Sweet!
Blame it on hubris and arrogance. Blather, CBS, and the rest of the MSM got away with slanted stories for so long that I think they believed they could actually pull this off.
We need to flush out the source(s). The best form of attack is to insist that the source is Rather's daughter, and that is why he is stonewalling. Rather will then switch into defense of his daughter mode, and rat out the source(s).
Background: Ben Barnes (who was part of the interview) knows Rather's daughter very well.
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.