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Rather Says Will No Longer Address Charges of 'Professional Rumor Mill'
ratherbiased.com | 9/12/04

Posted on 09/13/2004 4:28:46 AM PDT by ricoshea

Rather Says Will No Longer Address Charges of 'Professional Rumor Mill'

September 12, 2004, 21:39:50 EDT Dan Rather was quoted in the New Zealand Herald as saying that there was no use debating the authenticity of his documents which he claims are proof that George W. Bush committed any number of unethical acts while in the National Guard. "Until someone shows me definitive proof that they are not [authentic], I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumour mill."


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KEYWORDS: cbsnews; killian; rather; zerocredibility
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To: Angry Enough
Wow. It's good to know Emperor Dan doesn't have to answer to anyone if he doesn't feel like it.

Hey, the Emperor (Dan) "Without Clothes"!!! From: Hans Christian Andersen.
121 posted on 09/13/2004 7:09:13 AM PDT by danamco
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To: longtermmemmory
so now Rather has the internet AND professional rumor mills to deal with.

Ladies and Gentlement its Dan "LALALALALALALLA" Rather, Sucker 1st class for the DNC.

Where is his e-mail address so we can fill his inbox with opinions from us, the pajamas crowd, and "Shove It" to him???
122 posted on 09/13/2004 7:14:41 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Nathan Zachary
I can't remember, but was Dan caught trying to wear a fake medal?

Yes and until somebody can prove he wasn't, he was.

123 posted on 09/13/2004 7:19:07 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: ricoshea

"Until someone shows me definitive proof that they are not [authentic], I don't see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumour mill."

Document experts weighed in for CNN and ABC concluded that the documents are forgeries. Dan Rather is calling his esteemed colleagues at ABC and CNN members of the professional rumor mill. 

124 posted on 09/13/2004 7:21:32 AM PDT by Zon
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To: ricoshea

I won't rest until Dan resigns. He's a despicble hyper-partisan fool who has no business anchoring an evening news program.


125 posted on 09/13/2004 7:26:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ricoshea
Curious situation. Not only is the burdern of proof on others, but they have to get the proof to Dan, who will not listen until he has proof that he should.

Catch-22.

We have the basic impenetrable delusional system operating in plain view.

126 posted on 09/13/2004 7:42:03 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: ricoshea
Dan Rather has certainly forgotten this part of journalism's Code of Ethics, if not quite a bit more of the Code:

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Be Accountable

Journalists are accountable to their readers, listeners, viewers and each other.

Journalists should:


127 posted on 09/13/2004 7:55:05 AM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Arpege92
I'd love to see someone chase him around with a mike and camera as well. Reporters need to be held accountable...just like they hold politicians accountable.

I'll second or third that suggestion! It's really bad when the reporting and the reporters become the news.

128 posted on 09/13/2004 7:59:18 AM PDT by ThirstyMan
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To: ricoshea

We're professionals??

Unless someone is being paid around here, I will continue to assume that we are all maintaining our amateur status so we can "rumor mill" in the Olympics.


129 posted on 09/13/2004 8:54:15 AM PDT by BaBaStooey (Emma Caulfield.....yum)
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To: airborne

That waste, Dan Rather, is a terrible thing to mind.

BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004


130 posted on 09/13/2004 9:10:17 AM PDT by rock58seg (New Yorkers forget/ignore 9/11/2001, Texans remember the Alamo 3/13 1836)
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To: ricoshea
It would be impossible to do this without access to the documents Rather was given, and he isn't allowing any document expert to examine them.

So, on the one hand he demands definitive proof while with the other hand he withholds the documents that need to be examined to provide that proof.

What a dolt.

131 posted on 09/13/2004 9:16:41 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: mewzilla

Good old Stonewall Dan.... denial & lies.


132 posted on 09/13/2004 9:18:19 AM PDT by pointsal
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