Posted on 09/17/2004 11:41:33 AM PDT by Cableguy
CBS News anchor Dan Rather has always loved to be in the thick of the big story - whether that story was the Watergate scandal, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, or as recently as Labor Day, a hurricane bearing down on the United States.
He finds himself at the center of a very different storm today, however, as the public face of his network's recent story questioning George W. Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard. The report, which aired Sept. 8 on 60 Minutes, for which Rather served as the on-air correspondent, relied upon documents said to come from the personal files of Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian, the squadron commander. According to the report, Killian had complained in writing that Bush used connections to avoid fulfilling his military obligations. But the authenticity of those documents has come under sharp attack.
CBS stood resolutely behind the documents until Wednesday night, when it conceded that legitimate questions had been raised about their authenticity. And Rather's dual role as reporter and anchor has come under scrutiny -from conservative critics who have long said they perceive a liberal bias in his broadcasts and from journalists watching the network's defense unfold.
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By now, Dan Rather's gotta be as frustrated as a June bug in a barrel of pinto beans.
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I don't think these maroon's realize it yet, but that bus left the station last week, and it's still cruising.
Use bugmenot.com
Rather only confirmed what we've known for years, and CBS is complicit.
Dan biased, I am sure if you ask him, he will tell you some of his best friends are Republicans.
It is becoming very clear that he was using his position to push his political agenda!
See these:
This column is simply too fair and I sense a bias.
This story still didn't say "Dan Rather's documents were forged!"
All the wiggle room to protect the MSM.
I love this passive "happened to." Nobody else in the media was lining up to interview Ben Barnes, or run with these documents. Dan Rather pushed for this story, ran with it, and refused to allow any dissenting views on his broadcasts. He wasn't duped.
Nam Vet
Translation: Dan would prefer to go down swinging for the bleachers rather than settle for a base hit even if it meant his team might lose the game. Well, this time that very well might happen (though I don't it's going to).
First rule of getting out of a hole you have dug: Stop digging.
I looked up the Fedex tracking number on Rather's career, and that package has been delivered. He's DOOMED.
Congress members and their aides base their opinions and votes on these reports.
Congress is so easily lead to make these fake documents into law.
It's only been going on for fifty years.
Government is so intrusive now because of this.
Yet the people of FR are blowing their minds over a couple fake documents to bring down Bush.
While they're losing their freedoms.
I will give you one fact;
clean air act - there are eight scientists that sit on the EPA board.
Even though the reports were tilted on particle matters, their own scientists ruled that this is all made up.
Yet Carol Browner over ruled them and put in regulations that stiffens the rules on clean air.
Not one member of Congress voted for this.
This effects all trucks, cars, chemicals in America.
Not one word about this on FR, talk radio, but yet they are worried about a couple of forged documents.
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