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Dan Rather To Bush: "Answer The Questions"
NY Observer ^

Posted on 09/15/2004 9:25:23 AM PDT by hawaiian

Dan Rather To Bush: ‘Answer The Questions’

"With respect: answer the questions," said Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor. He was asking a direct question to President George W. Bush, his re-election campaign and his political allies in the press and on the Web. "We’ve heard what you have to say about the documents and what you’ve said and what your surrogates have said, but for the moment, answer the questions.

"I say that with respect," he added. "They’d be a lot stronger in their campaign if they did do that."

On Tuesday, Sept. 14, Mr. Rather remained steadfast despite a brutal onslaught of criticism from Bush defenders—including Laura Bush—critics and competing news organizations over the authenticity of memos reportedly typed by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, Mr. Bush’s squadron commander in the early 1970’s, which suggested that Killian felt pressure from his superior to "sugarcoat" negative evaluations of the future President’s performance.

Since 60 Minutes reported on those documents on Wednesday, Sept. 8, their veracity has been assaulted by Web critics, politicians and document experts who put the burden of proof on Mr. Rather, his producers and on CBS News, and say that the reputation of the news organization is at stake. Full Article


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To: Willie Green

Isn't he 5'11" or are you ignoring the lump of fat coming out of his neck?


81 posted on 09/15/2004 10:00:28 AM PDT by anonymous_user (Still waiting for one reason to support John Kerry...)
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To: hawaiian

It's a good thing I'm not prez, I'd have alot of these people disappear.


82 posted on 09/15/2004 10:01:39 AM PDT by stevio (The Clinton '94 gun ban sunset! WooHoo!)
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To: hawaiian
Is he asking the POTUS to answer questions raised by forged documents? Documents forged for the explicit purpose of smearing the POTUS with lies?

What a joke.

83 posted on 09/15/2004 10:02:00 AM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (Veritas vos liberabit)
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To: anonymous_user
Isn't he 5'11" or are you ignoring the lump of fat coming out of his neck?

Yeah, he's really 5'11".
Unlike Dan, I've already admitted my mistake about getting tripped up by one of those superscript thingies.
Mea culpa.

84 posted on 09/15/2004 10:03:50 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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To: hawaiian

Dan, did you start having relations with goats before or after you stopped beating your wife?

Answer the question Dan.


85 posted on 09/15/2004 10:04:42 AM PDT by IamConservative (A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: hawaiian
Game, set and match.

Prima facie proof of bias if we don't see this one VERY soon:

Dan Rather To KERRY: "Answer The Questions"

86 posted on 09/15/2004 10:06:46 AM PDT by George Smiley (The only 180 that Kerry hasn't done is the one that would release ALL his military records.)
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To: happydogdesign

Oh Oh! The finger on the cheek is a noted Kerry gesture. Is there anything genetic here?


87 posted on 09/15/2004 10:11:03 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: CyberCowboy777

"Is he asking the POTUS to answer questions raised by forged documents? Documents forged for the explicit purpose of smearing the POTUS with lies?"

Yes, Phony documents from a phony Marine. Has the world turned upside down?!!


88 posted on 09/15/2004 10:11:40 AM PDT by Wristpin (Bloggers, forget your silly whim. It doesn't fit the plan!!)
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To: Pete
extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents

You can say that again, Dano. I hear the people driving this smear have almost unlimited "pajama money!"

89 posted on 09/15/2004 10:18:09 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: gunnygail

Rather was medically unfit, asthma, I believe it was. He never did complete recruit training with the Marines, yet he bills himself as a Marine. I doubt that sells well to real Marines.

Full details of Rather's short stint in the military are in Stolen Valor, a book I recommend highly. It also exposes some other parts of Rather and CBS's long history of using fake vets to smear real ones -- like CNN did with "tailwind," like AP's Elliot Minor did with Ahmad Majied.

Notice how many of these phonies show up on the left? Rather, Micah Wright, Harkin, Ahmad Majied (the AP's phony "SEAL" that FReepers were instrumental in exposing -- not that the AP corrected their lie), and of course, the king of the phonies, Kerry himself. And that's just in this election cycle.

After finding out that a 1988 Rather "documentary" used phonies to deliberately slime Vietnam vets, the then-head of CBS told an interviewer how proud he was of Rather for doing it. If you served in the military (and were more of a success than private Dan), these people hate you.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F


90 posted on 09/15/2004 10:18:21 AM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (Four Wannabee "Kills" in 2004 -- one more and I'm an ace! [all shared, of course. Takes teamwork].)
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To: hawaiian

I say, without a whole lot of respect, answer the questions put to you, Mr. Ra^th^er.


91 posted on 09/15/2004 10:18:55 AM PDT by Paul_B
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To: chicagoJ

This is exactly what I was thinking. Need a picture of Pyle getting ready to off himself.


92 posted on 09/15/2004 10:24:26 AM PDT by mund1011
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To: hawaiian

Dan I would Rather answer a question with a question. Everyone called your bullshit and now it is GWB time to tell the truth, nice try in attempting to shift the radar from yourself to GWB. CBS get it See B.S.


93 posted on 09/15/2004 10:29:48 AM PDT by erik22lax
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To: Nasty McPhilthy
[ Permission to slap the idiot, SIR? ]

LoL

94 posted on 09/15/2004 10:31:05 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: happydogdesign

95 posted on 09/15/2004 10:32:04 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 8 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: hawaiian
Maybe he should look in the mirror and ask questions.


96 posted on 09/15/2004 10:39:44 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 8 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: IamConservative

I sure hope Bush and company don't take this bait. Even aknowledging this question will let Dan off the hook.


97 posted on 09/15/2004 10:45:13 AM PDT by IamConservative (A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: dfwgator
"With respect: answer the questions,"

Yes Dan...with respect, answer the questions: "why did you publish those fraudulent documents.

98 posted on 09/15/2004 10:48:07 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Pax et bonum!)
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To: demlosers

Answer: The media is just about completely controlled and staffed with left-leaning types.

They will always support Socialism, welfare-statism, hard-line Communism, pro-Castro, pro-(former)-Sandanista types, any pro-Stalinist types, etc. They have no other option but to be leftist. They really can't help it.

On the one hand, they malign any Conservative candidate that comes along, yet on the other hand, they unconditionally and uncritically support any Leftist candidates. They can't help it. Leftist liberalism is as hard-wired into them as D.N.A is in an over bred, rabid dog.


99 posted on 09/15/2004 11:07:46 AM PDT by Bald Eagle777 ("Do not fire, unless fired upon.")
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To: hawaiian

Geeze, this is like someone asking Bush when he stopped beating his wife, and demanding that he answer the question, and getting offended when someone brings up that the question itself is bs.


100 posted on 09/15/2004 11:09:26 AM PDT by Green Knight (Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
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