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Dan Rather’s Blunder: The Day Old Media Died?
Washington Dispatch.com ^
| September 13, 2004
| Editorial by CK Rairden
Posted on 09/13/2004 3:24:34 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Editorials Dan Rathers Blunder:
The Day Old Media Died? Editorial by CK Rairden September 13, 2004
The coverage of the presidential campaign saw an interesting turn during the month of August. The most damaging aspect to either candidate came from a group of veterans called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But the old media tried to ignore them and shut them out of the campaign. Enter the new media, a combination of the Internet blogosphere, Matt Drudge, talk radio and Fox News.
They crammed the SwiftVets down the collective throats of the old media, and as they never attempted to do their jobs, they lost the battle. The old media candidate, John F. Kerry, was so rattled that he hid from all media after August 9th. Kerry apparently was paralyzed with fear, afraid to answer the very pointed questions that emerged from the book, Unfit for Command, the number one best-seller written by the SwiftVet leader John ONeill.
So the old media picked last week to strike back. You could just feel the protest, how dare these bloggers and Matt Drudge join talk radio and Fox News and take over the coverage of this campaign. So they trotted out old media dinosaur Dan Rather to put these upstarts in their place.
Rather and CBS fired up 60 Minutes II with claims of incredible documents ready to show that President George W. Bush got special treatment in 1972 and 1973 in the Texas National Guard. Armed with these memos and a partisan Kerry hack named Ben Barnes, Rather carefully laid out his case....
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; danrather; killian; memos; rather; rathergate
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"They are losing news consumers to a group of people who are very creative, seem to never sleep and run on a 5-minute news cycle."
YES!
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:24:37 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Rather is a crook...Rather is a crook...Coverup!!!!
Where's deep throat now?
2
posted on
09/13/2004 3:27:27 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: KeyLargo
Anyone up changing the words to "The Day the Music Died"?
3
posted on
09/13/2004 3:27:49 PM PDT
by
camboianchristmas
(Please feel free to blame my poor spelling on the public school system)
To: KeyLargo
They are losing news consumers to a group of people who are very creative, seem to never sleep and run on a 5-minute news cycle."Thus,the pjs';)
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:29:14 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve to keep us free.)
To: camboianchristmas
Well, FOX News just did a real ZINGER on old CBS, right on cue, just minutes before Danny Boy has to go onto the CBS airs and maybe explain himself. Fox just had a document expert from Phoenix on the FOX aires, saying that the Signatures and Body of Text were FORGED FRAUDS no questions asked... HELLO!!! 8-)
To: KeyLargo
Mr. Dan has definitely hastened the MSM's march toward irrelevancy.
To: KeyLargo
"They are losing news consumers to a group of people who are very creative, seem to never sleep and run on a 5-minute news cycle." Bartender! - Coffee and Jolt Cola for the house!
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:31:55 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kerry Kool-Aid: Changes flavors with every sip. Being Wrong is better than being F'n Wrong.)
To: Huber
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:33:26 PM PDT
by
TaxRelief
(Kerry lied and good men died, and Moms worried, and heroes were spit on, and children were ostraci..)
To: KeyLargo
"They are losing news consumers to a group of people who are very creative, seem to never sleep and run on a 5-minute news cycle."
Don't forget the all important: Wear pajamas!
9
posted on
09/13/2004 3:34:41 PM PDT
by
Republican Red
(We're going to win one for the gipper...they're going to lose one for the flipper)
To: KeyLargo
Dan Rathers Blunder: The Day Old Media Died?Singing...
Bye Bye Miss Anti-American Pie...
10
posted on
09/13/2004 3:35:39 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
To: camboianchristmas; doug from upland
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:35:54 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve to keep us free.)
To: Republican Red
Don't forget the all important: Wear pajamas!Speak for yourself.
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:36:20 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
To: WashStateGirl
She did a good job debunking the memos, thank you Brit Hume. This article is great. The Day the old Media died.....along with the dinosaur himself, danrather.
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:38:33 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: camboianchristmas
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:43:47 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)
To: KeyLargo
Excellent post, excellent commentary.
The ferocious, rapid unmasking by New Media of Rather's blatant forgeries and the rest of his completely fraudulant campaign is indeed one of those moments when history has been made.
I am fortunate to be alive on this glorious day. It reminds me of the day the German people tore down the Berlin Wall.
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:46:02 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: Cathryn Crawford
Ping. Have you told this guy about FR?
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:47:38 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: Poohbah
Thanks - I was beginning to think I was alone -- in my undies and sox!
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:50:52 PM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
To: KeyLargo
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ANYONE who votes for Kerry AFTER knowing this data
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John Kerry, director of the Vietnam Veterans against the War,
testified before special session the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
April 22, 1971
KERRY GAVE TESTIMONY BASED UPON FALSE INFORMATION
THAT KERRY KNEW AHEAD OF TIME TO BE FALSE!
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/Pitkin.jpg)
September 6, 2004 -- **BREAKING** In Yesterday's Lies: Steve Pitkin and the Winter Soldiers, Scott Swett tells the story of a former VVAW member and participant in the Winter Soldier Investigation who states that John Kerry and others pressured him to give false testimony about American atrocities in Vietnam. After more than 33 years, Pitkin is the first Winter Soldier "witness" to file a legal affadavit regarding that event...
My name is Steve Pitkin, age 20, from Baltimore. I served with the 9th Division from May of '69 until I was airvaced in July of '69. I'll testify about the beating of civilians and enemy personnel, destruction of villages, indiscriminate use of artillery, the general racism and the attitude of the American GI toward the Vietnamese. I will also talk about some of the problems of the GIs toward one another and the hassle with officers.
-- Steve Pitkin, Winter Soldier Investigation, February 1, 1971.
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Steve Pitkin Affadavit, August 31, 2004
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Steve Pitkin DD-214
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/graphics/PitkinDD214.jpg
Steve Pitkin WSI testimony
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Steve Pitkin WSI video clips -- February 1, 1971 (4:16, 1.6MB)
http://www.wintersoldier.com/video/pitkin2.wmv
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Timeline of a traitor.
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Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddams Defense
arabnews press release 25 August 2004
NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
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![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/protest.jpg)
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. 65-June 66
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam.
The only Vietnamese he ever met was
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on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation:
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But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."
Free online version of
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You can read it online right now.
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/newsoldier.jpg)
Kerry hopes everyone
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NEW:
Without question,
we were held captive longer
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the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.
Excerpt from Stolen Honor website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE
Jane Fonda tells the student audience at the Michigan State University in 1969:
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Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.
Steve Pitkin Affadavit, August 31, 2004
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=PitkinAff
John F. Kerry Timeline of a traitor
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html
Kerry's disrespect in 1971
to USA Symbols Video
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Real Player
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Quick Time
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AOL
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Send this url for the Stolen Honor website
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:57:12 PM PDT
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(MAKE SURE YOUR YOU ARE CURRENTLY REGISTERED AND VOTE Nov 2nd!)
To: ErnBatavia
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posted on
09/13/2004 3:57:33 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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