Posted on 09/18/2004 2:41:25 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Steyn's thumbnail descriptions of Rather: double wide trailer with the panels falling off...priceless. The hokey suspenders and over the top intros to whatever idiot they drag in to prop up Rather's sorry behind. Steyn does a bangup job, so thanks for the great, great post. His point is deadly serious, and the media and congress had better pay attention.
That's the elephant in the living room, but we won't talk about that. No, with all due respect, the President had better answer those charges. Maybe they're hoping GW's landslide and whatever treat we have in store for Iran will divert our attention from this. Not going to happen.
How long before Rush names names?
Memogate links...
from http://www.washingtondispatch.com/page2/
September 16, 2004
Posted by CK Rairden at 01:34 PM | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
And while it’s still not crystal clear who fed him the memos, many are theorizing that is was retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett. Now we see that his attorney is David Van Os who is a former chairman of the Travis County Texas Democratic Party. By the way, Robin Rather (Dan’s daughter) is also big in Travis County Texas Democratic Party, and Dan Rather actually spoke at a fundraiser (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34557-2001Apr3) there in March [2001].
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from http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/002489.php
Posted by: jack risko at September 11, 2004 09:17 PM
Nor did we learn about Dan Rather’s personal fund raising efforts on behalf of the Travis County Democratic Party, where Ben Barnes sits on the Finance Council. Rather raised $20,000 for the organization on March 21, 2001. Rather has extensive personal ties to Travis county: he owns a home in the Austin area, and his daughter Robin, an environmentalist and marketing executive, is said to have considered running for mayor of Austin as a Democrat. Rather has sometimes now said that he attended the fundraiser as a favor to his daughter, but he told Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post on April 4, 2001 that he agreed to appear “at the invitation of an old friend, Austin City Council member Will Wynn.” Rather’s appearance at a Democratic Party fundraiser was contrary to the official policies of CBS and most of the MSM.
Now, three years later, Rather interviewed the same fellow without disclosing the reporter’s previous involvement in raising money for the Democratic Party of Travis County, or his other, even larger, conflict of interest. If Robin Rather wants to have a future in Democratic politics in Austin, she needs the support of Ben Barnes and the other movers and shakers among Travis County Democrats, including those on the Finance Council.
Dan Rather had no business conducting the interview with Ben Barnes because of his extensive conflicts of interests. Since he chose to do the interview anyway, at a minimum he should have disclosed his conflicts, or CBS should have done so for him.
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from http://www.madkane.com/wwwboard/messages/3280.html
One report describes Robin Rather as an environmentalist and "a likely candidate for Austin Mayor in 2006." Another report states that she lives in the same congressional district as the former Texas lieutenant governor and heavyweight Democratic contributor Ben Barnes. He is the man behind most of the charges about President Bush's service record. Potential mayoral candidates and heavyweight campaign contributors tend to mingle. And according to that second report, Robin Rather and Barnes worked together on Democratic party fundraisers--perhaps including that March 2001 event described above.
How about "danrather", to make it distinctive - and like algore :-)
I question the timing.
These are partisan attacks (as Bill Clinton's shills used to say.).
The scoop, when it comes, will probably be from Drudge sources. He is certainly the Pajamatola.
Exactly, they aren't covering for a disgrutled ex-guardsman who has it in for Bush. The only explanation for the cover-up is that they are protecting the "big fish" up the food chain of the DNC.
WMy writing hero Steyn, FreeRepublic and Buckhead all together...Can it get any better!
What CBS has to fear more than anything is another network doing some investigating and getting evidence the DNC provided the forged documents. Only CBS is still playing the game the documents aren't forged so ABC is under no moral obligation to defend CBS's right to keep the source a secret. In fact, ABC can argue that CBS is bringing down all the networks and needs to come clean. This could happen in the next 30 days easily.
I haven't heard this floated but... what if there are connections to the jihadists buried deep within this fiasco? Would it be that surprising?
Read the NY Times article posted in Breaking News.......Memogate goes into the Kerry Camp..
Yup, that is the big question and the answer is inCriminating with a Big Cee, as in Conspiracy.
I could not agree with you more...and watching this debacle play out I only wonder just exactly how contrived Watergate and CBS' role in THAT may have been....and if that is the leash Rather holds on his emplyer.....
That might be one outcome, but another is that this becomes so scandalous that any chance of Kerry "getting out the message" becomes impossible.
The last 6 weeks of the campaign become a media assault on the Texas DNC (clearly involved), the national DNC, and possibly/probably the Kerry campaign.
Here's the interesting thing: all of those involved know that Dan Rather could "out" them. The Kerry campaign knows that in one sentence, he could crush them
That puts Dan Rather in an interesting position, no?
And while CBS has 1st Amendment legal precedents ensuring that a libel lawsuit brought against it would be very difficult to win, the same cannot be said of their sources.
Any "source" who is openly repudiated as having given CBS false and defaming counterfeit documents is in DEEP legal trouble, which leads me to think his daughter is tied in with it (his daughter being a Dem party activist in Texas)
A new word has entered the lexicon. "Buckhead" - one who debunks nonsense and exposes frauds.
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