where did CBS get the documents? If Rather is going to try to manipulate public opinion in order to defeat GW Bush, then in fairness he's got to lay out all the facts and all the evidence.
Whatever gives us the notion that Dan Rather is biased just because sucks up to Fidel Castro?
A seedy old hack asks, "How's my ratings now?"
Putting aside his left-wing politics for a moment, people need to remember that Rather probably sees the Bush family as the beginning of the end of his credibility and has been seeking payback since at least 1988.
You might recall that, in 1988, during the primaries, Rather attacked Bush live on the air over Iran Contra as part of a "gotcha" interview. Unfortunately, the "gotcha" was on Rather, when then-VP Bush pointed out "how would you like it if I tried to frame your whole career on the basis of those 15 minutes of dead airtime when you walk off your show..." all Dirty Dan could do was stammer and babble.
That was the end for Gunga Dan with a lot of people and he knows it.
People are concentrating on those documents...because they are forgeries, fake, and a slap in the face of a free and thinking people. Those forgeries lay the foundation for the more relevent parts of the story and establish the whole thing as nothing but a sham and cheap political hack job.
If Rather thinks so little of the people of this country whom he tries to speak to...and it is clear that he believes we are idiots...then he had best be prepared for a continued fight until the truth of this obviious sham is made known from the rooftops and until his credentials and career are laid low in the mud from whence they have sprung.
CBS lost its credibility when Murrow was hired.
Bravo. Rather has got to go, and not with honors.
From a MRC article nearby:
1) Dan Rather, on Friday's CBS Evening News, spent nearly six minutes defending his Wednesday 60 Minutes story which used 32- year-old memos to impugn President Bush, documents which have come under wide suspicion of being forgeries. But instead of addressing those concerns, Rather stonewalled as he employed loaded language to reiterate the charges about supposed Bush misdeeds and put them in the worst possible light, denigrated his critics as "partisan political operatives" even though many mainstream media outlets have featured experts who concluded the memos are fakes, including NBC News and CNN (see item #2 below), distorted the issue of whether typewriters could do superscript in 1972, discounted the charge that the font used wasn't available on typewriters in the early 1970s by making the irrelevant point that the font was invented in 1931, ignored other font/spacing/kerning issues which have led experts to decide the memos are fakes, and he concluded by having a Bush-bashing author assert the White House was letting the "blogosphere" undermine charges they know are true.
All TOO frequent.
Is the Pope Catholic?
DAN RATHER ... HAVE YOU NO SHAME?
Rather blew in with hurricane Carla and it would be fitting he go out with Ivan.
In the Military, it isn't a physical exam, it is a medical exam.
I would think that the Killians prior to 1984 would have hardly mentioned the name "George W. Bush" other than to note that Killian was commanding officer over Lt. Bush, then the son of the vice president. It is to me somewhat surprising that Lt. Bush would have been discussed in that family.
Is there any evidence that Killian in 1980 voted for the Reagan-Bush ticket, or did he go for Carter-Mondale?