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STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER (UPDATE: Statement released)
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Posted on 09/20/2004 8:54:24 AM PDT by TheGeezer
Edited on 09/20/2004 9:07:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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EXCLUSIVE
STATEMENT FROM DAN RATHER:
Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 MINUTES WEDNESDAY story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in questionand their sourcevigorously. And we promised that we would let the American public know what this examination turned up, whatever the outcome.
Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point whereif I knew then what I know nowI would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.
But we did use the documents. We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism.
Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: badfaith; cbsnews; danrather; danron; dontbelieveaword; forgery; hedratherblather; killian; liar; meastupida; memogate; napalminthemorning; nonpology; rather; rathergate; rathertranscript; seebsnews; stainedbluememo
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To: cyncooper
David Blum on FOX says source of documents could still be Republican.
I think I am going to tear my teeth out.
To: TYVets
Wolf: This is a bonanza for CBS critics.
What it is, Wolf Blitzer, is evidence that the criticism has been justified. Not based on imagination or fantasy.
342
posted on
09/20/2004 9:40:22 AM PDT
by
cyncooper
(And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.)
To: SaveTheChief
Greenfield on CNN: "The guys in the pajamas were actually the real guerilla warriors..."
343
posted on
09/20/2004 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
mhking
("Honey, WHERE...IS...MY....SUPER SUIT?" --Samuel L. Jackson, "The Incredibles")
Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully. ^ fooling all of the people all of the time.
344
posted on
09/20/2004 9:40:54 AM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
(Remember, name and town, name and town, if you wish to opine)
To: Mo1
WTF???!?!?!
Burkett is saying he's "the source" but he is still protecting another "source"............
345
posted on
09/20/2004 9:41:05 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
(WHO MADE THE CBS MEMOS?!?!?)
To: TheGeezer
Dan Rather is a lying scumbag
To: mewzilla
Limbaugh: Someone gave the docs to Burkett, who gave CBS a false account of their origin.
So who forged the docs?
To: TheGeezer
So Burkett cops.
It took a week to cut the deal. He will cut out for the Party and for Dan. Sayonara.
To: TheGeezer
Media whitewash and spin in full effect, even on Fox. David Blum, author of "Tick...tick...tick" says CBS doesn't owe Bush an apology because we don't know if Rove is behind this. The next guest from the Wash. Post (Cohen) is saying that everybody makes mistakes. Unbelievable!
349
posted on
09/20/2004 9:41:56 AM PDT
by
cwb
(John Kerry: Still attacking Vietnam Vets after 35 years.)
To: Petronski
Greenfield on CNN had made some disparaging comment about Fox I guess (I missed it) but Wolf reminds him that Fox reported in 2000 about the Bush drunk driving arrest and Greenfield replied "Well, there's hope for us all".
CLICK
CNN off.
350
posted on
09/20/2004 9:42:20 AM PDT
by
cyncooper
(And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.)
To: YaYa123
That's for that report !
Rush is saying that "the source" (Burkett) is claiming he provided the documents to CBS .. but not saying he orginated them
OK BURKETT .. Where did you get the documents??
351
posted on
09/20/2004 9:42:51 AM PDT
by
Mo1
(Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
To: OXENinFLA
Burkett is saying he's "the source" but he is still protecting another "source"............Who is so radioactive that CBS would do this for him/her?
To: mewzilla
Right, CBS should be outing the whole story now. If they don't, then they have more to hide than they are saying.
To: cyncooper
Greenfield on CNN had made some disparaging comment about Fox I guess (I missed it) but Wolf reminds him that Fox reported in 2000 about the Bush drunk driving arrest and Greenfield replied "Well, there's hope for us all".Just damn.
I just turned away from CNN as well behind that crack.
354
posted on
09/20/2004 9:43:10 AM PDT
by
mhking
("Honey, WHERE...IS...MY....SUPER SUIT?" --Samuel L. Jackson, "The Incredibles")
To: mewzilla
Right, CBS should be outing the whole story now. If they don't, then they have more to hide than they are saying.
To: TYVets
Why doesn't CBS just come out and say it?
IT WAS A HIT PEICE STUPID !
356
posted on
09/20/2004 9:43:15 AM PDT
by
TYVets
To: dep
Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.Gloat. Schadenfreude.
& so forth...
:-)
357
posted on
09/20/2004 9:43:23 AM PDT
by
SerpentDove
(I love HDTV...now I can count Dan Rather's sweat beads.)
To: cyncooper
Wolf saying motive for this whole thing appears to be anti-Bush The steel-trap mind of the professional journalist, folks.
358
posted on
09/20/2004 9:44:19 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Souveniiiirs, noooovelties, paaaarty tricks...)
To: mewzilla
Who is so radioactive that CBS would do this for him/her?
I'll give you a clue..............he's a triple amputee.
359
posted on
09/20/2004 9:44:23 AM PDT
by
OXENinFLA
(WHO MADE THE CBS MEMOS?!?!?)
To: Pete
"The question, Dan, is why didn't you know then what you know now?!!" What he didn't know then that he does now, is that a whole bunch of people have caught on to the fact that he is a lying, America hating, say-anything-to-keep-DEMS-in-power, socialist, Castro-loving sad excuse for a newsman and he's trying to keep the last few clueless people from realizing that fact.
360
posted on
09/20/2004 9:44:31 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Liberalism is, as liberalism does.)
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