That's what I think is so great about this, Carolina. We . . . us . . . us uneducated, pajama-clad yokels are the baddest men and women on the political planet! 
Posted on 09/18/2004 1:58:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
We can't say when the obituaries of the CBS news division will finally be written, but we now know what it will say on the tombstone: "Fake But Accurate!"
The phrase first appeared in a September 15, 2004, New York Times article about CBS's "exclusive": Texas National Guard memos attesting to dereliction of duty by George W. Bush, memos supposedly typed in 1972 and 1973 but actually produced on a personal computer. All credit to the Times headline writer, but he was only crystallizing CBS's corrupt defense of its bogus story. Dan Rather admitted he'd been chasing the story for five years--proof that there was something in George W. Bush's National Guard record that would convince people not to vote for him. And he wasn't about to let a faked document or two get in the way. As he said when the memos were first questioned, "I know that this story is true."
We don't know, but we suspect, that when Rather wasn't pursuing his Great White Whale of a story, he was watching way too much Celebrity Poker. Because when Rather's memos got laughed out of court by millions of Internet-empowered fact-checkers, he didn't fold. Instead, he grabbed CBS's entire pile of chips and bluffed: "All in."
Bloggers have owned the CBS story from the start, so we'll give the last word here to our favorite, James Lileks: "The whole 'fake but accurate' line shows how tone-deaf these people are; it's like saying a body in a
pine box is 'dead but lifelike.' It boggles, it really does: the story is true, the evidence is faked, but the evidence reflects the evidence we have not yet presented that proves our conclusion--ergo, we're telling the truth. . . . Look. They're fake. CBS . . . pursued the story for years, and in the end they lost perspective, just as lousy pilots become disoriented in bad weather and think they're flying level when they're actually heading down at a 45 degree angle. . . . The fruit of the poisoned tree, baked in a nice pie, smashed in the face of the accuser."
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Hahahahaha!
Yes, it looks so life-like. Like wax fruit. (Waxed Fruits?)
Dan Rather's sprinkle system couldn't put out the forest fire started here at FreeRepublic!
Or, smell like plastic flowers.
Bump!
I seems like Dan's ears have grown even bigger since the "memo gate." I call him "Dumbo Blather."
Fake and Accurate are about as far apart as Good and Evil.
Opposites, just like Dan Rather and the truth.
That's what I think is so great about this, Carolina. We . . . us . . . us uneducated, pajama-clad yokels are the baddest men and women on the political planet!
Although the patient died, the operation was a success.
Bernie Goldberg summed it up best and didn't waste one word. Biased, and Arrogant. He wrote a book about each, and they are 100% true and accurate. Gunga Dan is the posterboy.
It's one of those multi-step processes:
1. "Unimpeachable"
2. "I know that this story is true."
3. We still think the story is true.
4. The story might yet be true.
5. We're still hoping the story is true.
6. We here at CBS want this story to be true.
7. Who really knows what "truth" means anyway.
Depends on what 'is' is......
Unfortunately, he could take fake, and inaccurate documents and get registered to vote.
Somewhere out there someone.....
is working really hard with a very old typewriter, some very old paper and a really skilled hand writing forger to come up with documents that can pass the smell test...I really believe this, otherwise Dan R. would have broken the story, as he said he would do, and 'fessed up that the docs he presented are fake. He is still going to come up with....better fakes. Mrs PD
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