http://11thcavnam.com/danrather/rather.htm
I'm trying to get a hold of other info but this seems genuine. Opinions?
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.
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