Rather's CBS Colleagues in 'Deep Distress'

NewsMax .com ^ | 9/14/04 | Carl Limbacher

[Illuminatas]

The words I want to hear more than anything in the world - "Hello, welcome to CBS NEWS. Bernard Goldberg reporting. Dan Rather is on assignment."

[Guna]

Has "America's Most Trusted Journalist", Walter Cronkite issued a statement about this? It would seem a natural to hear him defend his boy, Dan...

[Lijahsbubbe]

I can't imagine him knowingly defending something he knew not to be the case."

Why not? Rather himself said that he believes that a person can be a liar and still be an honest person.

[Algae]

Am I crazy, or does missing the guard physical seem to be a lead in to the Kitty book, trying to smear Bush as a drug user. I'm not usually a conspiracy person, but I think the Dems were trying to set Bush up. I think Dan's part of the plot was just the beginning.

[rashley]

According to Rush (yesterday), Rather is to retire in the April '05 timeframe.

[The Great RJ]

As the evidence of the forgery continues to mount I think CBS will eventually have to fold and give Rather the boot. The worst for CBS will be having to reveal that they got the forgery from a DNC operative and Rather and company were willing tools of the Kerry camp and not objective journalists. It sure is fun watching biased liberal CBS squirm.

[freepertoo]

Pinnacle of the Profession...not sure there's been such a thing for sixty years or so. I've been reading about what the pinnacles of the profession did to Joe McCarthy, and it ain't honest, pretty, or professional.

[Fredgoblu]

"I'm confused by some of what I've heard today," he offered, before insisting that if Rather's documents were indeed forged, it was an innocent mistake.

Yeah, right...and there is a Santa Claus.

The forgery itself was not a mistake, nor was their broadcast a mistake, nor were the questions that he constructed using the shaky foundation.

This is pure and simple partisanship. How else can you explain the stonewalling that Rather's doing? The memos are obvious forgeries...so he loses journalistic credibility (if there was any to begin with) with each denial on the C^BS Evening News.

[Richard Kimball]

I would if he weren't.

[Fredgoblu]

"You're dealing with genuine professionals. The last thing in the world that any of these people would want is to phony something," he told the Times.

C'mon...this is the same Dan Rather that vehemently argued in Florida--after the Supreme Court decision--that "what this absolutely does not mean is that George Bush won the election." This guy's a Democrat fruit loop, for crying out loud...his partisanship and phony-ness is as thinly veiled as it gets!

[Attillathehon]

The last thing in the world that any of these people would want is to phony something,"

No, the last thing in the world that these people expected was to be caught by bloggers. Who knows what CBS etal. got away with before the internet.

[stripes1776]

"You're dealing with genuine professionals. The last thing in the world that any of these people would want is to phony something," he told the Times.

Phony is not a verb. Not only do these so called professional journalists take great liberty with the English language, they take great liberty with the truth as well.

[meatloaf]

I wouldn't either but I would sell tickets.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Bad Day at Black Rock"

[Condor51]

There was a time when CBS and the Associated Press were the pinnacle of the profession.

No offense but are you series?

Do you mean C^BS was a 'pinnacle of it's profession' - "at the time" - when on Fed 27, 1968 Walter Cronkite went on air and said that the Vietnam War was lost?

Which btw just happened to be after the Tet Offensive, which was a MAJOR defeat for the VC and NVA and a 'HUGH' victory for the US & ARVN military. You mean like "that time"?

I could go back further to WWII, but 36 years is a pretty good example of leftist media bias.

[Fenris6]

"I've talked to colleagues who would love to see more of a defense," he told the Times.

Please wait until I can catch my breath. I've been laughing hysterically all week long.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I can't respond to earlier years but CBS was THE best news gathering organization in the 1960s. Richard Salant was the news executive in those days and I doubt he would have put up with a pompous ass like Dan Rather for very long.

[ladtx]

Gee Pollyanna ... are you really that silly?

Gee, are you really that goofy? Maybe you better do a little critical reading on my post to get a better understanding of what I was conveying. I'm hardly a Pollyanna.

[RonF]

Please.

Sorry, I don't take your meaning. Unless you are expressing skepticism. In which case, all I can say is that I've seen a lot of people here on FR with no love lost for what's called the Mainstream Media, and I doubt that Freepers are the most extreme example of that.

I also think that there's a possibility that a Bush supporter (although I very much doubt it'd be someone connected with the Bush campaign) did this in an effort to discredit Kerry.

Or it could be a Kerry supporter doing this for the obvious reasons. But I figure that the least likely possibility is that anyone connected with either the Kerry or Bush campaigns would be the origin of this.

[RonF]

C^BS

HAH! Very good.