Well I will! She was lying when she said the other pilots talked about Bush missing drills, "they didn't like it". NO way would those guys bad mouth another pilot in front of the Old Man's secretary! In jest maybe, but military people, especially officers do NOT discuss such things that might get repeated to the boss, or that might sound disloyal to the unit.
The old gal reminded me of Newt Gingrich's Mother, when Connie Chung "chatted her up" and duped her into adding something extra to the interview. This woman might have typed up memos for her boss, but this is the same boss she said, "had fun with Bush", "liked him".
Dan coaxed and cajoled, and he lead her into the answers he had already prepped her to give. She was well prepared, which I suspect is what took so long today! Did you notice how she prefaced her most critical statements with "I want to say.....", or "I want to tell you......". The statements that followed that preface were always nasty digs at Bush, things that cannot be proven, aren't even relevant. We know she hates Bush, thinks he was "selected not elected", said he wasn't fit to lead, so those "extra" things she "wanted to say", were invented.
I think CBS/Rather is banking on the fact that republicans won't badmouth this little old lady, that they will be hurt in the polls if they do. She is perfectly willing to be used by CBS, but CBS was so blatantly editing out the other comments she has made to Texas newspapers. I'm willing to bet that as she was prepped for this taping, her story got progressively more negative toward Bush.
I've known mean old women like this, haven't you? They love to dish the dirt and that's what she was doing with Dan. Guaranteed, if Bush were a democrat, her tale to Dan would have been the exact opposite in tone.
Pompous, arrogant Dan Rather! I give it one news cycle before this performance tonight is thoroughly discredited by the media.
Rather spent 4 years working on this story. Why??? Becasue he wanted to discredit G. W. Bush. I'd say, Rather is even more obsessed with bringing down the president than this little old woman.
Let's not call her a liar. We need to IMPEACH her crediblity as a witness. I am probably the worst trial lawyer in the world (unless we are litigating issues of tax law), so don't look for me to do it. Treat her like any other witness...take her statements apart.
We don't have to get personal. We don't have to be mean. We merely need to show that she has made contradictory statements and that she has a partisan political bias...and that it looks like she is "enhancing" her memories with each telling of the story to make Bush look worse.