Guard Secretary, Flight Instructor Chip Away at CBS Story

Talon News ^ | 9/15/04 | Bobby Eberle and Jeff Gannon

[PokeyJoe]

Mapes will be fired.

Rather will resign.

[wildwood]

ha! another witness just like that stupid ben barnes democratic fundraiser from texas who lied about helping bush! they will SAY anything to trash him! man, are they DESPERATE or what!

bizarre..bizarre...bizarre...an 86 year old lady contradicting herself about conversations she never witnessed 30 years ago by a guy who's been dead for 20 years. can it GET ANY WORSE?

[wildwood]

JUMPED THE SHARK!!! (5 days ago actually)

[wagglebee]

Rather will resign.

My guess is that he will retire to save face.

[NavySEAL F-16]

See Post #19

[wildwood]

AND FURTHER....

last week, Knox said she had no firsthand knowledge of Bush's time with the Texas Air National Guard, although she did recall a culture of special treatment for the sons of prominent people, such as Bush and others.

it was a "CULTURE"...nothing overt...a CULTURE...she knows nothing specific but she FELT it was a CULTURE...BLAH!

[Rockpile]

"My guess is that he will retire to save face."

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NO NO NO !!! I don't want Gunga Dan to retire yet.

I want to see him crying on the air in the first week of November.

[randog]

In so many words, she claimed that the young pilots told her their innermost secrets and resentments. Of which she has total recall, 35 years later.

You'd be surprised. My mom is a retired school teacher and I'll occassionally run into grown adults that were in her 3rd grade class. I'll tell my mom about it later and she'll remember that person, who his brothers and sisters were and details about his personality, etc. She can't remember important details of my childhood but she sure remembers some kid she knew for 9 months 20 years ago.

[wagglebee]

Maybe if we're lucky, they'll find him in a "spider hole"

[daviscupper]

"People will be fired, the program loses its credibility and Dan Rather ends a distinguished career with his reputation besmirched," Grossman added.

Yes, I hope this happens sooner Rather than later.

[sandbar]

>last week, Knox said she had no firsthand knowledge of Bush's >time with the Texas Air National Guard, although she did >recall a culture of special treatment for the sons of >prominent people, such as Bush and others.

So they are accusing the President of the United States of a military criminal offense on the basis that an 86 year old woman's (that is probably too old to drive) OPINION of a CULTURE of special treatment. Not even an EXACT accusation of Bush, but a culture. Total BS all the way.

[Real Cynic No More]

The real issue is that Rather did not present these documents last week as questionable, he presented them as factual, authenticated documents. Now to change the story, he's been proven to have lied, and his own words convict him of that. He misled the viewers to get his point of view accepted to make a stronger, but false, case against Bush. If last week he had presented them as documents that had come to him, but that he could not attest to their validity, we would all be screaming "foul", Rather would still have been accused of being biased or partisan, but he wouldn't be accused of lying in a way that could make it stick. Well, that is not what he did. He presented one side of a story without presenting both sides to allow the public to decide. He, in his arrogance, decided himself for the "little people". That's why I like Fox News. The "We report, you decide" motto is what I like about it. When there are two sides, they present both sides.

If this were a criminal case in California, and Rather were the prosecutor, he would be censured by the court for not revealing that he had exculpatory evicence, that he was railroading an innocent defendant to prison.

[Paleo Conservative]

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