Posted on 09/14/2004 10:16:05 PM PDT by kattracks
Critics have gone beyond questioning the credibility of CBS anchorman Dan Rather.
Some are now calling for his resignation, a boycott of CBS and a federal investigation just a week after Mr. Rather stepped before "60 Minutes II" cameras, claiming he had damaging memos that proved President Bush shirked his National Guard duty three decades ago.
A small, initial chorus of suspicious Internet bloggers soon grew into a caterwaul of mainstream journalists who disputed Mr. Rather's claims.[snip]
According to a statement yesterday, CBS "has mounted a steadfast defense" of the documents, with no comment about a New York Times report yesterday that detailed a "deepening concern" among Mr. Rather's anxious colleagues who want him to come clean and reveal his sources.
"We have no reaction to that report. None at all," CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said yesterday.
Some believe CBS has done more than compromise its journalistic integrity, however.
"Congress has held hearings on [radio shock jock] Howard Stern and 'wardrobe malfunctions' at the Super Bowl. It has held hearings on the networks' disastrous performance on Election Night 2000. Now a network is party to a fraud committed with the obvious intent of influencing an election. Where are the hearings?"
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
What's the best way to do that? Should we start a thread soley for that purpose? Name names and keep it bumped? Is there one active now?
The only good hearings would do - if held before the election - would be to suck more oxygen out of Kerry's flagging campaign, and other events are already doing that. Edwards has vanished from the news and Kerry attracts attention only when he makes another gaff.
Can the trail lead to CBS execs? They could have forced DR to admit he got hoaxed, no? Or if he/his staff was source then fire him/them? Or if DNC/Kerry was source, expose them? Any of these could save CBS face and fight another day...a new anchor...another candidate. But their insistence (in the face of clear evidence) leads to suspicion that CBS heads are culpable. Perp walk, anyone?
Come on this story hasn't got legs as others said when it first broke [sarcasm].
I agree. No hearing for now. Let Rather and CBS slowing swing in the wind until at least November 2.
I just noticed that if you spell D.Rather backwards, you end up with...
REHTARD.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I saw that--it would undoubtedly have come out my nostrils and spewed all over my keyboard!
If I right click over the image, can I download it onto my hard drive and send it as an attachment on my emails?
You are my hero!
And if he refuses to resign, can you impeach a network broadcaster? :)
No need to impeach. The free market has a wonderful way of self-correcting. Will the last c B.S. viewer please turn the lights off when you leave?
If CBS reveals the source of the forgeries, they and the kerry campaign go down. That's a given. Some nobody didn't just walk in cold from the street and hand these to them. That scenario has "set-up" written all over it and they would not have run the "story." These docs came from DNC or kerry campaign or moveon.org or somebody important in the democratic party. They have painted themselves into a corner and all they can do is try to tough it out. I believe that eventually, the source of the forged memos will come out anyway. But even if that's not until after the election, CBS has been neutralized. Nobody can believe them or their star anchor anymore. They and he have been neutralized.
But Rather's ultimate fate is going to be much worse. He is going to be the case study for shoddy journalism in future textbooks. Rather's lack of journalistic integrity, and his tortured denial of the facts when they are punching him right in the nose, is going to act as a warning to those budding journalists who would think to perpetrate this type of fraud.
Will the last c B.S. viewer please turn the lights off when you leave?
Which raises another question: What does the "C" in CBS stand for--"complete" maybe?
lol, good 'find'!
Could you post some cliff notes from the LA Times article? I'm not registered at their site.
Yep; I'll do so as soon as a thread is posted naming those sponsors. As I don't watch C-BS, or the other alphabet channels (and haven't since the 2000 election....their left-wing bias almost made me more ill than Algore's attempted coup), I'll wait patiently to add the sponsors to my boycott list.
I believe the French boycott has quite effectively hurt the other traitors to the USA.
Exactly. The issue here goes far beyond party. It needs to be and remain clear that Dan Rather is being attacked not because he wasn't favorable to the President, but because he deliberately lied in his broadcast. Democrats may not like Republicans, but they also don't like being lied to.
Oxymoron
They and he have been neutralized.
Nah, I much prefer the term: neutered
Then how come they're not better pets now?
Kerry is toast.
And I have the jam!
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